Robert Lehmann
returns to the White Mountain Musical Arts Bach Festival as conductor for the 2010 season.
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Frequently Asked Questions:
Q. How early should I arrive to get a seat?
A. For the Episcopal Church and Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center venues there is plenty of General seating. Bear in mind that a large part of our audience comes for the concert previews which begin a half hour before most concerts.
Q. Is there adequate parking?
A. At the Episcopal Church there is adequate parking between the Mt. Washington Weather Center lot and the nearby John Fuller School. At the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center there is plenty of parking.
Q. Do I need to purchase tickets in Advance?
A.Advance ticket sales for the Conductor's Circle and Mid Section are encouraged. However, Mid Section and General seating tickets are available at the door.
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Bach is Beautiful at any Age
Since the 18th century, there has been a fascination and basic enjoyment of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach by people of all ages and backgrounds.
Happily, this fact holds true here in the Mt. Washington Valley as the 17th Annual Bach Festival, presented by the White Mountain Musical Arts, takes shape for presentation of
five performances August 25th through August 28th.
Considered a prolific Baroque composer, Bach wrote music for all types of instruments and chamber groups as well as five cycles of church cantatas for every Sunday of the year
and including special holy days!
Bridging the 17th an 18th centuries, Bach’s compositions are played by every beginning piano student, are represented in most church hymnbooks, and heard at live
performances throughout the world every year.
However, there are only a handful of presentations, especially in the Northeast, where a full festival of music is devoted exclusively to the music of Bach, and we are
fortunate to be the location of one of those two or three festivals every year in the Mt. Washington Valley.
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 Ray CornilsORGANIST Ray Cornils is the Municipal Organist for the City of Portland and is also Minister of Music at Parish Church, UCC in Brunswick, Maine. A member of the music faculties of Bowdoin College and the University of Southern Maine, he also teaches organ, harpsichord and related classes. Mr. Cornils graduated from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Ray has concertized throughout the United States and in Germany, France, Spain, Russia, Ecuador and New Zealand. He has performed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia’s famed Wanamaker Organ. He has been a featured recitalist for convention so the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. He performs regularly with the Portland Symphony and Musica Tricinia, a group of two trumpets and organ. The 22nd Bach Festival Opening Concert will take place at Christ Church, Episcopal, Main Street, North Conway on the Casavant free-standing, two manual tracker organ. Concert ~ Sunday afternoon, August 22 at 4 PM Christ Church, Episcopal, North Conway Organist, Ray Cornils Casavant Tracker Organ |
  
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VENUES, CONCERT TIMES, and PROGRAM
Four different musical offerings will be spread over two weekends.
Sunday August 22:
Bach Organ Recital, Christ Church Episcopal, North Conway, 4:00Ray Cornils, Organist
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, August 27 - 29:
Choral and Instrumental programs, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg, Maine
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| The 22nd Annual Bach Festival, presented by the White Mountain Musical Arts, will continue to present several opportunities
to hear and learn about Bach and his fellow-composers and the wonderful chamber music of the Baroque era.
Approximately eighty musicians, professional and amateur, will gather for the four-day event to perform the great instrumental and vocal works of the Baroque masters.
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Friday ~ Saturday ~ Sunday
Three major concert performances are scheduled for the Bach Festival on
Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 PM, and Sunday 4 PM, all at
the first-rate venue for the Bach Festival, the air-conditioned
Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy, just over the border in Fryeburg, Maine.
Each of the concerts will feature a concert preview one-half hour
before the concert begins. Both works for soloists and small ensembles
as well as larger works for full chamber orchestra and chorus are
scheduled for performance at this year's Festival.
The full Bach Festival Chorus, soloists and orchestra will bring
the 2010 Bach Festival to a close on Sunday afternoon.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Christ Church, Episcopal
North Conway, NH
All Bach Organ Recital. 4:00 p.m.
Ray Cornils, organist
(Program TBA)
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center
Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, ME
Festival Preview 7:00 p.m. Concert 7:30 p.m.
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BWV 1049 J. S. Bach
Allegro - Andante - Presto
Robert Lehmann, violin Peggy Vagts, flute I Doris Henney, flute II
Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor BWV 1043 J. S. Bach
Vivace - Largo ma non tanto - Allegro
Mark Paxson, violin I Zoia Bologovsky, violin II
~~ INTERMISSION ~~
Sonata for Violin J-M Leclair
Zoia Bologovsky, violin
Sonate St. Marc for Trumpet T. Albinoni
Barbara Prugh, trumpet
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BWV 1050 J. S. Bach
Allegro - Affettuoso - allegro
Frank Glazer, piano - Flute, TBA
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center
Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, ME
Opera Preview 6:45 p.m.
Prof. Ellen Chickering, University of Southern Maine
Concert 7:30 p.m.
Acis and Galatea G. F. Handel
A Pastorale in Two Acts
Soloists
Galatea, Ashley Emerson, soprano
Acis, Brendan Daly, tenor
Damon, Bruce Fithian, tenor
Polyphemus, John D. Adams, bass-baritone
Sinfonia & Act I
~~ INTERMISSION ~~
Act II
Chorus
Mary Bastoni-Rebmann, soprano
Emily Marvosh, soprano
Bruce Fithian, tenor
Tenor II, TBA
John D. Adams, bass-baritone
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
United Church of Christ
Main St. North Conway, NH
Baroque Prelude at 9:30 with the Service at 10:00 with instrumental and vocal soloists & Festival Choir.
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Leura Eastman Hill Performing Arts Center
Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, ME
Concert Preview 3:30 p.m. Concert 4:00 p.m.
Motet BWV 230 Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden J . S. Bach
WMMA Festival Chorus
Prelude & Fugue No. XVIII in G# Minor J. S. Bach
From Well-tempered Clavichord, Book II
Wilson Gabriel Bristol, piano
Concerto for Violin No. 1 in A Minor BWV 1041 J. S. Bach
Allegro moderato - Andante - Allegro assai
Robert Lehmann, violin
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major BWV 1069 J. S. Bach
(Overture) - Bouree I - Bouree II - Gavotte
Menuet I - Menuet II - Réjouissance
~~ INTERMISSION ~~
Concerto for Keyboard in D Minor, BWV1052 J. S. Bach
Allegro - Adagio - Allegro
Frank Glazer, piano
Cantata BWV 110 Unser mund sei voll Lachens J. S. Bach
Ashley Emerson, soprano
Emily Marvosh, mezzo soprano
Brendan Daly, tenor
John D. Adams, bass-baritone
WMMA Festival Chorus & Orchestra
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FOR INFORMATION AND BIOS ON SOLOISTS,
Please
Check back.
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Seating and Ticket Offerings
Three types of seating will be available at the 7:30 PM performances
at both the air-conditioned Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center on
Friday, Saturday and 4 PM on Sunday as well as at the Organ Recital on Sunday August 22, at 4:00 PM.
In addition, single tickets for each concert are available,
as well as a 4-Concert Pass - which offers the opportunity
to attend all 4 concerts for the price of 3.
The total cost of single tickets and 4-Concert Passes
vary according to the area of seating chosen.
Tickets are available for order on the web,
or for purchase at ticket locations in North Conway, NH
Type of Seating:
Conductor's Circle - limited seating in the front
Mid-Section
General Seating
Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, Maine
Host sponsor
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Single Concert Tickets:
Conductor's Circle ~ $25
Mid-Section ~ $17
General Seating ~ $10
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4-Concert Pass: (4 concerts for the price of 3)
Conductor's
Circle ~ $75
Mid-Section ~ $51
General Seating ~ $30
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Comments from past WMMA Bach Festivals
“Congratulations on another successful Festival.”
H. Lieberman, Boston, MA
“I attended every event; the entire Festival was marvelous.”
M. Shea, North Conway, NH
“It was a magnificent weekend at the Bach Festival. I hope you can continue the same programming and venue.”
B. Cabot, Sudbury, MA
“The Festival was great fun and super music.”
M. Herlehey, Strafford, NH
“Everything was wonderful.”
P. & M. Domaingue, Westfield, MA
“It was a wonderful weekend of great music.”
B. Taylor, North Conway, NH
“What a wonderful job you did for this outstanding Festival.”
M. Lamb, North Conway, NH
“We want to tell you how much we enjoyed the Saturday evening concert. All the participants are very talented musicians and we look forward to attending the Festival again.”
S. & E. Parzych, Sturbridge, MA
“What an amazing job you have done to create this great event in New Hampshire’s north country.”
C. Sanbourn, Canterbury, NH
“Congratulations on a great Festival. The church service was awesome.”
D. Jones, North Conway, NH
“What a great weekend of music and a really wonderful festival.”
C. Russell, Conway, NH
“The entire weekend of great music was outstanding.”
W. & R. Swift, Shamong, NJ
“Thank you…for the many hours, days, weeks, months that you have put time and energy into making yet another Bach Festival. So successful!”
K. Schmauch, North Conway, NH
“Congratulations on another great festival! If the crowds keep growing you may have to move it to Boston.”
T. Vinson, Gainesville, FL
“We are delighted to be able to contribute again this year to the Bach Festival.”
A. C. Millar, Darien, CT
"The popularity of the concert previews is evident by the fact that most seats are taken by the time the previews begin."
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| White Mountain Musical Arts is extremely grateful to Fryeburg Academy and the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center for the use of their facility. |
We thank Northway Bank for its generous support in underwriting our 2010 season.
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| We also extend our appreciation to these additional local supporters who help us in so many ways:
Leone, McDonnell and Roberts, PA - Brian Kelsch
North Conway Rotary
Northway Bank
Chuck Roast - Chuck Henderson
Goldberg Charitable Foundation
Pequawket Charitable Foundation
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