Voronezh, now resident in
Eugene, return for more excel-
lent tunes this year.
Midori plays Mendelssohn on
Tuesday, July 3
Jeffrey Kahane
July 3 and 5
Wednesday 7/11
noon
Let’s Talk: Vocal Soloists (The
Studio)
4:30 pm
Discovery Series: Bach Cantata
140* (Soreng)
7:30 pm
Intimate Evenings: Bernd
Glemser, piano recital (Soreng)
Thursday 7/12
noon
Let’s Talk: Helmuth Rilling (The
Studio)
6:30 pm
Inside Line: Kirk Boyd (Soreng)
★7:30 pm Choral-Orchestral Concert:
Honegger King David, Robin
Engelen, conductor (Silva)
Combining theater, design and
spectacular music, this blending
of the arts should attract many
new faces to the festival.
4:30 pm
★7:30 pm
10:30 pm
Discovery Series: Haydn Mass
for Theresa Part 2* (Soreng
Theater, Hult Center)
Fest@First: Stangeland Family
YCA (First Baptist Church) The
First Baptist Church’s gorgeous
(in aural and physical terms)
venue may be an annoying drive,
but the venue is a perfect place
to celebrate the young voices of
the YCA. See story, p. 4.
Wild Nights: Improv Café (Collier
House, UO)
Saturday 7/7
10am
Composers Symposium:
Crosscurrents I: The Piano
Reborn (Beall)
11 am
Dance Theatre of Oregon: “Snow
White” (Soreng)
noon
On the House: SFYCA soloists
(Hult Lobby)
2pm
Composers Symposium:
Crosscurrents II: The Gates of
Alto soloist Roxana Constantinescu
7:30 pm
10:30 pm
Paradise (Beall)
Intimate Evenings: Bach à la
Jazz (Beall)
Wild Nights: Improv Café (Collier
House, UO)
Sunday 7/8
3 pm
Inside Line: Thomas Somerville
(Soreng)
★4 pm
Choral-Orchestral Concert: Bach
and Mendelssohn motets;
Haydn Mass for Theresa* (Silva)
Motets are sprightly and enjoy-
able; the Mass for Theresa will
knock your socks off (if you’re
wearing socks, which on July 8
might be a little bit unlikely); and
if you attended the Discovery
Series, you’ll know all kinds of
cool info about the Mass.
7 pm
Patron Celebration (Valley River
Inn, by invitation)
10:30 pm Wild Nights: Improv Café (Collier
House, UO)
Monday 7/9
noon
On the House: Swang (Hult Lobby)
7:30 pm
Organ Recital: Kimberly Marshall
(Central Lutheran Church)
7:30 pm
Composers Symposium:
Crosscurrents III: East Meets
West (Beall)
Tuesday 7/10
noon
On the House: Chungliang Al
Huang, Tao of Listening (Hult
Lobby)
4:30 pm
Discovery Series: Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3* (Soreng)
★7:30 pm Fest@First: Trio Voronezh with
orchestra; Philip Brunelle, con-
ductor (First Baptist Church)
S INGING WITH THE S TARS
Been crooning a lot of Kelly Clarkson while lathering up? Perhaps you prefer
to belt out show tunes — “Oh, what a beautiful morning!” — as you rinse and
repeat. Well, the Bach Fest has a plan for you. While many OBF events involve
watching professionals make the music, In Choir welcomes all to sing alongside
the Festival Chorus.
The program, developed by the Minnesota Chorale, has participants attend a
rehearsal of Brahms Requiem and then observe as the Festival’s artistic director
Helmuth Rising conducts the choir.
The festival’s press release states, “By standing alongside professional singers in
full voice, participants can gain an appreciation for the extraordinary sound quali-
ty, richness, and resonance of this choir that is an early-summer fixture of Eugene.”
It’s a mere $10 to participate, so bring your shower-singing skills on down to
The Studio at the Hult Center at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 27. — Amanda Burhop
For tickets and more info, visit http://bachfest.uoregon.edu
Friday 7/13
noon
Organ Interludes: Julia Brown
(Church of the Resurrection)
4:30 pm
Discovery Series: Bach Orchestral
Suite No. 4* (Soreng)
7:30 pm
Guest Artists: The 5 Browns (Silva)
Saturday 7/14
11 am
“Music in Action: Bach & Forth”
with Rich Glauber (Soreng)
★noon
Let’s Talk: John Evans (The
Studio) Remember when the
OBF tried to let Royce Saltzman
step down a few years back and
things went awry? Well, it looks
like this transition, to John
Evans, may work a whole hecku-
va lot better. Let Evans’ Welsh
accent charm you as he answers
your tough questions and your
welcoming softballs.
7:30 pm
Intimate Evenings: Triad
(Soreng)
Sunday 7/15
3 pm
Inside Line: Robert Hurwitz
(Soreng)
★4 pm
Choral-Orchestral Concert:
Beethoven Missa Solemnis*
(Silva) Ah, the last event. By now,
your party clothes are well-worn;
you’ve seen the soloists getting
coffee at Perugino; you’ve heard
rumors of near-disasters averted
by the professionalism of the
musicians and Rilling; frankly, the
Festival Chorus and Orchestra do
feel like family members. Or
more like summer camp coun-
selors, leaders of a glorious two-
week experience replete with
Helmuth
Rilling
laughs and tears and memories.
Head to the Hult for one last
round of enjoyment before stum-
bling, music-dazed, back to what
some call “real life.”
★ denotes a Best of Bach top recommendation from
the EW faithful.
*Conducted by Helmuth Rilling
Programs subject to change.
R ILLING C HARMS
IN S ERIES
Listen up, people. If you’re
worried about heading to a Bach
Festival event without years of
education under your belt; if you
want to see world-class musicians
in their shorts and sundresses,
chatting with each other and smil-
ing (even laughing at times); if you
want to hear the charm and bril-
liance that is Helmuth Rilling
knowing scores backwards, for-
wards, upside down and inside
out; and if you want to flaunt your
knowledge of little details about
Haydn to your date before you
listen to the Mass for Theresa,
well, this is the thing for you. Plus
you can wear shorts and be in
complete vogue, which doesn’t
always happen with The Classical
Music Experience.
The Discovery Series could
win you over to the Helmuth
Rilling fan club (you, yes you,
might search eBay for one of those
Helmuth bobbleheads) or make
you fall for the bass whose mouth
always quirks up when Rilling
makes a joke. At the same time the
least and most serious bit of the
festival, the Series makes audi-
ences feel like they’ve learned
insider knowledge. For newbies to
the OBF, it’s a great way to feel
affection for the soloists and the
musicians before their big night;
for experienced festival goers, it’s a
time to reconnect with Rilling and
the Big Fun that is the OBF. And
with six to choose from (and an
utterly reasonable ticket price of
$14-$20), you can take your pick.
— Suzi Steffen
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