Senior Bach Week

[Anonymous]

Mom of rising senior and curious about Bach week. Keep hearing about kids going to places like the Bach Festival at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall.

Do they typically have chaperones?

[Anonymous]

I was here for the typo. Well done, OP.

[Anonymous]

The place to be for Bach week is in Bethlehem PA. Can't believe they have hosted such a raucous event for well over a 100 years.

https://bach.org/2025-festival/

[Anonymous]

LOL, OP!

The Eugene, OR Bach Festival is a regular bacchanal. And bonus: you can get 15% off your weed purchase at a local dispensary if you wear Ducks gear!

https://oregonbachfestival.org/

Before your kids go, talk to them about consent. Teach them to be comfortable saying, “Don’t touch my organ.”

[Anonymous]

The rich kids go to Bachfest in Leipzig.

[Anonymous]

I needed this laugh today. Gotta love some music nerdy teens!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL, OP!

The Eugene, OR Bach Festival is a regular bacchanal. And bonus: you can get 15% off your weed purchase at a local dispensary if you wear Ducks gear!

https://oregonbachfestival.org/

Before your kids go, talk to them about consent. Teach them to be comfortable saying, “Don’t touch my organ.”

OMG thank you for this!

[Anonymous]

Well there's always the Washington Bach Consort. See for yourself whether you would let your teens go without you.

https://bachconsort.org/

(Anyway, appreciate the thread. I have happy memories of taking my teens to a performance of the B minor mass).

[Anonymous]

Just be sure to read the fine print when helping your child book their reservations for Bach week. I wasn't careful and DD ended up with tickets to the CPE Bach Festival instead and had to stay at a Motel One in Hamburg that she says was full of creepy clavichord players. She still hasn't forgiven me.

[Anonymous]

Also be careful about Bach concerts in Germany in the winter. There’s Gluhwein flowing around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL, OP!

The Eugene, OR Bach Festival is a regular bacchanal. And bonus: you can get 15% off your weed purchase at a local dispensary if you wear Ducks gear!

https://oregonbachfestival.org/

Before your kids go, talk to them about consent. Teach them to be comfortable saying, “Don’t touch my organ.”

OMG thank you for this!

In full disclosure, I stole that last joke from TwoSet Violin’s genius and hilarious video:
https://youtu.be/MomYN46jnVs

[Anonymous]

Before your DC gets too interested in Bach weeks, please consider the following:

- JSB is reported to have pulled a dagger on a bassoonist during a scuffle

- JSB was put in jail by the Duke of Weimar for "having too stubbornly forced the issue of his dismissal"

- JSB was reproached by the town council about having a "strange maiden make music with him in the organ loft"

- JSB wrote a cantata about a girl's addiction to a caffienated beverage

Then again, I played JSB's music a teenager and turned out relatively ok

[Anonymous]

While I know this is a joke, I have a teen who would honest-to-god would rather go to Bach week than Beach week, so I am kind of bummed this is not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I know this is a joke, I have a teen who would honest-to-god would rather go to Bach week than Beach week, so I am kind of bummed this is not a thing.

But there are music camps that take place in late June. DD used to do the one at George Mason. There was also one called Blue Ridge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was here for the typo. Well done, OP.

+1. And was not disappointed.