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The two-week-long Carmel Bach Festival turns 74 years old this week, and it just got younger. That’s thanks to a guard change at the top of the artistic slots, including incoming Music Director and Conductor Paul Goodwin and Concertmaster Peter Hanson, both Brits who’ve worked with each other for a long time in Europe and England. It’s also by the design of the festival’s director, Camille Kolles.
American composer John Adams once said, of the 1983 debut of his Grand Pianola Music at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall: “A large part of the audience quite aggressively booed it. It virtually sticks its tongue out and wags its ears at the extreme good breeding and extreme good taste of ‘high art,’ which is something that had become so oppressive, so intimidating, that it was threatening its own extinction.”
When Adams’ statement was relayed to Kolles, she connected immediately.
“I’ve been trying build a bridge for classical music to reach the wider population for 18 years,” she says. “I want to build that bridge. That’s when the music comes alive.”
She got the opportunity in 2008, when she became the executive director of the Carmel Bach Festival. And the opportunity compounded with the recruitment of Goodwin, following the departure of Bruno Weil last year after a 19 years as the festival’s music director and conductor. It’s a new era for the festival: In its three-quarter-century history, Goodwin is only the fourth music director/conductor it has seen.
New Concertmaster Peter Hanson, Goodwin’s right-hand man in their first foray as artistic leaders of an American classical music festival, describes Goodwin’s conducting style, which informs his curatorial style, too, as flexible: “Paul’s very free, open-minded, not dogmatic. He goes with the flow. He likes creating exciting situations.”
That attitude flows with the festival’s direction toward accessibility, fusion, quality, youth, relevance, vibrancy and fun. It’s an evolution that brings centuries-old music into the 21st century and makes the two play together. To a classical music-loving home base like Carmel, in possession of a storied musical tradition like the Carmel Bach Festival, finding the balance between the fresh (luring, inspiring and replenishing the audience) and the traditional (the supportive, established base who have sustained the festival this far) can be tricky.
“Our goal,” Kolles says, “is to transcend traditional concert presentation boundaries while still celebrating the works and genius of Bach.
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