A full Bach Festival lineup highlights the Mass.Byline: The Register-Guard This year's 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, , which starts June 30 in Eugene, will feature a full-screen movie premiere of `The Sound of Eternity,' German filmmaker Bastian Cleve's cinematic interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor. Cleve's movie will be shown at the Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall as part of a full-orchestra and full-chorus performance of the famed B Minor Mass that will be conducted by festival artistic director Helmuth Rilling Helmuth Rilling (b. May 29, 1933)[1] is a German conductor. He was born in Stuttgart into a musical family. He received his early training in Protestant seminaries in Württemberg. . The two-hour movie consists of 27 short films that match the Mass's movements, with imagery of alpine glaciers and peaceful valleys, pulsating modern cities and majestic ancient architecture. Cleve, who directed and produced more than 40 short films in his native Germany, as well as film and television in Hollywood, said hearing the Mass for the first time 25 years ago `struck him like lightning,' an experience that turned into an obsession to bring the monumental music to the screen. `The Sound of Eternity' premieres Sunday, July 9. For purists, Rilling leads a music-only performance of the Mass in B Minor the next night in Eugene's new First Baptist Church First Baptist Church may refer to many churches: Canada
The festival will open with Robert Levin's new completion of the W.A. Mozart's Mass in C Minor, the first of four concerts that pay tribute to the Viennese giant in the year of the 250th anniversary of his birth. The Mass was left incomplete when Mozart died. For more than two centuries, it was recorded and performed only as a fragment. On commission from the Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall Concert hall in New York, N.Y., U.S. It was endowed by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie at the insistence of the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862–1950). Foundation, Levin, a Harvard-based musicologist mu·si·col·o·gy n. The historical and scientific study of music. mu  si·co·log and Mozart expert, assembled the clues that
enabled him to complete the work.
Rilling conducted the first performance of this completion in Carnegie Hall. Critic Allan Kozinn Allan Kozinn is a music critic for The New York Times. He received bachelor's degrees in music and journalism from Syracuse University in 1976. He began freelancing as a critic and music feature writer for the Times of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times called it `a glorious, fully Mozartean vision.' The music of Mozart flows through the festival this year, with pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane performing and conducting three of Mozart's piano concertos and a symphony in two concerts on July 2 and July 5. Also, Rilling will lead a performance of Mozart's Coronation Mass as part of the afternoon Discovery Series of lecture-concerts. The Requiem, another of Levin's Mozart restorations, is the festival's finale. Another festival highlight promises to be New York jazzman Uri Caine, who will bring a nine-piece group to the Hult Center on July 7 for ``The Goldberg Variations Reimagined.'' Caine will use Bach's classic set of variations as a departure point, interspersing the original compositions with his own voicings for horns, strings, gospel singers and a disc-spinning DJ. With masses from Bach, Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, Rilling opens the door for audiences to explore different moods, settings and forms of the central liturgical text. On July 14, he records F.J. Haydn's Creation Mass live as the first work in a multi-year CD project. Other events include the `Intimate Evenings' series of seven chamber music concerts: A piano recital by Levin on July 1 will include Felix Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses Op. 54, the Bach Aria Variata in A minor, and the Dutilleux Piano Sonata. Bach's Circle, a baroque ensemble, will perform July 3 Concerto in A Minor and Quartett in D Minor by Georg Telemann; Concerto in D Major, P.201 by Antonio Vivaldi; the Sonata for Flute and Continuo continuo or basso continuo In Baroque music, a special subgroup of an instrumental ensemble. It consists of two instruments reading the same part: a bass instrument, such as a cello or bassoon, and a chordal instrument, most often a harpsichord but sometimes in E Minor, BWV BWV Backwater Valve BWV Bachwerkverzeichnis (cataloging prefix for works of composer J.S. Bach) BWV Board Walk Villas (Disney resort) BWV Borderless World Volunteers 1034 by Bach; and other works. Russian classical virtuosos Trio Voronezh on July 8 will play a program of classical and Russian folk pieces. Soprano Maria Jette with oboist Allan Vogel and trumpeter Guy Few on July 12 will perform Bach's Wedding Cantata cantata (kəntä`tə) [Ital.,=sung], composite musical form similar to a short unacted opera or brief oratorio, developed in Italy in the baroque period. , cantatas BWV 84 and BWV 51 and the recently recovered Bach aria, ``Alles mit Gott.'' The Szymanowski Quartet, emerging classical stars from Poland, will give two performances. On July 13 they will play Mozart's String Quartet KV590, Karol Szymanowski's String Quartet Op. 56 No. 2, and Franz Schubert's String Quartet in G Major, D887. On July 15: an adagio a·da·gio adv. & adj. Music In a slow tempo, usually considered to be slower than andante but faster than larghetto. Used chiefly as a direction. n. pl. a·da·gios 1. and fugue fugue (fy  g) [Ital.,=flight], in music, a form of composition in which the basic principle is imitative counterpoint of several voices. by Mozart, Dmitry
Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3, and Beethoven's Quartet
Op.18 No. 2.
As for choral music, the festival lineup includes a showcase performance on July 6 by the high school singers of the Festival's Youth Choral Academy, conducted by Anton Armstrong of St. Olaf College An average of six St. Olaf students are awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship each year. Additionally, the college has produced three Rhodes Scholars since 1977. St. in Minnesota. Completing the schedule are more than a dozen free events including children's concerts, an organ recital series and meet-the-artist sessions. In all, the festival plans to present nearly 50 events over 17 days. Organizers anticipate 30,000 will attend concerts. OREGON BACH FESTIVAL What: Eugene's annual summer classical music festival When: June 30 to July 16 Tickets: Range from $12 to $49; tickets go on sale Tuesday at www .oregonbachfestival.com or by mail (call 800-457-1486 for a brochure and order form). It is not possible to order tickets by phone until May 9. |
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