Hudson Valley BachFest
The Hudson
Valley Society for Music
presents the 11th annual
Hudson Valley
BachFest
August
27, 28 & 29, 2010
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here to view/print brochure
Friday, August 27:
Keyboard Marathon
Bach Partitas
7:30 p.m.
Suggested donation $8
Cornwall Presbyterian Church
222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson
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Saturday, August 28:
Young Performers' Concert
3:00 p.m.
Free-will donation appreciated!
Cornwall Presbyterian Church
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"Great Opening Choral Movements
and Sinfonias from Bach's Cantatas"
Cantata No. 80, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott
Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf,
ruft uns die Stimme
BachFest Choir & Orchestra
directed by Laura Ramsey Russell
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10 general admission
Children under 12 free
Christ Episcopal Church
20 Carroll Street,
Poughkeepsie
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Sunday, August 29:
Bach Chamber Concert
featuring Bach's motet
Jesu Meine Freude
and Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor
BachFest Chamber Choir &
Chamber Orchestra
directed by Edward Lundergan
3:00 p.m.
Tickets $10 general admission
Children under 12 free
Cornwall Presbyterian Church
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Bach Church Services
Sunday, August 29
West Point Cadet Chapel
Highland Falls, NY
(click
here for directions)
10:30 a.m.
Craig Williams, Organist and Choir Master
Jennifer Ponzoni, alto
Anthony Cinelli, tenor
“Et misericordia” from Magnificat
Bach harmonizations of hymns
“Wie selig sind die doch” from Cantata 80
“Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär’” from Cantata 80
Fugue in E-flat Major (“St. Anne”)
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Christ Episcopal Church
20 Carroll Street,
Poughkeepsie, NY
(click
here for directions)
10:00 a.m.
Laura Ramsey Russell, Organist and Choir Director
Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1038
Gamba Sonata No. 2 in D Major
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor
Bach harmonizations of hymns
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New Paltz United Methodist Church
1 Grove Street, New Paltz, NY
10:00 a.m.
Lee H. Pritchard, Director of Music
Pre-Service Concert beginning
at 9:45 a.m.
All service music and hymns by or attributed to Bach
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St. John's Lutheran Church
55
Wilbur Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY
9:30 a.m.
Susan Guse, Organist and Choir Director
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Cornwall Presbyterian Church
222 Hudson
Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
(click
here for directions)
9:00 a.m.
Ruthanne Schempf, Organist and Choir Director
Marjorie Schempf, Handbell Choir Director
Praeludium 22 from
Well-Tempered Clavier - Handbell Choir (arrangement by
Brensinger)
"God's Word Shall Be Our Only Plan" - Chancel Choir (from
Cantata 80, "Ein feste Burg")
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St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Lithgow
692 Deep Hollow Road, Millbrook, NY
9:30 a.m.
Nancy Vanderlee, Music Director
Adagio in a
from Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C BWV 564
"Little" Prelude in D BWV 553/a
Fantasia in C BWV 570
Hymn "Ein fest Burg" harmonized by Bach
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Grace Episcopal Church
58 North Street, Middletown, NY
10:30 a.m.
Boyd Herforth, Organist
Nancy Herforth, soprano
Prelude:
Prelude in A minor
Offertory: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Communion: O Love that Casts Out Fear
Postlude: Fugue in A minor
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Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church
1168 Route 55 and Stringham Road, LaGrangeville, NY
10:00 a.m.
Kevin
Donnelly, Music Director
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The Episcopal Church of St.
Mary-in-the-Highlands
1 Chestnut Street (corner of Routes 9D and 301), Cold Spring, NY
10:30 a.m.
The
Reverend Fr Shane Scott-Hamblen, BMus, STB, MA, STL, Rector
Christopher King, Organist/Director of Music
Prelude: Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor
Kurt Briggs, violin
Christopher King, organ
Offertory Solo: Violin Sonata
Communion: "Wiederstehe doch der Stunde" (Cantata 54)
Simon Scott-Hamblen, treble
Shane Scott-Hamblen, continuo
Organ Postlude: "When We Are in Deepest Need"
Christopher King, organ
The Hudson Valley BachFest is an annual weekend marathon of four concerts and multiple church
services celebrating the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Part of the
festival takes place in Poughkeepsie (Dutchess County) and part in
Cornwall-on-Hudson (Orange County). For directions to Christ Episcopal
Church and Cornwall Presbyterian Church click
here.
For a comprehensive listing of Bach's cantatas
and other vocal works, including texts, translations, scores, articles and
performers, click
here.
For information, call:
Dr. Laura
Ramsey Russell: (845) 485-1648
Dr.
Ruthanne Schempf: (845) 534-2166
Emily Faxon: (845) 534-8368
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