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Evening Movies & Theatre.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
For the past two nights, the NEH Bach participants have enjoyed our showing of a French film on Bach’s life, The Life of J. S. Bach, and our reading of Ithamar Moses’ play, Bach in Leipzig. Both events were laced with a good deal of laughter, fun, and interesting conversation.
Monday’s movie was a dramatized telling of Bach’s life, brought to life by French actors, speaking French, with German narration and the occasional English subtitles. We had our German speaking participants provide a translation, while our non-speaking ones provided an even more poignant (and hilarious) ones. We laughed at the portrayal of young Bach, sighed with Buxtehude’s daughter, and cried at how Bach died before ever making it to Potsdam.
Afterward, we ran a rehearsal for the play, a comedy in which Bach doesn’t even make an appearance. This group has gone over the top this year, adding props like sheet music, swords, and an organist! Telemann donned his bed-sheet cloak, and our director worked out some of the more ridiculous scenes.
On Tuesday, our other participants were brought to tears with hysterical laughter over our production. Unfortunately, it is impossible to describe the evening... torrents of applause interspersed with shouts of bravo greeted every scene, as the wit inherent in the text was amplified by our excellent actors and actresses.
I doubt I have laughed so hard in my life.
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