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The Oregon Bach Festival is pleased to announce the lineup of lecture-recitals, academic panels, and presentations for the 2024 Musicking Conference, which runs April 9 through April 12.   The Conference – themed “Resurgent Voices” – is dedicated to highlighting previously lost, discarded, or suppressed “voices,” music, and performance practices.  “I guarantee that attendees will encounter …

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Oregon Bach Festival names celebrated pair as artistic partners Craig Hella Johnson and Jos van Veldhoven will shape the festival’s vision and development Two luminaries in the world of classical music and the work of Johann Sebastian Bach have been named as the new artistic partners who will help lead the acclaimed Oregon Bach Festival …

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Oregon Bach Festival and the University of Oregon are saddened to announce the passing of Andrew Berwick Jr. The Berwicks – Andy and Phyllis – are long-time advocates of OBF and passionate supporters of the arts. “Andy and Phyzz enriched the UO campus experience for countless students, our entire community, and music lovers from around …

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Boyd smiles alongside Kalapuya tribal elder, Jan Michael “Looking Wolf” after indigenous land blessing, June 30 A native Oregonian and University of Oregon graduate, Dr. James Boyd, returned to the University of Oregon campus during the most difficult period the world of live performance has ever witnessed: the pandemic. His task was a monumental one; …

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“We use music as a way of nurturing the whole person.”   This message is at the heart of This House of Peace, a work commissioned by PeaceHealth in 2008 to celebrate the opening of the new Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend and dedicated to PeaceHealth Caregivers. The text in the choral-orchestral work, which premiered …

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Those who pass by the Schroeder’s in Gresham, Oregon are likely to hear the melodious sound of choral works or Broadway showtunes echoing through their family home. Early in the morning you can hear Jeff waking his children with a rendition of “Oh, what a beautiful mornin’” from Broadway musical “Oklahoma!” or his wife, Amber, …

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Photographer Grzegorz Mart  Polish musician Anna Sułkowska-Migoń never had any intention of becoming a conductor. She was dedicated to studying the viola in college, that is, until she started to feel immense frustration during performances. “I realized I couldn’t express myself as I wanted to with the instrument,” she recalled. “I was stressed and frustrated …

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Those attending Vivaldi’s wildly popular The Four Seasons at the Oregon Bach Festival, will experience an evocative piece of pastoral music, with singing birds, murmuring streams, drunken country dancers, and more. The sold-out audience will witness four distinct concertos, based on sonnets, and depicting the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.   Each concerto will …

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OBF music librarian, Greg Hamilton The average concertgoer has likely never heard of an orchestra librarian or what such a position entails. However, the role is not just important, but crucial to the success of the Oregon Bach Festival (OBF). That is because librarians provide the music audiences will hear – literally.    Since 2013, …

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