Bach for Kids
Boulder Bach Festival Has Opportunities for Kids of All Ages
BOULDER BACH FESTIVAL IS FOR KIDS!
“One of the most exciting aspects is that (Music Director) Rick Erickson truly believes that one of his responsibilities is the education of the audience, and particularly, the young people in the audience. I think that it is terrific that a musician in his position wishes to expand the Bach for Kids and the Kids for Bach concerts, and will take the time to do it.”
~Robin McNeil, Opus Colorado
31st Season Events – Free Admission
WOW! Children’s Museum Outreach Concert
On Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 11 a.m., the Boulder Bach Festival trio consisting of violin, flute, and cello will provide an engaging program for kids of all ages and the whole family! Bach’s music will illustrate how the placement of harmonic chords affects melodies and emotion. The audience will participate in harmonizing a melody selecting harmonies from a set of chords.
Kids for Bach
On Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 2 p.m., the annual Kids for Bach concert will be presented at the Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater. This annual event gives students, ages 6 to 18, an opportunity to perform the music of Bach in a free public concert. Student performers from the studios of area music teachers are invited to audition for an opportunity to perform. A panel of area music teachers and performers selects from the entries those students who will be featured in the concert. Each student performer receives a certificate of merit as well as one adult ticket to a spring Festival concert of their choice. In addition, each teacher who submits one or more entries will receives a ticket to a spring Festival concert of their choice.
Letter from Kids for Bach Coordinator (pdf)
2012 Kids for Bach Application (pdf)
Bach for Kids
On Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 2:30 p.m., a special “Bach in the Community” event takes place at the Boulder Public Library with Bach for Kids, an interactive and multidimensional event focused on improvisation, composition, and performance featuring Boulder Bach Festival artists and kids.
These programs are made possible by support from WOW! Children’s Museum and the Boulder Library Foundation.
2011-2012 Season
A Welcome Letter from Music Director Rick Erickson
Dear friends,
It is my great pleasure to invite you to join us for the 31st Season of the Boulder Bach Festival—and to my first season as music director. The Boulder Bach Festival has a distinguished history, and I’m excited to become part of this long line of Boulder Bach lovers! It is my deep desire to see us grow and grow in the time ahead! The history—and potential—are tremendous!
This season promises a rich offering of Bach’s music that includes four splendid cantatas, the complete set of Brandenburg concerti, an organ concert by an award winning young organist, and other stunning works performed by our outstanding roster of artists.
Plus, a new feature. You’re going to be able to drop into a coffee shop, or wine bar, or gallery at various times during Festival Week in March and hear soloists or small ensembles perform in informal settings throughout the city.
My aim is to truly celebrate Bach and his great music with our entire community, and, we hope, introduce new listeners to the richness of this outstanding composer.
I know that you are going to hear some outstanding artists, both from the Front Range and beyond! You will also have opportunities to meet and talk with our principal artists. And, we will spend a day at the Boulder Library celebrating Bach with children. While preserving the best of the Bach Festival in traditional concert halls, we are also expanding our offerings outside to reach new audiences of all ages.
What an exciting season! I hope to see you!
2010-2011 Season
The Boulder Bach Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary with chamber concerts, recitals, a major choral work, lectures, and educational events throughout the 2010-2011 season.
The 30th anniversary season opens with a fall chamber concert on October 24, 2010, at St. John’s Church in Boulder. University of Colorado faculty members Lina Bahn, violin, and Christina Jennings, flute, will showcase their virtuosity together in Bach’s Concerto in C minor, originally scored for violin and oboe. Other works on the program include Autumn from the Four Seasons by Vivaldi, C.P.E. Bach Sonata for Solo Flute in A minor, and the trio from the Musical Offering by J.S. Bach.
The season continues on December 17, 2010, with a Friday afternoon concert in Longmont sponsored by the Longmont Senior Center. Boulder Bach Festival Chamber Singers, an ensemble comprised of members of the Boulder Bach Festival Chorus, will perform works by Bach and Handel. Timothy J. Krueger, the festival chorus director, will conduct. Lina Bahn will be the featured violinist in the instrumental portion of the program.
On February 25, 2011, the festival organ recital features the renowned organist, Christian Lane, currently the assistant university organist and choirmaster at Harvard University. In 2004, Lane earned both second prize and the coveted audience prize at the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition (NYACOP), widely considered to be the country’s preeminent contest in this field.
The centerpiece of this significant anniversary season, the festival itself, runs from March 4 though March 12, 2011. Violinist Krista Bennion Feeney, highly recognized for her solo and ensemble performances in the past two consecutive seasons with the festival, returns as concertmaster. On March 4, 2010, Ann Marie Morgan, viola da gamba, is featured in a chamber concert that includes Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, Sonata No. 3 in G minor for viola da gamba and harpsichord, and Suite No. 6 in D major, performed on piccolo cello. An engaging and informative symposium is scheduled for March 6, 2011, with Charley Samson, classical music radio host for KVOD Colorado Spotlight, as moderator.
Bach’s magnificent Mass in B minor, considered one of the finest major choral works in Western music, is scheduled for the following weekend. Robert Spillman, former music director and now interim music director for the Boulder Bach Festival, will conduct performances at St. John’s Cathedral in Denver and the First United Methodist Church in Boulder, on March 11 and 12, respectively. Timothy J. Krueger will prepare the festival chorus.
2009-2010 Season
The Boulder Bach Festival celebrated J.S. Bach’s 325th birthday with an expanded 2009/2010 season of concerts, recitals, and lectures that paid homage to the genius of the Baroque era and his works for keyboard, instruments, and voice.
This year’s festival was rich with offerings that feature some of Bach’s most famous works along with lesser known gems that define the breadth and depth of his artistry. We were thrilled to welcome back internationally renowned harpsichordist, Jory Vinikour, who wowed last year’s audiences, for a solo recital in November. Master violinist, Krista Bennion Feeney, who left last year’s audiences breathless, returned to our festival in March as concertmaster and soloist.
To complete the complement of outstanding guest artists, the Boulder Bach Festival welcomed former principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Robinson, and organist Andrew Henderson from the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Vocal soloists were soprano MeeAe Nam, professor of voice at Eastern Michigan University, and renowned bass-baritone Nikolas Nackley.
The Festival was proud to have Tim Krueger’s musical expertise in preparing and conducting the festival chorus again this year. Timothy J. Krueger, now in his third season, is the chorus director for the Boulder Bach Festival and artistic director of St. Martin’s Chamber Choir in Denver.
2008-2009 Season
The main events of the 2009 Boulder Bach Festival were an organ concert, a symposium, and two large concerts that united the instrumental and choral music of the master. Timothy Krueger, Boulder Bach Festival chorus director, and Krista Bennion Feeney, violinist, led the March 13th and March 14th concerts of the March 2009 festival.
Krueger, founder and artistic director of the St. Martin’s Chamber Choir in Denver, auditioned and prepared the Boulder Bach Festival chorus for last season’s St. John Passion. This season he again prepared the chorus and conducted two choral works, Lutheran Mass No. 1 in F major and Lutheran Mass No. 2 in A major.
Feeney, the concertmaster of the Orchestra of St Luke’s and the Mostly Mozart Festival, both in New York City, served as guest concertmaster for the festival concerts and performed as soloist and leader of the instrumental works, including the Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and the Brandenburg No 3 in G major.
Annual Boulder Bach Festival Benefit
More details coming soon…
Festival Week Bach Vespers
Cantata BWV 159, Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem
The audience is invited to sing the chorale movement. Rehearsal at 3:45 PM.
Festival Week Season Finale Concert
Cantata BWV 187, Es wartet alles auf dich
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, BWV 1046 | Listen
Motet BWV 230, Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden | Listen
Cantata BWV 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben | Listen
“Bach in the Community” - Bach for Kids Interactive Sessions with Festival Artists
Click here to read a mock brochure about the Choral Scholars Program, based on Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, by Christoph Wolff, and The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach, edited by Raymond Erickson.
Festival Week Chamber Concert
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047 | Listen
Cantata BWV 167, Ihr Menschen, rϋhmet Gottes Liebe, chorale
BWV 654, Schmϋcke dich, O liebe Seele, solo organ | Listen
Mein treuer Heiland, lass dich fragen, bass aria and chorale, from St. John Passion
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049 | Listen
“Bach in the Community” Festival Artist Performances & Colloquium
Organ Recital with Michael Unger in Boulder
PROGRAM
“BACH INSPIRATIONS”
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), transcribed by Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Three Chorale Preludes - Johann Sebastian Bach
Allein Gott in der Hӧh sei Ehr, BWV 662 (from the “Great Eighteen”)
Kommst du Nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650 (from the Schübler Chorales)
Wir gläuben all’ an einen Gott, BWV 680 (from Clavierübung III)
Trio en Passacaille (from Livre d’Orgue, 1688) - André Raison
Passacaglia, BWV 582 - Johann Sebastian Bach
~INTERMISSION~
Studien für den Pedal-Flϋgel, Op. 56, 1845 - Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Nicht zu schnell
Mit innigem Ausdruck
Andantino
Innig
Nicht zu schnell
Adagio
Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, 1870 - Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Organ Recital with Michael Unger in Denver
PROGRAM
“BACH INSPIRATIONS”
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), transcribed by Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Three Chorale Preludes - Johann Sebastian Bach
Allein Gott in der Hӧh sei Ehr, BWV 662 (from the “Great Eighteen”)
Kommst du Nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650 (from the Schübler Chorales)
Wir gläuben all’ an einen Gott, BWV 680 (from Clavierübung III)
Trio en Passacaille (from Livre d’Orgue, 1688) - André Raison
Passacaglia, BWV 582 - Johann Sebastian Bach
~INTERMISSION~
Studien für den Pedal-Flϋgel, Op. 56, 1845 - Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Nicht zu schnell
Mit innigem Ausdruck
Andantino
Innig
Nicht zu schnell
Adagio
Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, 1870 - Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
“Bach in the Community” - Kids for Bach Concert
Click here to read a mock brochure about the Choral Scholars Program, based on Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, by Christoph Wolff, and The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach, edited by Raymond Erickson.
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