For 27 years, the Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival has been staging concerts in Fredonia, Mich., featuring some of the world's top classical musicians.
This year, it ended with a sold-out show on Sunday, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The concert featured Aika Ito on violin, Jeremy Hill onviolin, and Brian Walnicki onviola, performing works by Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach, 19th-century composer Bohuslav Martinu, and contemporary composers.
The program "perfectly encapsulated these themes with a blend of Baroque masterpieces, 20th and 21st-century compositions, and a young cellist featured in a world-premiere performance," the festival's general manager said in a press release.
The program also included the world premiere of Vergessenheit for solo violoncello, written by Grant Cooper in 1953 and performed by young cellist Alexander Pegis on Sunday.
"His performance captured the essence of the composition, conveying a strong sense of introspection, with a touch of whimsy, that left a profound impact upon me as I considered its place within the totality of musical offerings delivered to our community over the past 27 years," Cooper wrote in his program note.
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