june 1,1983
distract
emerald arts & entertainment supplement
Classical festival
grabs national ear
By Julie Shippen
Of tha Emerald
Oregon Bach Festival’s beginning in 1970 was a
humble one. Consisting of a sole performance and
two workshops, the event was hardly what might be
called remarkable, even on a local scale.
This year the Eugene’s 14th Annual Oregon
Bach Festival has the nation by the ears.
Major American orchestral players, world
famous singers, and a multitude of local musical
talent make up what should prove the Festival’s big
gest and best year.
Starting June 20 and running through July 3, the
Festival is packed with solo recitals, lectures and
concerts.
But executive director Royce Saltzman, the
energy behind this year’s undertaking, didn’t stop
there.
The Bach Festival was previously housed entire
ly in Beall Concert Hall on campus. This summer the
Hult Center’s 2,500-seat Silva Concert Hall will hold
the major concert presentations. The move will put
the Festival in an international spotlight.
The world-wide recognition the Oregon Bach
Festival will likely achieve should come as no sur
prise as Principal Conductor Helmuth Rilling is
already internationally known.
Rilling has been with the Festival since its beginn
ing, and this year he will again bring his deep
understanding and sensitivity to the Bach
performances.
Concerts to be held at 8 p.m. at the Hult Center
for the Performing Arts include Bach’s “Magnificat,”
“Mass in G Major," and “Mass in B Minor.” For
Brahms enthusiasts, "German Requiem," “Alto
Rhapsody,” “Rinaldo," and two evenings of chamber
music commemorate Brahms’ 150-year anniversary.
Ticket prices are $6.25 to $15.25 for single tickets
and $127.50 for the entire series.
Series I of noon recitals, each preceded with a
lecture by Rilling, will be held in Beall Concert Hall
for no charge. The Series II Cantatas will be held at
5:15 Monday through Thursday evenings both weeks
— the first week at Beall and the second week at the
Hult Center. General admission tickets for the Can
tatas are $1 and $11 for the entire two week series.
Other special events include a Bach's Supper
Thursday, June 30, at 6 p.m. and Friday afternoon lec
tures June 24 and July 1, each at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets are still available at the University’s
School of Music Box Office and will become
available June 6 at the Hult Center. For more informa
tion, call 687-5000.
Bach Festival
Fun-filled summer
includes concerts
Music festivals add spice to summer fun
Concerts cover it ail — classical, jazz and bluegrass programs ready to go
By Julie Shippei
Of tfM Emarak)
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Whatever your idea of the perfect summer,
add the finest in classical, jazz, or bluegrass
music the Northwest has to offer, because
Oregon is hosting three of the best music
festivals this summer — all only a day s drive
away.
If you favor a “hot August night" in the moun
tains under a diamond-studded sky, head to
Jacksonville for the 1983 Peter Britt Music and
Arts Festival which takes place July 22 through
August 27. The festival is held out doors and on a
grassy hillside and consists of three parts.
For classical music lovers The Classical
Festival has daily concerts from August 5-20, in
cluding symphonic works, chamber music, vocal
and instrumental recitals and two of the finest
piano soloists in the world.
Headed by the artistic director and conductor
John Trudeau, the festival's shows are slated to
begin at 8:30 p.m. with special programs beginn
ing at 11:30 a m.
The Peter Britt Jazz Festival, its theme “Three
Nights — Three Styles,” will be held August 25,
26, and 27. The artists, including Oave Brubeck,
The Peter Britt Festival will feature jazz artist Dave
Brubeck in late August.
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George Winston, and William Ackerman, change
nightly. Shows begin at 6:30 p.m.
Three-time Grammy award winner John Hart
ford and Riders in the Sky headline the Bluegrass
Festival which runs July 22,23, and 24. The shows
begin at 6:30 p.m., with different artists nightly,
There will also be a special gospel program Sun
day morning.
For tickets and information on the Peter Britt
Festival call 773-6077 or write the festival at PO
Box 1124, Medford, Oregon, 97501.
The Oregon Coast Music Festival is held In
Coos Bay from July I8-24. It includes nine con
certs of varied styles, special films for children
and an open-pit salmon barbeque on the bluffs
facing the ocean. The festival is open to the public
but accommodations are limited. Ticket prices run
from $2 to $6. For more information write the
Oregon Coast Music Festival, PO Box 663, Coos
Bay, Oregon, 97420.
For those who haunt Sunriver each summer,
the Sunriver Music Festival, from August 21-27,
will host four nationally known conductors.
For information, call James Reeves at 687-9487.
Tickets go on sale next month. For ticket informa
tion, call 593-1221.