Paul Taylor Dance Company Performs

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Paul Taylor Dance Company is a treasured Artistic partner of Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In the inaugural 2019 OSL Bach Festival, OSL was honored to present Paul Taylor’s complete works set to the music of Bach. Bach at Home offers three of these works: Mr. Taylor’s gallant Brandenburgs, an historic performance of Junction featuring Paul Taylor himself (with music of Bach’s Cello Suites), and a selection from Musical Offering, a rigorous, deeply intimate work

 

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Musical Offering

In his 1986 Musical Offering, Paul Taylor transformed this well-known Bach piece, composed at the request of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, into a profound requiem in motion, with movement…

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Junction

One of his earliest and most beloved works, Paul Taylor’s 1961 Junction juxtaposes abstract movements with selections from Bach’s Solo Suites for Cello. 

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Brandenburgs

Brandenburgs

The New York Times has praised Taylor’s work as possessing “downright beautiful moments in an increasingly dark world.”   Set to music of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 and No.…

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