Theme
Our theme for this year’s festival is Creative Inventions. This theme is in part inspired by Bach’s genre of keyboard pieces entitled “Inventions,” but is also inspired by his overall imagination. The colorful idiom “creative inventions of the mind” certainly applies to Bach and his ability to reimagine music in exciting new ways. This appears in his music in ways such as reinventing movements from his sacred choral works into virtuoso instrumental concertos to turning a concerto with four violins into a concerto for four harpsichords with all sorts of new ideas. Bach’s imagination was beautiful indeed!
Finally, the theme Creative Inventions also encapsulates the world through the exploration of physical “inventions” and the genius behind them. For example, during Bach’s time the Newtonian telescope was invented and clockmaking made significant technological advances. In 1977, the Voyager I spacecraft carried “The Golden Record” with recordings demonstrating some of the most interesting and iconic music of all kinds from human civilization. Bach led the way with the most compositions featured on the record. In 2013 the Voyager I left our solar system and entered the far reaches of interstellar space. Bach’s genius is quite literally out of this world!
Programs
FESTIVAL CONCERT I
Bach - Orchestral Suite no.3
Ginastera - Variaciones concertante
Liszt - Piano Concerto no 1
L. Boulanger - D’un matin de printemps
Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
FESTIVAL CONCERT II
Julian Grant - Sancho’s Dance Mix: A Suite on Dance Tunes by Ignatius Sancho
Bach - Concerto for Oboe d'Amour Orchestra in A major, BWV 1055
Respighi - Trittico botticelliano
Handel - Dixit Dominus
Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine
Event Lineup
Noon Concert Series
Rock Bach @ Pale Fire
Festival Concert I
Festival Concert II
Leipzig Service
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