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DESCRIPTION:The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival's third season concert offers a visual and 
 sonic journey through the cosmos with Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue, 
 performed by the Galax Quartet. A culmination of musical science and 
 enigma, Bach's last and unfinished work will be accompanied by a visual 
 space voyage showing recent views of the galaxy from earth and space, 
 curated by renowned UCSC astronomer Raja GuhaThakurta.\n \nProgram 
 Information: To many modern-day music enthusiasts Bach's Art of Fugue 
 (Kunst der Fuge) represents the culmination of counterpoint as musical 
 science, as well as being an aesthetically beautiful work. Yet to many the 
 complexities of this compositional genre also yield a sense of mystery, or 
 a crossing point between the scientific, the artistic, and the spiritual. 
 The Art of Fugue's eminence if perhaps amplified by circumstance of Bach 
 having been a life-long church musician and it being his last and 
 unfinished work. But what more appropriate counterpart to the "Art of 
 Fugue" than the study of the stars? Primarily created for scientific 
 purposes, the telescopic images shown as part of this presentation are 
 colorful works of galactic art, and can hardly fail inducing awe and 
 curiosity. Too add to this parallel, these images, due to the unimaginable 
 distances involved, provide snapshots of time from many years in the past, 
 not unlike the centuries-old music being performed. Yet – to close this 
 conceptual circle - in Bach's time the discoveries of Galilei, Kepler, and 
 Newton were still echoing from the very recent past. The visual space 
 journey presented at this concert will be specially arranged by UCSC 
 astronomer Raja GuhaThakurta, and facilitated by Ph.D. student Evan Kirby. 
 Providing the vehicle for musical travels through the Art of Fugue is the 
 Galax Quartet with David Wilson and Katherine Kyme (violins), Roy Wheldon 
 (viola da gamba), and David Morris (cello). The Galax Quartet was founded 
 in Oakland in 2005. This particular quartet combination was derived from 
 the practice of Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), the last of the great 
 viola da gamba virtuosi. With this collaboration of scientific and artistic 
 forces, we invite you to come and hear Bach's final masterwork in truly new 
 light! A question-and-answer session follows the concert.\n \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Cosmos: The Art of Fugue - a journey through space and time
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall, UCSC Campus\nHeller & Meyer Drives\nSanta Cruz, 
 CA 95064
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/25/18582357.php
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