Bach And His Era — Lecture-Concert

23/07/2025, 20:00

Rootsi-Mihkli Kirik (Rüütli 9, Tallinn, Eesti)

🎵The Code of Eternity🎵

The music of Bach conceals the mysteries of the universe 🔍. Each fugue is a mathematical formula of beauty, each prelude—a coded message from the past to the future.

What if music is the language in which God speaks to people? What if, woven into the melodies, are answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask?

Tonight, the mysteries will be revealed. A legendary professor from the Juilliard School will guide you through the labyrinths of Bach’s genius. You will hear how the composer inscribed his own name into the very fabric of music, how polyphony becomes philosophy.

And at the end... a mystery guest 🎭 will remove their mask, and Bach’s music will sound as you have never heard it before.

One night. Three centuries. An infinity of 🎵discoveries🎵.

What is the secret behind the centuries-long popularity of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music?

Did you know that Bach’s music is full of mathematical formulas, equations, anagrams, and coded messages? How did Bach encode his own name into the main theme of the Fugue? How does the polyphonic thread of Bach’s music blend perfectly with its harmonic foundation?

These and many other questions will be answered in the unique lecture-concert "Bach and His Time," presented by the legendary violinist and educator, Professor Lewis Kaplan of the Juilliard School in New York. Together with Professor Kaplan, festival artists will also attempt to unravel Bach’s mysteries:

American piano virtuoso, Artistic Director of the “In the Embrace of Classics” Festival, Michael Bulychev-Okser.

Young prodigy from America, 13-year-old pianist and organist Alisa Sorochan, also representing Ukraine.

Violin virtuoso from China, Xing Bai.

And also a specially invited mystery guest, one of the most popular musicians of our time. He will remove his mask only after performing a work by Bach.