2017 Bach Festival Archive
Schedule of Festival weekend
(see below for Prelude events and Concert/Symposium presenters & details)
Friday, April 21, 2017
CONCERT:
5:00 PM: OPUS ONE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT
With faculty soloists Elizabeth Chang, Fredric T. Cohen & Gilles Vonsattel
Bezanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center, North Pleasant St.
SYMPOSIUM:
7:30–9:00 pm: Panel Discussion: Contextualizing Bach’s B minor Mass
Moderated by Ernest May; with Michael Marissen, Daniel R. Melamed, Robert L. Marshall, Jan Stockigt and Szymon Paczkowski
Bezanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center, North Pleasant St., Free
Saturday, April 22, 2017
SCHOLARLY SYMPOSIUM, 8am-6:15pm
Link to webpage for description, presenter bios, photos, abstracts & paper titles
Paper Sessions, Keynote Address, Registration and Reception are in Bezanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center, N. Pleasant Street, Amherst
8:00-8:30 am: Morning Refreshments and Registrations
Bezanson Recital Hall Lobby, Fine Arts Center, North Pleasant St.
Please bring cash or check made out to UMass Amherst for $25 general/$5 students with ID. Free for Festival Presenters/Performers
8:30-10:00 am: PAPER SESSION 1, Chair: Ernest May
Brent Auerbach, Joel Lester, Daniel R. Melamed
10:15-11:45 am: PAPER SESSION 2, Chair: Roberta M. Marvin
Jan Stockigt, Szymon Paczkowski, Robert & Traute Marshall
12:00–1:00 pm: Lunch for Symposium registrants
University Club, 243 Stockbridge Road
1:15–2:15 pm: Keynote Address by Michael Marissen, Bach Against Modernity
Bezanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center, North Pleasant St.
2:30–4:00 pm: PAPER SESSION 3, Chair: Ellen Exner
Louis Epstein, Erinn Knyt, Markus Rathey
4:15–6:15 pm: PAPER SESSION 4, Chair: Marianna Ritchey
Ellen Exner, Andrea Moore, Matthew Mugmon, Allison Smith
6:15–7:00 pm: Evening Reception
Bezanson Recital Hall Lobby, Fine Arts Center, North Pleasant St.
CONCERT:
7:30 pm: BACH MASS IN B MINOR SOLD OUT
UMass Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Simon Carrington, guest conductor
Tony Thornton, chorus master
Grace Episcopal Church, 14 Boltwood Ave. on the common, Amherst
Sunday, April 23, 2017
CONCERTS:
11:30 am: COFFEE CANTATA, BWV 211 with alumni musicians
Share Coffee, 17 Kellogg St., Amherst, Free
3:00 pm: BACH MASS IN B MINOR SOLD OUT
UMass Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Simon Carrington, guest conductor
Tony Thornton, chorus master
Grace Episcopal Church, 14 Boltwood Ave. on the common, Amherst
Prelude Events
Bach: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Sunday, Feb. 5 at 3pm at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 867 N. Pleasant St, Amherst, Free
Featuring Cantata 78, plus Toccata & Fugue in D minor & excerpts from Mass in B minor
Fredric T. Cohen, conductor; Matthew Cron, organ with 23 UMass music students past and present!
Bach in the Subways
A Global Event around Bach’s birthday, March 21
March 18-21, 2017, downtown Amherst (FREE), http://bachinthesubways.org/amherst
Bach in Bezanson!
Evening performances of solo and organ works in Bezanson Hall, Free
Sunday, April 2, 9:30pm – Solo Cello Suites& Bach Chorales (Cello Studio)
Wednesday, April 5, 9:30pm – Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
Friday, April 14, 9:30pm – Organ Works & Beyond (Saxophone Studio)
Tuesday, April 18, 9:30pm – Well-Tempered Clavier – Keyboard Works
Festival Concerts
Friday, April 21, 2017
5:00 PM: OPUS ONE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT with faculty soloists
Bezanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center, North Pleasant St.
Music by J.S. Bach:
Concerto for Oboe d’Amore in A Major, BWV 1055
Keyboard Concerto in G Minor, BWV 975
Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066
& Vivaldi:La Stravaganza Violin Concerto Op. 4, #6
Soloists: Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Elizabeth Chang, violin; Gilles Vonsattel, piano
$3 UMass students; $5 other students/seniors; $10 general public
Box Office 413-545-2511
Saturday, April 22, 2017
7:30 pm: BACH MASS IN B MINOR SOLD OUT
UMass Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Grace Episcopal Church, 14 Boltwood Ave. on the common, Amherst, MA
Simon Carrington, conductor
Tony Thornton, chorus master
with soloists Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano; Corrine Byrne, soprano; Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano; William Hite, tenor & Andrew Garland, baritone
We are sorry, but both Mass in B minor Concerts are SOLD OUT.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
11:30 am: COFFEE CANTATA BWV 211
Share Coffee, 17 Kellogg St., Amherst
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht
with alumni soloists Corrine Byrne, soprano; Eric Christopher Perry, tenor & John Salvi, baritone
Coffee Cantata is free & open to the public
3:00 pm: BACH MASS IN B MINOR SOLD OUT
UMass Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Grace Episcopal Church, 14 Boltwood Ave. on the common, Amherst, MA
Simon Carrington, conductor
Tony Thornton, chorus master
with soloists Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano; Corrine Byrne, soprano; Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano; William Hite, tenor & Andrew Garland, baritone
We are sorry, but both Mass in B minor concerts are SOLD OUT.
Symposium, April 2017: Bach in the Age of Modernism, Postmodernism and Globalization
Although the music of J.S. Bach has inspired a voluminous amount of scholarship, the impact and appropriation of his music in the 20th and 21st centuries remains relatively unexplored. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives that share an interest in the multiple ways the music of J.S. Bach has impacted culture or inspired the work of composers, pedagogues, performers, critics, and listeners during the 20th century and beyond.
Topics include Bach’s influence on major composers, recent discoveries in archival research, the reception and appropriation of “Bach” by diverse political regimes, the use of Bach’s compositions as pedagogical models in higher education, the quotation from or appropriation of Bach’s compositions and style, and the metamorphosis of “Bach” and his music from local to national, European, Western, and now, Global.
Presenters (click on name for bio)
Michael Marissen, Keynote Speaker
Swarthmore College
Bach Against Modernity
Bach’s Holy Dread, The New Yorker, 01/02/2017
Ellen Exner
New England Conservatory
Certifying J.S. Bach’s Interplanetary Funksmanship: George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, and P-Funk’s Baroque Aesthetic
Matthew Mugmon
University of Arizona
Bernstein, Rock, and Bach: Constructing a Tonal Heritage for Modern Music
Szymon Paczkowski
University of Warsaw
Music at the Lutheran court chapel in Dresden in the time of Bach
Markus Rathey
Yale University
Canon and Identity: Leo Schrade’s Bach Studies During his Years at Yale
Symposium Schedule
Friday, April 21, 2017
7:30-9:00 pm: Panel Discussion: “Contextualizing Bach’s B minor Mass”
Fine Arts Center: Bezanson Recital Hall; Free
Moderator: Ernest May (UMass Amherst)
Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College)
Robert L. Marshall (Brandeis University)
Daniel R. Melamed (Indiana University)
Szymon Paczkowski (University of Warsaw)
Janice Stockigt (University of Melbourne)
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Paper Sessions and Keynote Address are in Bezanson Recital Hall, N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Cost: $5 Students; $25 General; Free for Presenters/Performers. Bring cash or check made out to UMass Amherst
Click for Bios/Photos/Abstracts of Presenters
8:00-8:30 am: Morning Refreshments and Registration
Fine Arts Center: Bezanson Recital Hall Lobby
8:30-10:00 am: Paper Session I Chair: Ernest May
Brent Auerbach (UMass Amherst): “Non-Musical Performances of Bach’s Music as Acts of Critical Analysis”
Joel Lester (City University of New York): “Bach and Musical Forms”
Daniel R. Melamed (Indiana University): “How did ‘Aus Liebe’ get to be so slow?”
10:00-10:15 am: Break
10:15-11:45 am: Paper Session II Chair: Roberta M. Marvin
Janice Stockigt (University of Melbourne): “The Royal Catholic Chapel in Leipzig’s Pleissenburg Castle”
Szymon Paczkowski (University of Warsaw): “Music in the Lutheran court chapel in Dresden in the time of Bach”
Robert and Traute Marshall (Brandeis University): “Bach Country Today”
12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch
University Club, 243 Stockbridge Road
Music by Robert Eisenstein and the Five College Early Music Collegium
1:15-2:15 pm: Keynote Address:
Fine Arts Center: Bezanson Recital Hall
Michael Marissen (Swarthmore College): “Bach Against Modernity”
2:15-2:30 pm: Break
2:30-4:00 pm: Paper Session III Chair: Ellen Exner
Louis Epstein (St. Olaf College): “Bach and the Dance in 20th-Century France”
Erinn Knyt (UMass Amherst): “Allusions to J.S. Bach in the Early Piano Pieces of Ferruccio Busoni”
Markus Rathey (Yale University): “Canon and Identity: Leo Schrade’s Bach Studies During his Years at Yale”
4:00-4:15 pm: Break
4:15-6:15 pm: Paper Session IV Chair: Marianna Ritchey
Ellen Exner (New England Conservatory): “Certifying J. S. Bach’s Interplanetary Funksmanship: George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, and P-Funk’s Baroque Aesthetic”
Matthew Mugmon (University of Arizona): “Bernstein, Rock, and Bach: Constructing a Tonal Heritage for Modern Music”
Andrea Moore (University of California, Riverside): “Art-Religion for a Global New Age”
Allison Smith (UMass Amherst): “Religious Rivalries in John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer”
6:15-7:00 pm: Evening Reception
Fine Arts Center: Bezanson Recital Hall Lobby
Support
The UMass Bach Festival & Symposium is made possible by:
- UMass Amherst Department of Music & Dance
- UMass Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts
- UMass Amherst Office of Research and Engagement
- Fine Arts Center and the UMass Arts Council
Media sponsor:
New England Public Radio
Support our Students!
Limited time opportunity! Get preferred seating for the Sunday performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, plus a delicious lunch buffet with live music, and help support the Music Scholarship Fund.
Learn more (link to pdf invitation letter)