The Dessoff Choirs

Mass in B Minor
The Dessoff Choirs
Christopher Shepard, conductor
Susan Consoli, soprano
Sabrina Learman, soprano
Sarah Rose Taylor, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Anderson, tenor
Thomas Jones, baritone
Arcadia Players (New York City debut)

This cornerstone of Western music is the perfect prism through which to view Bach’s compositional genius. Not only did Bach refashion a number of his earlier works for inclusion in the Mass, he also drew on a millennium’s worth of choral tradition in this masterpiece that serves to sum up all the musical styles he inherited. Dessoff is joined by a raft of accomplished soloists and the celebrated period-instrument ensemble Arcadia Players, now in-residence at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at U. Mass, Amherst,

J.S. BACH Mass in B Minor, BWV 232

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Sing with Dessoff for a day: open to all singers, this reading of the cantata movements that Bach refashioned and placed into the Mass gives you the chance to sing great music and learn more about Bach’s endless inventiveness and genius.

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Gilded Goldbergs
Steven Ryan, piano
Catherine Venable, piano

A variation on variations: this contemporary recasting of Bach’s Goldberg Variations takes Bach’s original harpsichord theme through 32 virtuosic new variations for two pianos, drawing on a range of compositional styles and trends from Bach’s day to ours.

ROBIN HOLLOWAY  Gilded Goldbergs (New York premiere)

Pianos by Steinway & Sons

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WHY BACH MATTERS
George B. Stauffer, lecturer
The prominent Bach scholar and Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor of Music History at Rutgers University examines why Bach’s legacy remains at the core of Western art music.

Sponsored, in part, by the Thiemann-Wicker Foundation

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“Stile Antico”
The Dessoff Choirs
Christopher Shepard, conductor
Libby Van Cleve, oboe d’amore
Todd Reynolds, violin

Before and beyond Bach: a concert of choral and instrumental works exploring how earlier styles of music have inspired composers of many periods. Movements from Bach’s arrangement of Palestrina’s Missa Sine Nomine a 6 will be presented alongside music by another Baroque master, Grzegorz Gorczycki. Also on the program, works by Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and Max Reger, who were inspired by Bach. Contemporary selections feature the North American premiere of Willam Hawley’s Tota Pulchra es Maria; two works by Ingram Marshall: September Canons, a piece for solo violin inspired by 9/11 and performed by Todd Reynolds, for whom it was written, and Holy Ghosts, for solo oboe d’amore, written for and performed by Libby Van Cleve; also, Sven-David Sandström’s mystical Komm, Jesu, Komm.

PALESTRINA (ARR. J.S. BACH)  Missa Sine Nomine a 6 (Kyrie & Gloria)
GORCZYCKI  Sub tuum praesidium
MARSHALL Holy Ghosts
HAWLEY
  Two Motets
  Tota Pulchra es Maria  (North American premiere)
  O Magnum Mysterium
MARSHALL  September Canons
SANDSTRÖM  Komm, Jesu, Komm
MENDELSSOHN  Warum toben die Heiden, Op 78, No. 1
SCHUMANN Talismane, Op. 141, No. 4
REGER  O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden

Sponsored, in part, by Lisa M. Madsen, in remembrance of Russell & Esther Madsen and Cecil & Margaret Sprague

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