{"id":35065,"date":"2016-09-02T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=35065"},"modified":"2016-09-07T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T20:43:01","slug":"30-years-bach-the-utah-baroque-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/30-years-bach-the-utah-baroque-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Bach: The Utah Baroque Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160424-UBE-Cathedral-of-the-Madeleine-026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35066\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160424-UBE-Cathedral-of-the-Madeleine-026-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"20160424-UBE - Cathedral of the Madeleine-026\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160424-UBE-Cathedral-of-the-Madeleine-026-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160424-UBE-Cathedral-of-the-Madeleine-026-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160424-UBE-Cathedral-of-the-Madeleine-026-900x601.jpg 900w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160424-UBE-Cathedral-of-the-Madeleine-026.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ask Martha Sargent, director of the Utah Baroque Ensemble, how the group began nearly 30 years ago and she smiles. It\u2019s a question she\u2019s heard often. \u201cThe choir really began with Douglas Bush and the Utah Bach Choir,\u201d she says, \u201cbut when Doug got too busy to continue leading the group, I was approached about taking over as conductor. I knew that an opportunity like this wasn\u2019t likely to come up again if I said no, so I agreed to direct the group even though I was busy raising my kids, teaching a lot of oboe students, and finishing up my master\u2019s degree at the time.\u201d Their first performance in Zion Lutheran Church in Salt Lake City saw a small audience of 12 people, but their audience has grown and continues to grow every year. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the profile in the<a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes\/16sep\/page1.html\"> September 2016 edition of 15 Bytes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask Martha Sargent, director of the Utah Baroque Ensemble, how the group began nearly 30 years ago and she smiles. It\u2019s a question she\u2019s heard often. \u201cThe choir really began with Douglas Bush and the Utah Bach Choir,\u201d she says, \u201cbut when Doug got too busy to continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":35066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-bytes","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160424-UBE-Cathedral-of-the-Madeleine-026.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 14:39:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35067,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions\/35067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}