The playing was masterful and the acoustics in Hill did it full justice, at least where I was sitting. I find Bach very elegant and cerebral and I found some of the visuals to be distracting and others essentially irrelevant. The only two that worked for me were in the middle part of the program: the woman holding and responding to a photograph; and what I interpreted to be a Japanese take on a mourning ritual.

However, I am so pleased that I went. Gil Shaham gave a wonderful performance.