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General Information
Student Bach Festival Workshop
Bach Festival Faculty Recital
Bach Festival Student Recital
J.S. Bach
Student Bach Festival: Sunday, February 23 (1:00-6:00pm)
Faculty Bach Recital: Saturday, March 15 at 7:00pm
Student Bach Recital: Sunday, March 16

What is Bach Festival?
The Bach Festival speaks to the core of who we are as a school and brings our community together! For those of you who don't know, our school's name, "The Musical Offering," is a collection of canons, fugues, and other pieces of music by J.S. Bach, all based on a single musical theme. Every year we come together for the Bach Festival to celebrate our school and community.
General Infomtion
The Bach Festival is split into 3 Parts:
  • Student Bach Festival: Students workshop a piece for 15 min. with a MO teacher other than their own.
  • Faculty Bach Recital: Faculty members perform a recital with works by Bach or his contemporaries
  • Student Bach Recital: Students who participated in the Student Bach Festival can perform their piece they workshopped at the Bach Festival for this recital.

Keep scrolling for more information about the events!
Student Bach Festival
MO students who are in the process of learning pieces by J.S. Bach, or his sons or contemporaries, may sign up for a 15-minute workshop with a MO teacher other than their own. Your teacher will be able to help you determine if you may play a particiular piece at the Bach Festival. There are only 48 slots available - first come first serve.
Workshop Day
Student Bach Festival Quick Info:
  • Open to all instrumentalists and singers
  • Students may sign up for a 15-minute time slot for a workshop with a MO teacher other than their own
  • This is a drop-off/pick-up event
  • This is not a recital, it's like a mini lesson!
  • Solos, duos, and trios are all welcome
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Bach Festival Faculty Recital
Faculty Recital

Saturday, March 15 at 7:00pm

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1747 witnessed the intersection of Baroque mysticism and Enlightenment-inspired reason in the forms of Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederick the Great of Prussia. Their meeting and clash of philosophies about the role of music in society ultimately resulted in one of the more significant collections of compositions of the 18th century: The Musical Offering​

This faculty recital explores the significance of this meeting of minds and how the future of Western European music was in many ways shaped by it.
  • JS Bach: Suite for Cello in C Minor, BWV 1011
  • GF Handel: Arias "Crude furie degli orridi abissi" from Xerxes and "As with rosy steps" from Theodora
  • Frederick the Great: Sonata for Flute and Continuo in E Minor, SpiF 154
  • JS Bach: Selected Canons from "The Musical Offering
 
Featured faculty artists are...
Sophia Heinz, mezzo-soprano
Caroline Pittman, flute
Veronica Kolegas, cello
Rick Ferguson, piano, harpsichord, and lecturer

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
--Johann Sebastian Bach
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