{"id":21657,"date":"2022-07-19T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21657"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T01:34:38","slug":"going-for-baroque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/going-for-baroque\/","title":{"rendered":"Going for Baroque"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e3e3e3&amp;d=finalpdfs07_18_22&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=76&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It <b>wouldn\u2019t be summer<\/b> in Maine <b>without<\/b> <b>lobster<\/b>, lighthouses, beaches\u2026and <b>Bach<\/b>!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">INTERVIEW BY LILY RANDALL<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">B<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ach Virtuosi Festival<\/strong> founder and director <strong>Lewis Kaplan<\/strong> lets us in on what\u2019s in store this summer, <strong>Bach<\/strong>\u2019s drinking habits, and what keeps him coming back to <strong>Maine<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Why did you choose Portland as the home for the Bach Virtuosi Festival?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">I co-founded the <strong>Bowdoin International Music Festival<\/strong> in 1964 and guided it for 50 years. After stepping down as Director in 2014, I grew restless. I wanted to devote myself to <strong>Bach. Portland<\/strong> is a vibrant and growing community where the audiences are outstanding and appreciative. I felt the festival and Portland were a good match.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BachInterview1-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"BachInterview1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BachInterview1-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BachInterview1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BachInterview1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BachInterview1-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BachInterview1-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BachInterview1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn\u2019t be summer in Maine without lobster, lighthouses, beaches\u2026and Bach!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1204],"class_list":["post-21657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-julyaugust-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21676,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657\/revisions\/21676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}