About This Event

J.S. Bach’s 280-year-old musical tour de force is the basis of a modern-day “moveable feast” at Artisan Works, the grand art space on Blossom Road. Musicians from the Eastman School of Music and the Musikhochschule Freiburg, in small ensembles of varied instruments, will perform excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugue throughout the Artisan Works galleries.

Audiences are invited to wander among the 50 musicians and 500,000 art works, determining which ensembles to hear, whether to linger over art works, and when to find a quiet space for rest. Each set will last one hour (3-4 p.m. for families; 5-6:30 p.m. in general), beginning with a brief musical welcome, and ending with a grand finale. In between, the audience will experience aural harmonies and visual beauty in an aesthetically immersive space.

This event is a collaboration of the Eastman School of Music and the Musikhochschule Freiburg, and is funded through grants from the University of Rochester Humanities Project, the Mellon Foundation, and a private donor.