For information contact:
Jeffrey Buettner
Music Director and Director of Choral Activities, Middlebury College
buettner@middlebury.edu
Jessica Allen
Co-Founder and Festival Administrator
jessallenemail@yahoo.com
Deborah Young, Music Department Coordinator, Middlebury College
young@middlebury.edu
Photo: Brett Simison
Featuring Special Guest: ARTEK Early Music Ensemble, New York
Middlebury College Alumna, Gwendolyn Toth '77, director
Friday, April 27, 2012
Opening Gala
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Baroque Dance with members of The New York Baroque Dance Co.
Lower Lobby, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Learn and dance a Minuet, Gigue, Bourrée and Double with two members of The New York Baroque Dance Company, or sit and enjoy the spectacle! Live music of J.S. Bach performed by guitarist Eric Despard.
Light hors d’oeuvres
$ Free
Sponsored by the Office of the President of Middlebury College.
Watch New York Baroque Dance Company’s Artistic Director Catherine Turocy perform Passacaille d'Armide to music from Jean Baptiste Lully's opera, Armide (1686).
8:00 – 10:00 PM
Film Screening: “BACH & friends”
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
This documentary by Emmy nominated filmmaker Michael Lawrence features interviews and performances by Joshua Bell, Bobby McFerrin, Philip Glass, Béla Fleck, Hilary Hahn, Emerson String Quartet, Edgar Meyer, Manuel Barrueco, Chris Thile, Simone Dinnerstein, Jake Shimabukuro, The Swingle Singers, John Bayless, Matt Haimovitz, Peter Schickele, Richard Stoltzman, Zuill Bailey, Sid Meier, João Carlos Martins, Felix Hell, Mike Hawley, Uri Caine, Tim Page, Charles J. Limb, M.D., Hilda Huang, Anatoly Larkin, John Q. Walker, Harlan Brothers, Andrew Talle and Christoph Wolff. $ Free
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Interest Sessions and Festival Concert
Session 1: Bach’s Teachers: Composers Who Prepared the Way
10:00 – 10:45 AM
Emory Fanning, Professor Emeritus and College Organist
Mead Chapel
Middlebury College
$ Free
Session 2: Monteverdi and Bach: Imagery and Imagination
11:00 – 11:45 AM
Gwendolyn Toth ’77, Director of ARTEK and Jeffrey Buettner
Mead Chapel
Middlebury College
$ Free
Lunch
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Lower Lobby, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College
$ Free
Session 3: Splendour: The Glorious Age of the Cornetto and Trumpet
1:30 – 2:30 PM
James Miller, Baroque Trumpet Specialist
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College
The presentation will show the similarities and differences between the cornetto and the trumpet, with a special emphasis on Bach's use of the trumpet in the Easter Oratorio. Mr. Miller is principle trumpet for the Middlebury Bach Festival.
$ Free
Bach Unplugged
6:00 –7:30 PM
Eric Despard, Guitarist
51 Main
Middlebury, VT 05753
Join classical guitarist Eric Despard as he unravels some of the most popular music by J.S. Bach and others.
Food and beverage will be available for purchase during the performance.
Festival Concert
8:00 PM
Mead Chapel
Middlebury College
$12/$10/Students Free with Middlebury College ID
Book IV Madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
ARTEK, Gwendolyn Toth ’77, Director and Harpsichord
Intermission
Easter Oratorio, “Kommt, eilet und laufet, ihr flüchtigen Füße” BWV 249
ARTEK soloists, Middlebury College Choir and Festival Orchestra
Jeffrey Buettner, Conductor
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Bach in Middlebury Area Congregations
Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Congregational Church of Middlebury UCC
The First Congregational Church of Cornwall
Memorial Baptist Church
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
United Methodist Church of Middlebury
Organ Concert
2:00 PM
Dr. Emory Fanning, Organist
Mead Chapel
Middlebury College
$ Free
