The mezzo Esther Brazil tells me that she has been part of the story of a portrait of J S Bach being returned to Leipzig, where an annual Bachfest celebrates the time the composer spent there. The portrait's last owner, American philanthropist William H. Scheide, died last November at the age of 100. He instructed in his will that the painting should fly home to Leipzig, Germany, where Bach spent the final decades of his life and where the Bach archive has its headquarters and a small museum.
Esther says "I sang with a small group in front of it in Princeton, at the house of the owner's widow, Judy Scheide, and then a few days ago I sang in front of it again with the same select group of Monteverdi Choir people at the event marking its installation at the Bach Arkiv in Leipzig."
You can read the whole story in the New York Times report and if your German is up to it the story from the Leipzig Bach archive.
Esther says "I sang with a small group in front of it in Princeton, at the house of the owner's widow, Judy Scheide, and then a few days ago I sang in front of it again with the same select group of Monteverdi Choir people at the event marking its installation at the Bach Arkiv in Leipzig."
You can read the whole story in the New York Times report and if your German is up to it the story from the Leipzig Bach archive.
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