OREGON BACH FESTIVAL REWORKS 2021 PLANS AS COVID-19 HEALTH & SAFTEY REMAIN A PRIORITY February 18, 2021 – Due to ongoing precautions surrounding COVID-19, the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance has made the difficult decision to convert the 2021 Oregon Bach Festival to a series of virtual events – offering audiences around …
Tune into KWAX on Friday, February 19 at 10:00am BWV 214 and BWV 201 are secular cantatas dealing with Greek mythology rather than Lutheranism. These works are the closest Bach came to writing opera, though they would have been performed in concert style during his time. BWV 214 was a gift to Maria Josephia, the Queen of …
Embracing Americaby Ed Dorsch Night after grueling night, Richard Danielpour went to sleep at 11:00 p.m., only to wake up at 2:00 a.m. “I tried everything I could think of,” said the Grammy-winning composer. “My doctor prescribed sleeping pills. I tried melatonin, magnesium, this, that. Nothing would do it.” It was March, and COVID-19 was …
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On September 1, Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) Board Chair Robin Burk announced that the organization has named longtime patron and donor, Dr. Peter von Hippel, as an Honorary Life Director of the Board of Oregon Bach Festival. “Pete has been an active supporter and advocate for the Festival for more than three decades,” says Burk. …
Grammy-winning composer Richard Danielpour has been commissioned by Oregon Bach Festival to compose a set of fifteen miniatures, titled “An American Mosaic,” for celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein to be premiered on December 6, 2020 at 2pm PST. Each miniature commemorates segments of the American population that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including parents, …
Thank you for joining us for the 2020 OBF Radio Festival! To help enhance your listening experience, we’ve created a single resource of names, dates, texts, translations, and tidbits that we thought might be helpful. The OBF Radio Festival Listening Guide contains expanded information for each broadcast, including notes, list of movements, and translations. Many …
The Grammy Award-winning Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) announces a 2020 Radio Festival, featuring a lineup of historic recordings from some of the world’s top classical musicians, and the rare opportunity for audiences to enjoy previously archived LIVE and studio recordings throughout the past five decades. Hosted by Peter van de Graaff, the Radio Festival will …
Dear Friends, I am writing to let you know that we have made the difficult decision to postpone both the 2020 Oregon Bach Festival and the selection of our new Artistic Director until the summer of 2021, with the health and safety of our patrons, musicians and community foremost in our minds. I know that …
Those of us musicians who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s held the great composer Krzysztof Penderecki in the very high esteem reserved in the twentieth century for a few very special composers like Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. We eagerly listened to and studied his groundbreaking works such as the Threnody to Victims …