The 42nd Oregon Bach Festival takes place June 29–July 15 in Eugene, Portland, and five other cities. Conductor Helmuth Rilling, violinist Joshua Bell, keyboardist Angela Hewitt, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and harpsichordist/conductor Matthew Halls explore Bach’s Goldberg Variations and St. Matthew Passion. On July 6–7 in Portland and Eugene, Matthew Halls conducts Michael Tippett’s choral work A Child of our Time. The festival marks birth and death anniversaries of Glenn Gould in concerts, talks, and two films that explore the Goldberg Variations. In all, the festival present 60 events, nearly half of them free. For information:
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