S. Salem’s Sanctuary Series in your home

S. Salem’s Sanctuary Series in your home: Acclaimed keyboardists, Anthony Newman and Mary Jane Newman, celebrated their new CD release with a recital featuring the great preludes and fugues of J.S. Bach arranged for two pianos, at South Salem Presbyterian Church on November 10, 2019. Now you can see their performance on YouTube.

The recital was part of the Sanctuary Series’ sixth season. The Sanctuary Series, headed by Artistic Director Jane Newman and Chaired by Dean Travalino was designed to bring exceptional keyboard performances to the heart of the historic hamlet of South Salem.

Wynton Marsalis called him “The High Priest of Bach”

Labeled the “High Priest of Bach” by Wynton Marsalis, keyboardist and composer, Anthony Newman, is considered by many to be America’s leading Bach specialist  His wife, Sanctuary Series Artistic Director, Mary Jane Newman, herself an acclaimed pianist and organist, made her New York debut in 1986 in Lincoln Center’s “Great Performers” series at Alice Tully Hall. Since then she has performed and conducted with orchestras, chamber ensembles and vocal groups throughout Europe, the U.S. and Israel.

Dr. Newman also performs six times a year with top Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall musicians in his Bedford Chamber Concerts series on Wednesday nights at St. Matthews Episcopal Church from October through May. Dr. Newman has performed at Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center more than 60 times and has collaborated with Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Leonard Bernstein and Eugenia Zukerman. He conducted and arranged In Gabriel’s Garden, the best selling classical music album of 1997, for Wynton Marsalis and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. And he has performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos with the Lincoln Center Chamber Ensemble during the holidays twelve times.

Dr. Newman is a local treasure and we put his area recitals on our Bucket List in 2017. See him perform with his acclaimed wife Jane Newman in an evening of four-handed piano  here and you’ll be sure to put him on your Bucket List too.

Anthony Newman Bedford’s High Priest of Bach

The Program:

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C Major BWV 553
Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541
Fantasies and Fugue in g minor BWV 542
Prelude and Fugue in f minor, BWV 534
Toccata in F, BWV 540 (organ)

Prelude and Fugue in C Major BWV 547
Prelude and Fugue in c minor BVW 546
Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV 565
Pastorale in F Major  BWV 590