IN THE NEWS

M on Dieu! "The French Connection" comes to the Carmel Bach Festival this summer. Tickets go on sale Friday for the 76th Carmel Bach Festival, which takes place July 13-27.

Maestro Sandor Salgo — who led the festival for 36 years — once quipped, "Bach was a good Frenchman." Read More >

The year-long toil of administrative work and planning, including travel, scheduling, logistics and housing; the months-long search for a new executive director; the endless fundraising; the rehearsals and programming and historical research; it all began its two-week culmination last Saturday at the opening concert of the 75th Carmel Bach Festival. Read More >

David Gordon, who lives in Carmel Valley, is the Carmel Bach Festival dramaturge and lecturer. He's been with the festival for 24 seasons – “which is sobering,” he jokes – singing tenor in 80 of its concerts and working under three of its four music director/conductors. In other words, per his job – and his passion – he knows everything. Read More >

The opening Saturday performance of last year's Bach Festival, inside the acoustic chapel ribcage of the Sunset Center, served as introduction to the festival's new music director and conductor, Paul Goodwin, and his concertmaster, Peter Hanson. The program ranged from a suite of sinfonias by Johann Sebastian Bach to Franz Josef Haydn's The Seasons, but the most telling moment came in the middle ... Read More >