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The Carmel Bach Festival searched for a little girl from a 1975 photo. She responded.
831 (Tales from the Area Code)

The Carmel Bach Festival searched for a little girl from a 1975 photo. She responded.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Jul 17, 2025

Earlier this year, the Carmel Bach Festival team posted a photograph on social media, asking if anyone recognized a little girl featured in th…

The Carmel Bach Festival spotlights the musical genius of interconnected eras.
Opinion

The Carmel Bach Festival spotlights the musical genius of interconnected eras.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Jul 13, 2025

Agata Popęda here, in the mood for Bach. One iconic local annual event, the Carmel Bach Festival, has already started, but thanks to the fact …

The Carmel Bach Festival pays homage to three historic compositions crafted during a time of political and personal upheaval.
Cover story
Centerpiece

The Carmel Bach Festival pays homage to three historic compositions crafted during a time of political and personal upheaval.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Jul 10, 2025

…Written within a span of less than a hundred years, they are part of the same story.…

There's plenty to experience in the Carmel Bach Festival's lineup. Here are some highlights.
Cover story

There's plenty to experience in the Carmel Bach Festival's lineup. Here are some highlights.

  • Paul Fried
  • Jul 10, 2025

“It’s a great opportunity for concertgoers to hear this work on the instrument it was originally written for…”

The Carmel Bach Festival brings back favorites and welcomes new talent into the fold.
Cover story

The Carmel Bach Festival brings back favorites and welcomes new talent into the fold.

  • Paul Fried
  • Jul 10, 2025

On full display this year is the nyckelharpa – far and away one of the most unusual instruments you’ll ever hear or see anywhere…

With nature and 300 years of music in tow, The Bowerbird Collective returns to Carmel.
Music

With nature and 300 years of music in tow, The Bowerbird Collective returns to Carmel.

  • Agata Popęda
  • May 29, 2025

The Bowerbird Collective first performed locally in 2022 at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel. This resulted in an invitation to r…

Who is classical music for? The 2024 Bach Festival invites us to widen the audience.
Newsletter

Who is classical music for? The 2024 Bach Festival invites us to widen the audience.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jul 11, 2024

Sara Rubin here, listening to a recording of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, perhaps one of the most recognizable classical music pieces t…

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  • Jul 20, 2023

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The Carmel Bach Festival is a month-long experience for the musicians -- and a two-week, joyful dilemma over what to choose for the rest of us.
Music

The Carmel Bach Festival is a month-long experience for the musicians -- and a two-week, joyful dilemma over what to choose for the rest of us.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Jul 13, 2023

The Sunset Center in Carmel is many things to many people – a stage for large concerts and author interviews, an art gallery, and a garden par…

The Bach Festival’s new artistic director combines classical mastery with a creative and subversive passion
Face to Face

The Bach Festival’s new artistic director combines classical mastery with a creative and subversive passion

  • Christopher Neely
  • Oct 27, 2022

When Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen walked out onto the stage for her first set at the Carmel Bach Festival in July 2022, her long strides…

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