2002 Bach Festival ticket sales hit a record $450,000.Byline: The Register-Guard More than 30,000 people attended the 17-day Oregon Bach Festival The Oregon Bach Festival is an annual celebration of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, held in Eugene, Oregon in late June and early July. It was co-founded by German conductor Helmuth Rilling and the former president of the American Choral Directors Association, Royce Saltzman, . Ticket buyers came from 37 states, three Canadian provinces and Germany, Denmark and Korea. Altogether, ticket sales in 2002 reached $450,000, 10 percent more than the previous record. On stage, artists came from across the United States and Canada, Germany, France, England, Korea, Russia, Estonia and the Netherlands. Executive Director Royce Saltzman said next year's festival (June 27-July 13, 2003) will open with G.F. Handel's oratorio oratorio (ôrətôr`ēō), musical composition employing chorus, orchestra, and soloists and usually, but not necessarily, a setting of a sacred libretto without stage action or scenery. "Jephtha" and conclude with a pairing of J.S. Bach's Magnificat and W.A. Mozart's Mass in C Minor. In between will be two concerts featuring Ludwig van Beethoven's five piano concertos, performed by soloist-conductor Jeffrey Kahane, plus the second installment in the festival's Passion Project: the U.S. premiere of the Wolfgang Rihm's St. Luke Passion St. Luke Passion is a common English title referring to the passage in the Gospel of Luke describing the suffering and death of Jesus. The title often refers to compositions which have set all or some of the words of these passages to music. St. . Tickets will go on sale March 21. THE HULT CENTER for the Performing Arts The Hult Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts facility in Eugene, Oregon, opened in 1982. 27 architectural firms competed for the opportunity to design the Center, but in the end the Eugene City Council awarded the contract to the New York firm of Hardy will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a birthday party and open house on Sept. 21-22, during the Eugene Celebration. To get ready, the center's lobby will be closed from Aug. 12 to Sept. 15 while new carpeting is installed. During that period, tours will be suspended, the information desk will be closed and the box office will be relocated to the lower level, next to the Jacobs Gallery. Patrons should enter from the plaza between the Hult Center and the Eugene Hilton. THE CREATIVE MATERIAL GROUP of Eugene was scheduled to perform its multimedia work "reMEMBERING WILDE" at the Kings Lynn Arts Festival in Norfolk, England, on July 27. The travel troupe is headed by Leon Johnson, associate professor of art at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. . TRIO 335 - an unusual lineup of bassoon bassoon (băs  n`), double-reed woodwind instrument that plays in the bass and tenor registers. Its 8-ft (2.4-m) conical tube is bent double, the instrument thus being about 4 ft (1. , oboe oboe (ō`bō, ō`boi) [Ital., from Fr. hautbois] or hautboy (ō`boi, hō`–), woodwind instrument of conical bore, its mouthpiece having a double reed. and accordion - will
kick off a three-week tour of the Northwest and Canada with a free
concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave.
The trio's program will feature six movements from "Art of the
Fugue fugue (fyg) [Ital.,=flight], in music, a form of composition in which the basic principle is imitative counterpoint of several voices. " by J.S. Bach, which the ensemble recently recorded in its
entirety. The performers are oboist Amy Goeser, principal oboist of the
Wichita Symphony Orchestra; accordionist Heike Storm, a teacher and
clinician for young children in Munich, Germany; and bassoonist Steve
Vacchi, a member of the University of Oregon music faculty.
"COWGIRL HEAVEN," Springfield playwright Dorothy Velasco's musical about rodeo cowgirls in the 1920s, will be presented in a shortened version at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday, at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday and at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday in the courtyard at the Benton County Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. , 110 S.W. 53rd St., Corvallis. The musical's full-length version, directed by Reva Kaufman, premiered last year at Actors Cabaret of Eugene. MUSICAL FEET will present its annual variety show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Musical Feet, 420 W. 12th Ave. The performers will be students in jazz, tap, ballet, hip-hop and theater arts, ranging in age from 3 through adults and in levels from beginning through advanced. The show is free, but reservations should be made by calling 485-2938. ELRAY STEWART-COOK will play works by J.S. Bach, Cesar Franck, Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Gottfried Walther Johann Gottfried Walther (September 18, 1684 – March 23, 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin. at 4 p.m. today as one of the free 25th Anniversary Concerts at Central Lutheran Church, 1857 Potter St. Information: 345-0395. THE LANE ARTS COUNCIL has moved its offices to the Atrium Building, 99 W. 10th Ave., Suite 100. The phone number remains the same: 485-2278. |
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