Tom Allen: JS Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow | Canmore Kananaskis

Tom Allen: JS Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow

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Feb 27 - Feb 27 - 12:00am

Beloved CBC Radio host Tom Allen returns to artsPlace with another in his series of musical storytelling concert experiences, JS Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow.

Johann Sebastian Bach is usually seen as the wise, old man of Western Music, but he didn’t begin his working life that way. At 18, and in his first job as an organist, still barely beginning life as a composer but already a spectacular performer, the young genius got into such trouble that the only thing he could do was to walk away. JS Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow takes you along on that trip: a 400 km odyssey to a glittering northern port city with street fights, big business, insight, fulfillment, the father figure he didn’t know he needed and, quite possibly, love.

With glorious music – both familiar and gripping – from Tom and a various cast of brilliant musical friends, JS Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow brings that troubled young man in from the cold.

The event starts at 7.30 PM.

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