Bach Festival

Schedule as of March 4, 2024. Subject to change.
* = Rain Location: Lindsay-Crossman Chapel
$ = Tickets Required: moldeandomentes.com/tickets or (440) 826-8070 

INVENTION NO. 3

92nd Annual Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival
Friday, April 12 - Sunday, April 14, 2024
Subscriptions will be available at moldeandomentes.com/tickets 2024年2月8日星期四，以及3月1日星期五的单程票.

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Friday, April 12, 2024

Open House
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Riemenschneider Bach Institute, Room 160, Boesel Musical Arts Building
以展示罕见的欧博allbet从金库和介绍巴赫节日特色艺术作品, "Bach's Invention," 2022, by Preston Trombly (b. 1945).

Interlude: Selections from "Star Machine"
1:25-1:55 p.m.
Lobby, Boesel Musical Arts Building
见证这部由吉迪恩·邓波儿和汉克·邓波儿作曲和作词的新音乐剧的魔力.

RBI Student Scholar Presentation
2-3 p.m.
Fynette Kulas Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Building
特惠2023-24 Riemenschneider Bach Institute (RBI) Gott Scholar Katie Ritzema ' 25.

Interlude: BW Beatles
3:05-3:25 p.m.
Front Steps, Boesel Musical Arts Building (Rain Location: Lobby)
《欧博allbet》专辑演唱会的原声预告 April 27.

Master Class
3:30-5 p.m.
Kadel Vocal Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Building
Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Praised as "fiery, wild, 而且危险”(北卡罗莱纳古典之声)，具有“刻画人物的才能”(芝加哥古典评论), 女高音玛格丽特·卡彭特·海格以“完美的音准”和“完美的唱法”(CVNC)征服了观众。.

Festival Brass
6:15 p.m.
Marting Hall Lawn & Tower*

ACRONYM ($)
7 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
巴洛克乐队首字母缩略词演奏巴赫和17世纪德国的狂野器乐, which inspired him.

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Can't make it to the performance in person? We've got you covered. 音乐会开始前几分钟, 只需点击下面的链接，并确保 调整您的扬声器. 最后，坐下来欣赏精彩的表演. Note: 直播表演不能重播.

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Post-Concert Reception
8:30 p.m.
Lobby, Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
Hosted by Friends of the Conservatory.

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Bach Yoga
9:30-10:15 a.m.
Front Steps, Boesel Musical Arts Building (rain location: Fynette Kulas Music Hall)
加入我们的放松时间的姿势，深呼吸和冥想设置音乐J. S. Bach.

Master Class
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Kadel Vocal Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Building
Tyler Duncan, tenor
With a "honey-coloured and warm, 但声音强健而威严”(《欧博allbet》), 男中音泰勒·邓肯在世界各地的歌剧和音乐会中都获得了极大的赞誉.

教师研究展示:探索历史在Riemenschneider巴赫研究所
2-3:15 p.m.
Fynes Chamber Hall, Kulas Musical Arts Building
BW faculty Paul Cary, Christina Fuhrmann和Danielle Kuntz将讨论Riemenschneider Bach Institute (RBI)的藏品可以教给我们欧博allbet巴赫和巴赫音乐节的什么. 印度储备银行收藏的世界闻名的《欧博allbet》有助于我们了解人们对这首曲子及其演奏的态度是如何随着时间的推移而变化的. RBI的大量档案突出了Selma Riemenschneider在巴赫音乐节和鲍德温华莱士音乐学院所扮演的角色. 印度储备银行的藏品将被展出.

Interlude: Selections from "Star Machine"
3:20-3:40 p.m.
Lobby, Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
见证这部由吉迪恩·邓波儿和汉克·邓波儿作曲和作词的新音乐剧的魔力.

Faculty Recital: A Visual Journey of Art & Music
4 p.m. Pre-concert lecture
4:30 p.m. Recital
Fynette Kulas Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Building
鲍德温华莱士学院联手展示了一个充满活力的欧博allbet，融合了17世纪和18世纪欧洲的视觉艺术和音乐. Dr. Darlene Michitsch, chair of the BW Art Department, will introduce the featured art works, 讨论音乐和艺术在不同时间和地点之间的创造性联系.

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Festival Brass
6:15 p.m.
Marting Hall Lawn & Tower*

1724/2024 ($)
7 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
In 1724, J.S. Bach premiered the incredible "St. John Passion.“我们的1724/2024节目将邀请克利夫兰巴赫合唱团表演巴赫生命中多产的这一年的音乐, including cantatas, as well as keyboard and orchestral suites. 该节目还将首演一首由BW驻场作曲家创作的新作品 Dr. Clint Needham '04.

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WATCH IT LIVE

Can't make it to the performance in person? We've got you covered. 音乐会开始前几分钟, 只需点击下面的链接，并确保 调整您的扬声器. 最后，坐下来欣赏精彩的表演. Note: 直播表演不能重播.

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Conservatory Family Brunch ($)
10:30 a.m.
Ballroom, Strosacker Hall
Current students, parents, alumni, 教职员工被邀请参加家庭聚餐，庆祝巴赫的一切. Advance reservation required. 精选精选的新音乐剧“星机”与音乐和歌词的吉迪恩'25和汉克'26邓波儿.

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Festival Brass
1:15 p.m.
Marting Hall Lawn & Tower*

"St. John Passion," BWV 245 ($)
2 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
第92届巴赫音乐节以J. S. Bach's complex and thought-provoking "St. John Passion.“这部强烈而有影响力的杰作突出了人类情感和经历的极端——背叛, sacrifice and redemption. 玛格丽特·卡彭特·海格作为福音传教士, Tyler Duncan as Jesus, BWV: Cleveland's Bach Choir soloists, BW巴赫合唱团和BW节日乐团. Dr. Dirk Garner, Artistic Director and Conductor.

Tickets

WATCH IT LIVE

Can't make it to the performance in person? We've got you covered. 音乐会开始前几分钟, 只需点击下面的链接，并确保 调整您的扬声器. 最后，坐下来欣赏精彩的表演. Note: 直播表演不能重播.

LIVE STREAM >>

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Previous Events

INVENTION NO. 1

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Bach & Bartók
7 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
以BW教师和客座艺术家为特色的音乐椅游戏. Bartók's eclectic, 节奏曲《欧博allbet》与约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫的音乐完美融合. 观众被邀请坐在舞台上鸟瞰艺术家们. Featuring Dr. Zarina Melik-Stepanova and Dr. Alexandra Nguyen, piano, and Prof. Jamie Ryan and Prof. Josh Ryan, percussion. 

INVENTION NO. 2

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Nicholas Phan Master Class
10-11:40 a.m.
Fynette Kulas Music Hall, Boesel Musical Arts Building 
由男高音尼古拉斯·潘指导的鲍德温·华莱士高级声乐表演专业.

Lecture by Dr. Michael Marissen
3:05 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
"Troubling Voices in Bach's Sublime St. John Passion"
Presented by Dr. Michael Marissen, Professor Emeritus of Music, Swarthmore College, Visiting Professor, Graduate Faculties, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania. 在这个非正式的讲座与音乐插图, Marissen将探讨《欧博allbet》中的反犹太修辞问题以及约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫在马丁·路德的《欧博allbet》德文译本中的音乐背景. Free and open to the public.

Friday, January 26, 2024

Fire & Grace & Ash: Partita Americana ($)
7 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
Edwin Huizinga, violin; William Coulter, guitar; and Ashley Hoyer, mandolin, in a program blending the music of J. S. Bach with American fiddle tunes. 

Saturday, January 27, 2024

BACH52 in Concert ($)
7 p.m. 
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
在他正在进行的BACH52播客和录音欧博allbet, Grammy-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan asks, "Is Bach's music for everyone?刚录完BACH52的新咏叹调, 潘与广受赞誉的早期音乐合奏团的成员一起参加了J.S. Bach.

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Reich-n-Bach
2 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building
史蒂夫·赖希的《欧博allbet》和《欧博allbet》将与巴赫的传奇康塔塔《欧博allbet》并列演出," BWV 4, 克利夫兰巴赫合唱团的成员, chamber orchestra and Prof. Rob Kovacs, piano.

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The Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival - the oldest collegiate Bach festival in the nation - was founded in 1932 by Professor Albert Riemenschneider (longtime director of the BW Conservatory) and his wife, Selma. The Baldwin Wallace Festival Choir and Orchestra presented the first Bach Festival in June 1933, and we've been performing annual Bach festivals ever since. In the current era, the festival is evolving to include year-round events, like Bach Haus, that explore Bach's influence on a broad spectrum of music.

Baldwin Wallace performing groups are joined by faculty members and professional musicians in the three-day, multi-event program. Soloists are internationally known artists; the lecturers, distinguished Bach and Baroque scholars. Our students consider the unusual opportunity of participating, as colleagues, with world-class professionals a high point in their performing experience.

Beginning with the 43rd festival in 1975, the festival performing groups have been reduced to sizes now known to be more in line with those employed in Bach's time. Likewise, from 1975 on, all vocal works have been sung in the language of their origins. These changes have made possible the cultivation of a truly Baroque sound with inherent clarity, drive and intensity.

With a repertoire list that includes more than 300 compositions by J.S. Bach, as well as selected works from 52 other composers, the Festival rotates Bach's four major choral works on a four-year cycle. In this way, BW students are exposed to all four of the major Bach choral works during their college years; the B-minor Mass, the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, and the Christmas Oratorio.

Bach Festival Reviews

Various clevelandclassical.com reviews
BW Bach Festival highlighting saxophone, returning to roots on 86th annual event (preview) - Cleveland.com
MUSIC REVIEW: Baldwin Wallace Bach Fest - Cool Cleveland
MUSIC REVIEW: Kenari Quartet at Baldwin Wallace - Cool Cleveland
MUSIC REVIEW: Bach Festival @BaldwinWallace - Cool Cleveland
Bach Festival at Baldwin Wallace concludes with hair-raising 'St. Matthew Passion' - The Plain Dealer
Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival Concert One (April 15) - clevelandclassical.com

By Dr. Melvin Unger

Many would say it is the lucidity of Bach's music - the consummate integration of its structural elements - that makes it so great. Bach was unsurpassed in his ability to grasp (intuitively it seems) the possibilities of a melodic or harmonic idea, and to work these out in coherent, yet expressive ways. His music functions equally well on both horizontal and vertical planes - as a series of simultaneous melodic strands and as a progression of chords. It brings competing impulses into equilibrium: the logical and the mystical, the sonic and the symbolic. It constantly surprises the listener with its inventiveness.

While using as its starting point the harmonic language, compositional techniques and rhetorical figures of its day, it moves far beyond them. Bach's style is characterized by a richness of chromatic language, a logic of thematic unfolding and an overlay of hermeneutical (interpretive) allusions. It is no wonder that succeeding composers held him in such awe. Robert Schumann put it well: "Wir sind alle Stumper gegen ihn" (Next to him we are all plodders).

Presenting a comprehensive picture of Bach's creative genius is one of the chief objectives of the Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival. View a list of works performed on Festival programs since its inception in 1933.