Charlotte Bach Festival 2023

June 07, 2023 - June 14, 2023

Description

The angel chorus roused the shepherds to announce the birth of the Christ child – an echo of prophecies of old, when Isaiah described the angels attending heaven’s throne with their three-fold cry, “Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabbaoth!” Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God of Hosts!”

The 2023 Charlotte Bach Festival brings the joy of Christmas to our annual June festival. And there’s no more joyful music than Bach at Christmas.

This year’s festival features all six parts of Bach’s magnificent Christmas Oratorio. After kicking off the festival with the popular Bach at the Brauhaus at The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery on Friday, June 9th, we perform Parts I and II of the Christmas Oratorio on Saturday, June 10 at Myers Park Presbyterian Church.

On Sunday, June 11 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Clive Driskill-Smith, one of the leading organists of his generation, presents a concert on the magnificent Van Ness Hamrick Organ, C. B. Fisk Opus 13.

Parts III and IV of the Christmas Oratorio are the subject of The Bach Experience at Myers Park United Methodist Church’s Jubilee Hall on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Monday night features a very special recital by our talented Vocal Fellows at Myers Park's intimate Francis Chapel. And we close out the festival with Parts V and VI of the Christmas Oratorio on Tuesday, June 13, back at Myers Park Presbyterian Church.

UMKC Choral Conducting Institute

June 14, 2023 - June 16, 2023

Description

Spire Chamber Ensemble and UMKC Conservatory invite conductors to apply for admission to the 2023 Choral Conducting Institute with faculty, Jennaya Robison (Director of Choral Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory) and Ben A. Spalding (Spire Chamber Ensemble). Conductors will have the rare opportunity to conduct the Spire Chamber Ensemble, one of America’s renowned professional choral ensembles comprised of some of the finest musicians in the United States. Conductors will receive 90 minutes (three separate sessions of 30 minutes) of podium time with the ensemble, direct feedback from the clinicians and singers, and individual conducting lessons with the faculty. Designed for school, church, community, and graduate conductors, this institute will hone in on the crucial skills of specific gestural communication, efficient rehearsal techniques, and deeper musical understanding each score presents. The world-class singers of Spire will provide real-time responsiveness full of subtleties of expression that is invaluable to anyone aiming to grow on the podium, all while being surrounded by a supportive and like-minded community. Conductors and auditors will additionally engage one another in daily roundtable discussion and interest sessions.

Oregon Bach Festival 2023

July 04, 2023 - July 16, 2023

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The internationally renowned Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) and the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance are pleased to announce the 2023 lineup of concerts and artists. The upcoming season, which runs June 30 through July 16, continues the long-standing tradition of presenting the finest choral-orchestral works, extraordinary new music, illuminating lectures, and captivating community events. The Festival will be held in Eugene, with events at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, historic Beall Concert Hall on the University of Oregon campus, and local churches.

MENDELSSOHN: Lobgesang

August 16, 2023 - August 19, 2023

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The 2023 season finale celebrates the tradition of choral music in the Music Shed with Mendelssohn’s choral cantata Hymn of Praise — a highlight of the Music Shed’s first concert in 1906. Yale Professor of Choral Music Jeffrey Douma leads the Litchfield County Choral Union, members of Yale choral ensembles, and regional singers accompanied by the Norfolk Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Songs of America

October 09, 2023 - October 15, 2023

Description

With his Voiceless Mass, Raven Chacon became the first Native American winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Chacon, from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation (Arizona), has had performances in prestigious halls all over the world including Washington DC, Berlin, San Francisco, Sydney, Los Angeles and New York. He has written for and/or collaborated with The Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma amongst others. Since 2004, he has mentored over 300 high school Native composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project. A concentrated and powerful musical expression leaving a haunting, visceral impact, Voiceless Mass for pipe organ and instrumental ensemble evokes the weight of history in a church setting. This work considers the spaces in which we gather, the history of access to these spaces and the land upon which these buildings sit.

Songs of America, a signature repertoire for True Concord, includes African-American Spirituals arranged by Moses Hogan and William Grant Still, folk songs by Stephen Foster, including Beautiful Dreamer and Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair and music of the Sonoran Desert. New this season, True Concord selected poetry through a nation-wide competition with assistance from the UA Poetry Center. The inaugural winning poet is Janet Ruth, whose poem will be set to music by Nicholas Ryan Kelly, the latest winner of the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition.

Lessons & Carols

December 04, 2023 - December 10, 2023

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Standing with the holiday traditions of A Christmas Carol, Nutcracker, Messiah, the lights of Winterhaven and Tucson Botanical Gardens.

Old favorites and a world premiere by True Concord’s new Co-Composer-in-Residence, Timothy C. Takach in the area’s most beautiful churches.

Holiday Special

December 13, 2023

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Founding Music Director Eric Holtan and Assitant Director Phillip Moody are putting together a brand-new program complementary to True Concord’s Annual Lessons & Carols –no works duplicated, so you can enjoy both!

Seats for this debut show are limited, the 4PM start time allows for bringing the kids with plenty of time for a relaxed supper afterward–truly family-friendly, and the Crown Room views are unparalleled.