Youth choirs will kick off the Bach Festival.Byline: The Register-Guard The Sanctus section of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Orban's new Mass No. 6 will be performed by the six choirs of the Pacific International Children's Choir Festival during the Oregon Bach Festival's opening ceremonies on Friday. The ceremonies, free and open to the public, begin at 6 p.m. in the Hult Center lobby. The combined choirs of the children's festival, known as PICCFEST, will be led by guest conductor Rebecca Rottsolk of Seattle. Members of the Oregon Mozart Players Oregon Mozart Players is a professional chamber orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. The orchestra presents six concert sets in a typical season, in addition to numerous small ensemble performances and recitals by guest artists. will accompany the choirs. The Pacific Youth Choir of Portland is this year's host choir. Other choirs, chosen by audition, are the Northwest Girlchoir Vivace, Arioso Girl Choir and Olympia Youth Chorus (from Washington), Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, city (1990 pop. 173,072), seat of Allen co., NE Ind., where the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers join to form the Maumee River; inc. 1840. It is the second largest city in the state, a major railroad and shipping point, a wholesale and distribution hub, Children's Choir (Indiana) and the Kansas Youth Choir. The choirs will perform together and separately during the annual PICCFEST, an Oregon Festival Choir event held in cooperation with the 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, . The choirs will demonstrate their abilities in a gala concert at 8 p.m. June 28 in the Hult Center's Silva Concert Hall. Tickets, at $10 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens, are available through the Hult Center box office (682-5000). All other PICCFEST concerts are free. Highlighting the festival - and featured during the June 28 gala concert - will be Orban's new Mass No. 6, written for treble voices. "The philosophy of the festival is noncompetitive, with the emphasis on making great music and new friendships rather than winning a trophy," says Peter Robb Peter Robb is an Australian author. He was born in Toorak, Melbourne in 1946 and spent his formative years in both Australia and New Zealand. Between 1978 and 1992 he spent most of his time in Naples and southern Italy, interspersed with sojourns in Brazil. , executive director and founder. "With the Oregon Bach Festival as the backdrop for the event, our goal is to provide a world class venue for the next generation of choral cho·ral adj. 1. Of or relating to a chorus or choir. 2. Performed or written for performance by a chorus. [Medieval Latin chor musicians and excite local families about the value of singing for all young people." For more information, call 465-9600 or visit www.piccfest .org. Here is the schedule: Thursday, June 24 7:30 p.m. - ``Sharing Our Songs I'' features Pacific Youth Choir, Olympia Youth Chorus and Fort Wayne Children's Choir. (Central Lutheran Church) Friday, June 25 6 p.m. - The individual choirs combine as the 170-voice Festival Chorus at the opening of the Oregon Bach Festival. (Hult Center lobby) Saturday, June 26 7:30 p.m. - "Sharing Our Songs II" features the Capella Girlchoir, Olympia Youth Choir and Kansas Youth Choir. (Central Lutheran Church) Sunday, June 27 Church services - The choirs will sing at six area churches during morning worship services: Central Lutheran Church, Central Presbyterian Church Located on the northeast corner of Brazos and Bois d'Arc (now Eighth Street), Central Presbyterian Church in Austin Texas traces its roots to the organization of the first Presbyterian church in Austin on Sunday, October 13, 1839. That event, conducted by Rev. , St. Mary's Episcopal Church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization , St. Mary's Catholic Church, Ebbert Memorial United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). and First Christian Church First Christian Church can refer to:
Monday, June 28 Noon - The Pacific Youth Choir and Oregon Festival Choirs will co-present an Oregon Bach Festival's "On-the-House" concert. (Hult lobby) 8 p.m. - The combined chorus and the Oregon Mozart Players give the gala concert. (Hult Center's Silva Hall) |
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