Music director and pianist, Jeffrey Kahane steps out from behind the podium with a rare solo performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, a piano recital benefitting the SA Philharmonic.

The work we know today as the Goldberg Variations ranks among the supreme masterpieces of the entire keyboard repertoire. An astonishing, encyclopedic display of the keyboard styles and genres of Bach’s day, it is also a profound inward spiritual journey which traverses the gamut of human experience: joy, uproarious humor, deep sorry, and transcendence.

This is part of a multi-year project in celebration of the music and influence of J.S. Bach, a composer who stands at the fountainhead of Western classical music and whose influence on the history of music is as profound as any musician who has ever lived.