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Reviews
WASHINGTONIAN
Break for Lunch with Bach
April, 2010
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WASHINGTON POST
Christmas in January
January 12, 2010
The Washington Bach Consort celebrated the recent holiday season Sunday with an exciting "International Christmas" program of choral, organ and harp music directed by J. Reilly Lewis at the National Presbyterian Church..."
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WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE
Anne Midgette's Pick: An International Christmas
December 20, 2009
Washington's professional Bach departs slightly from it's main mandate for a holiday concert of composers from around the continent...
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WASHINGTON POST
Savor sacred sounds in a sacred space
November 26, 2009
Bach's sacred cantatas are a gift that keeps on giving. He wrote more than 300, of which around 200 survive; chances are, you know no more than a handful of them. ...
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HILL RAG
Washington Bach Consort: Bringing Bach Back to Life
October, 2009
The power of live orchestral and chorale music has become a luxury, or at least a special occasion, for most of us. With its evening events, free cantatas, and student outreach, Washington Bach Consort (WBC), conducted by Dr. J. Reilly Lewis, offers everyone a chance at this moving experience.."
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WASHINGTON POST
Bach Consort and Lewis, Again Transcendent
October 6, 2009
Once again the Washington Bach Consort's performance of Bach's monumental B Minor Mass...was a transcendent one."
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Credo J. Reilly Lewis
September 20, 2009
J. Reilly Lewis serves God with his music, filling Washington's grandest spaces with the chords and choirs imagined by the world's great composers.
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WASHINGTON POST:
Bach's Organ Mass Proving Great, Indeed
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
This piece is the jewel of jewels, at once glorious to hear and architecturally astonishing as it winds its way through an unbelievable mixture of styles and forms....
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WASHINGTON POST:
Washington Bach Consort
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Every year, the Washington Bach Consort's Christmas program proves a refreshing break from the sugary ... fare one finds at most of the city's other choral holiday concerts ...
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WASHINGTON POST:
'St. Matthew Passion:' A Heavenly Sound
Tuesday, May 13, 2008; Page C03
The hard work showed in a performance that captured the work's power while embracing the principles of contemporary early music. ...
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WASHINGTON POST:
Back Is Instrumental to Consort's Success
Thursday, January 24, 2008; Page C07
Timothy Haig and June Huang's violin partnership unfolded with increasing emotional momentum as their interweaving lines echoed each other in a transfixing manner. ...
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WASHINGTON POST:
Washington Bach Consort
Saturday, September 29, 2007; C05
From start to finish, this chamber-size group of choristers, orchestra and soloists -- both vocal and instrumental -- made that leap beyond human abilities, which Bach demands, with compassion, tonal beauty and a sense of inevitable momentum...
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WASHINGTON POST:
Washington Bach Consort Hits a Milestone, Beautifully
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
the consort's chorus soared and danced through Bach's exalted counterpoint and blended lushly for the dramatic a cappella passages in the finale of BWV 63...
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