Book Club: Pierre Laurent-Aimard

Vivo Performing Arts Book Club

Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment by James Gaines

To accompany Pierre-Laurent Aimard's performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Vivo Performing Arts Book Club
Virtual Event!

TUE APR 14
6:30PM-7:30PM
Hosted on Zoom

In Evening in the Palace of Reason, author James Gaines recounts the meeting between Johann Sebastian Bach, late in his life, and the energetic reformer Frederick the Great, King of Prussia.

Before pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard begins his journey through Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, you're invited to join in for a facilitated online one-hour discussion about the book and related topics.

Read part or all of the book selection: it's a jumping-off point for a lively and thought-provoking conversation!

The Book Club meetup will be hosted on Zoom, accessible on your phone, tablet, or computer. We'll send the Zoom room information in a reminder message a few days before the event, and the afternoon of.

Tickets for the performance are not required, and Mr. Aimard will not be involved.

“Gaines writes very accessibly…A marvelous story that will captivate the classical music audience.”
Booklist

“Highly entertaining… Lovers of music, European history, and Western philosophy will find this book an enormous pleasure.”
Library Journal (starred review)