May 24, 2012
Boulder Bach Festival’s 31st Season Gala Benefit Concert and Reception
You are cordially invited to the Boulder Bach Festival's 31st Season Gala Benefit Concert and Reception
A sumptuous evening of music and cuisine featuring music director Rick Erickson, organ and harpsichord, and concertmaster Zachary Carrettin, performing on viola
May 24, 2012 - 6:30 PM
Join the Boulder Bach Festival in a festive evening featuring Rick Erickson and Zachary Carrettin in recital followed by an elegant reception. Help us celebrate their outstanding contribution to our 31st season!
The Recital: First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine Street – 6:30 pm
The Reception: Mezzanine, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th Street – 7:30 pm
Boulder Bach Beat Blog
Check out the Boulder Bach Beat, Boulder Bach Festival's blog written by Edward McCue. Boulder Bach Beat hopes to stimulate conversations about the ways Bach’s music builds bridges between populations separated by language, culture, geography and time.
Boulder Bach Beat Blog: The Suites for Violoncello
Bach’s six Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello (BWV 1007-12) are among the most frequently performed compositions written for a solo stringed instrument. Each suite consists of six dance movements, and the entire collection appears to be a carefully conceived cycle as opposed to an arbitrary series of pieces.
Most likely composed during Bach’s Cöthen period of 1717–1723, the lack of an autographed manuscript results in uncertainty as to whether the suites were composed before or after the 1720 Sonata and Partitas for Violin (BWV 1001-6), and the vagueness of the very early use of the term “violoncello” (“small large viol”) does not suggest whether the pieces were intended to played on an instrument held da gamba (between the legs) or da spalla (on the shoulder).
New director completes his first Boulder Bach Festival (Daily Camera)
By Kelly Dean Hansen
Daily Camera, 3/13/12
Boulder's Bach fans have experienced Rick Erickson's vision of the master, and they like what they hear. With the completion of his first festival week, the new Boulder Bach Festival director has not only given audiences an unusually wide range of the composer's output, but placed it in its original context...
Bach, Beautiful Bach. (Boulder Music Festivals Examiner)
by Aleta Randall
Boulder Music Festivals Examiner, 3/6/12
When I last attended a performance by Boulder Bach Festival, it was the final Chamber Music performance of the Festival’s Season. The 2011/12 Season was the Festival’s 31st, and under the guidance of newly appointed Music Director Rick Erikson’s promethean hand, what a Season it was...
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