Where’s the Bach at the Bach Festival this year?
You asked, and we’ve got an answer! OBF 2024 features 20 Bach works in 17 days!
Bach: Ascension Oratorio, June 28, Beall Concert Hall
Conducted by John Butt
Opening Night!
BACH: Cantata, BWV 21
BACH: Cantata, BWV 11, “Ascension Oratorio”
This program will also be performed at Mount Angel Abbey on June 29 at 3pm.
Portland Cello Project, June 29, Soreng Theater
“Bach with a Twist”
This program will be announced from the stage, but with a title like “Bach with a Twist”…we sorta feel like we’re gonna hear some Bach! (Also, Taylor Swift and Radiohead, in case you were wondering).
Snider: Mass for the Endangered, June 30, Beall Concert Hall
Conducted by Craig Hella Johnson
BYRD: Ne irascaris, Domine
JOHNSON [Text by Euan Tait]: Chant: Wild Hope
BACH Chorale: [New text by Euan Tait, Set to BWV 392] Your life is love, unfolding
BACH Chorale: [New text by Euan Tait, Set to BWV 432] When birds cry out their wounded song
KYR: “Tree of Life Song” from Earth Vigil
BACH Chorale: [New text by Euan Tait, Set to BWV 17] You seek a wounded mercy
BACH Motet: BWV 225
SNIDER: Mass for the Endangered
The Lark Ascending, July 1, Beall Concert Hall
With Claire Wells and Pualina Lim
BACH: Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in C Minor, No. 4, BWV 1017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending
GRIEG: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 45
Music of the Dresden Court, July 2, Beall Concert Hall
A Discovery Concert with John Butt
PISENDEL: Sonata for Orchestra in C Minor
ZELENKA: Miserere in C Minor, ZWV 57
TELEMANN: Conclusion in E Minor, TWV 50:5 from Tafelmusik, Part 1
BACH Cantata: Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191
Mozart: Mass in C Minor, July 5, Beall Concert Hall
Conducted by Jos van Veldhoven
There is a lot of amazing music on this concert. It’s too much to list here, but it’s all on our calendar. Below are some highlights!
MOZART: Mass in C Minor, K. 427
HANDEL [Orchd. W.A. Mozart, K. 572]: “Hallelujah” from Messiah, HWV 56
MOZART: Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, [After BACH: Prelude and Fugue in D-sharp Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2]
BACH: Dona nobis pacem from Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
24 Preludes, July 6, Soreng Theater
With Aaron Diehl and David Wong
BACH: Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
POWELL: Tempus Fugue-It
HANNA: 24 Preludes
Greg Zelek Organ Recital, July 8, Central Lutheran Church
Organ Institute Distinguished Alumni Concert
BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
PRICE: Air from Suite No. 1 for Organ
BUCK: Concert Variations on The Star-Spangled Banner, Op. 23
BACH: Sinfonia from Cantata: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4
BACH: Fugue in D major, BWV 532.2
SULLIVAN: The Lost Chord
BOËLLMANN: Suite gothique, Op. 25
BACH: Cantata, BWV 29
And three works from composer-in-residence Eric Whitacre:
The Seal Lullaby
Animal Crackers (Volume 1)
Sing Gently
Organ Symphony, July 11, Silva Concert Hall
with Paul Jacobs
World Premiere Alert! OBF Commission Alert!
GETER: Prelude and Fugue (and Riffs too) [After BACH: Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I]
LIEBERMANN: Organ Concerto, Op. 141
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, ‘Organ’
Sandbox Percussion, July 13, Soreng Theater
Prophecies of Fire
AKIHO: Haiku 2
SEO: vv
CERRONE: Ode to Joy
KIRSTEN: may the devil take me
TORKE: Selections from Bloom
BACH: [Arr. Victor Caccese] Largo from Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056
CUONG: Next Week’s Trees
ADAMS: Prophecies of Fire