Please don't send your kid to Bach week unless you are sure they are Well-Tempered and can Handel it. It's not all minuets and gigues. By the time they get home, they’ll be fugued up and mentally baroquen.

It's a nice event, but the food is pretty limp for all that you pay. Breakfast is just a bowl of Concertos, which is not enough if you've been drinking.

I went when I was a senior. I was in a fugue state the entire time.

Anonymous wrote:Will Branderburgers be served during Bach Week?

They have the wurst food you can imagine.

Will Branderburgers be served during Bach Week?

Anonymous wrote:I'd be careful about this. It starts with Bach, but studies show it might lead to experimentation with Mahler or Shostakovich.

Or worse. This is why I don't understand why any sane parent allows their kid to go to Bach week, at least not without an adult chaperone.

Does Bach Week conflict with Mostly Mozart? My kid doesn't want to choose.

I'd be careful about this. It starts with Bach, but studies show it might lead to experimentation with Mahler or Shostakovich.

Anonymous wrote:Remember to buy yourself a ticket. The conductors will deny entry to any group that does not have at least one adult per group.

You can get around this if at least one of the kids wears a large white powdered wig.

Anonymous wrote:Why was this thread locked and then reopened?

I believe Jeff glanced at the subject line and thought it was a duplicate of an existing beach week thread. I posted in the Website Feedback forum, explained to him and asked him to reopen this. And he did!

So now the thread is Bach.

Do schools still do this? My friend's district used to make a big thing out of Bach Week and the whole thing turns into a gaudy sh*tshow with kids talking about how much money their parents spent on their harpsichords.

Anonymous wrote: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).

I don’t know if I want my DC consorting with anyone in Washington. I think that opens them up to a neverending series of concertos. Practically Bach-to-Bach.

Why was this thread locked and then reopened?

Remember to buy yourself a ticket. The conductors will deny entry to any group that does not have at least one adult per group.