Where’s the Bach?

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!

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. 

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).

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 CantataGloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 

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 

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’ 

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