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This July we celebrate an extraordinary milestone—the 75th anniversary of this remarkable Festival. Many of you will have heard or experienced the buzz of excitement emanating from the Peninsula during the 2011 Festival; we are now looking forward to the chance to build on our considerable successes to make the 75th anniversary a celebration to remember!
This year offers us a wonderful opportunity to look both forward to innovative programming and back to greatly respected traditions. With the theme
Bach: Spheres of Influence, Festival programs will explore the impact of J.S. Bach by juxtaposing his music with works from England, Europe, Russia, Mexico, South America, and the United States.
We open Saturday night with a grand scale performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass and follow this on Sunday afternoon with a rare performance of Handel's magnificent oratorio, Alexander's Feast, depicting the exoticism of Persia and the futility of power and war. Hidden within the fabric of this oratorio, and alongside Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3, will be a commissioned work by the distinctive American composer Curt Cacioppo.
Monday nights see Concertmaster Peter Hanson return with a spectacular baroque concert of Italian concerti and concerti grossi, Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 featuring Janet See on baroque flute and some contrasting tango music.
Where would we be without the wit and entertainment of David Gordon? This year he reveals in our Tuesday night concerts the styles and themes from the last 75 years in a startling and fascinating mélange ending with the finale to Mozart's Magic Flute.
On Wednesday evenings the ever popular Mission concert moves to the larger Sunset Theater for a sumptuous program of South American and Mexican choral music coupled with Bach’s exquisite Mass in G Minor, skillfully directed by Festival Chorale Director Andrew Megill.
Thursday nights continue our new and very successful crossover series, bringing in artists from other disciplines who also share with us a love of J.S. Bach. This year it is the turn of the virtuosic mandolin duo, Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg, two of the top players in the U.S. and Europe. They will delight you with Bach and Vivaldi, bluegrass and Bulgarian folk music accompanied by a quintet of our Festival strings.
Friday nights bring the grand orchestral concert which highlights the Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4, rounding off the complete cycle of his orchestral suites performed during this Festival, a Stravinsky neo-baroque masterpiece in the form of the Pulcinella Suite and probably the first ever period style performance in America of Brahms's glorious Second Symphony.
Interspersed with the major concerts we will weave our delightful mix of chamber concerts and solo recitals and I look forward to continuing our successful open rehearsal format, hoping to bring the music ever closer.
Finally, we complete the 75th Anniversary celebration with our popular "Best of the Fest" concert, enabling you to relive your favorite moments of the Festival.
I hope so much that you will join us in July to experience a truly celebratory Festival with exciting themes interwoven to ravish the ear and expand the mind.
- Paul Goodwin, Music Director and Conductor
Musical Pairings: A 75th Anniversary Gala Celebration
Gorgeous Carmel Valley Ranch sets the stage for the glittering Gala that launches the Festival’s 75th anniversary season! Join us for this once-in-a-lifetime party where spheres of influence are expressed in the musical and culinary pairings of famed guest Pianist Stephen Prutsman, award-winning Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux, and the Ranch’s acclaimed Executive Chef Tim Wood.
Prutsman, a consummate innovator of musical fusion, was received with tremendous enthusiasm during the 2011 season. Hailed for her radiant, effortless singing and diversity of repertoire, Lamoreaux, a favorite Festival soloist
from the 90s, makes a joyful return. The unique talents of Chef Tim promise culinary adventures nourished from the area's freshest and best ingredients.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2012 | 6:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M. WINE, HORS D’OEUVRES, DINNER, MUSIC, & LIVE AUCTION
Transportation available to the Ranch from Sunset Center.
Also: Special stay and play packages available at Carmel Valley Ranch.
GUEST ARTISTSIn addition to the nearly 100 orchestral and choral musicians the Festival welcomes to Carmel each summer, we are delighted to welcome the following guest artists.
Baroque trumpet specialist Robert Farley will lead the trumpet section throughout the Festival and baroque flute specialist Janet See performs in Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 on Monday nights.
This year’s crossover concert features the virtuosic mandolin duo, Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg.
The works of American composer Curt Cacioppo, engaged for the Festival’s second annual Carmel Commission, have been presented around the globe and honored by a 1997 lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
We are pleased to welcome back vocal soloists Kendra Colton, soprano, Clara Rottsolk, soprano, Thomas Cooley, tenor, and Alexander Dobson, baritone, and are delighted to introduce Robin Blaze, world-renowned countertenor established in the front rank of interpreters of Purcell, Bach, and Handel.
box office informationMain Concerts
Best of Fest
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PURCHASING TICKETS Refer to order form on the reverse side and place your order one of 4 ways:
1) MAIL: CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE P.O. Box 575, Carmel, CA 93921
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4) IN PERSON: FESTIVAL OFFICE (Cottage 16, Mission & 10th, Carmel) Monday-Friday ............. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
There are no box office hours at Sunset Center for Bach Festival ticket purchases from January through June.
PRICINGMAIN CONCERTS
SECT A $76 SECT B $70 SECT C $55 SECT D $40
BEST OF FEST
SECT A $128 SECT B $118 SECT C $98
Dear Festival goers: We have re-structured our pricing to provide three ranges instead of one for the best seats in the house. A fourth price range expands the number of better seats available in the lowest priced section. This provides greater access to the Festival experience while retaining special attention to your favorite seats.
For specific seat information, please visit our website at bachfestival.org.
NO REFUNDSIf you are unable to attend a performance, we encourage you to exchange your tickets for another event. You may also donate your tickets to the Festival. Please call the Festival office for more information.
PATRONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS Accessible seating is available at all venues. Please indicate your specific needs when ordering your tickets. Early arrival is recommended.
Chamber & Recital VenuesGeneral Admission Seating
CARMELAll Saints Church | Dolores & 9th (AS)Sunset Center Theater | San Carlos & 9th (ST)
PEBBLE BEACH Church in the Forest | 3152 Forest Lake Road (CF)
MONTEREYSan Carlos Cathedral | 500 Church Street (CC)Wave Street Studios | 774 Wave Street (WS)
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special note on the CARMEL MISSION BASILICA
Due to renovation projects at the Carmel Mission, the traditional Wednesday night concerts will be held at the Sunset Center in 2012.
W E L C O M E T O O U R
Anniversary Festival75th
New Ticket PricingIn order to match the growing demand for tickets from a diversity of audiences within the communities we serve,
the Festival has re-scaled its pricing at Sunset Center from two to four options. See box office information for details.
VIENNESE MATINÉE CONCERTANTESaturdays | July 21 & 28 | 11:00 am | Sunset TheaterA mainly Mozart program of virtuosity and charm featuring Festival soloists Emlyn Ngai, violin, Roger Cole, oboe, and Christopher Cooper, horn, along with 13 other members of the Festival Orchestra. Selections include Mozart’s Serenade for Orchestra in D Major, K. 250, “Haffner” and Concerto in C Major for Oboe, and Michael Haydn’s Horn Concerto in D Major.
A F T E R N O O N
SCHUBERT’S WINTERREISE Mondays | July 16 & 23 | 2:30pm All Saints ChurchRenowned baritone Alexander Dobson performs Schubert’s monumental song cycle in its entirety in a unique arrangement for baritone and string ensemble.
OCCUPY 1720 Tuesdays | July 17 & 24 | 1:00pm | Sunset Center FoyerSongs of speculative bubbles, market collapses, political corruption, war, and people behaving badly—in short, the dismal science made fun.... Music by Handel, Conti, St. Luc, Purcell, and Anonymous.
BORROWED BAROQUE: INSPIRING PULCINELLATuesdays | July 17 & 24 | 2:30pm All Saints Church
Mentre l’erbetta pasce l’agnella from Il Flaminio ......... Pergolesi Sinfonia in F Major for Cello Solo .............................. PergolesiPièces modernes pour le clavecin .............................. Carlo MonzaTrio Sonatas............................................................ GalloConcerto Armonico No. 2 in B-flat Major ................... Wassenaer
Performed by Tenor Thomas Cooley and others, a delightful sampler of the baroque originals that formed the basis for Stravinsky’s famous ballet.
DUELING MANDOLINSWednesdays | July 18 & 25 | 2:30pm | All Saints ChurchMike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg will perform a selection of music from Brazilian to Bach on mandolin and mandocello, including music by the Italian Raffaele Calace, one of the greatest mandolin virtuosos of all time, and an original work by Marshall himself.
SONGS OF THE SPIRITThursdays | July 19 & 26 | 2:30pm | All Saints ChurchHermit Songs ......................................................... BarberThe Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 ................... BrittenFive Mystical Songs ................................................. Vaughan WilliamsDie junge Nonne, Nachtstück, Litanei ........................ Schubert
An afternoon of lieder based on mystical poetry, presented by Andrew Megill and members of the Festival Chorale.
ITALIAN SEASONINGFridays | July 20 & 27 | 2:30pm | All Saints ChurchChamber music for strings ranging from the sublime to the ludicrous, including Haydn's Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5, Boccherini's Quintet in F Major, Op. 39, No. 2, and Rossini's Sonata in C Major.
VIRGINIA BEST ADAMS MASTER CLASS SHOWCASESaturday | July 28 | 1:30pm | Sunset Theater Four emerging vocal stars from our Master Class program, chosen from hundreds of applicants from around the world, perform vocal Baroque masterpieces with members of the Festival Orchestra.
T W I L I G H T
TWILIGHT TRIOS OF THE BAROQUEWednesday | July 18 | 5:00pm | Church in the ForestGuest baroque flutist Janet See and violinist Peter Hanson present a rich assortment of baroque trio sonatas.
PICCOLO MONDOSaturday | July 21 | 4:00pm | All Saints ChurchThe Festival Youth Chorus sings on the fringes with choral music from many lands and cultures, conducted by Youth Chorus Director John Koza.
TWILIGHT QUINTETSWednesday | July 25 | 5:00pm | Church in the ForestViolinist Peter Hanson leads an ensemble presenting Mozart's Quintet in C Major, K. 515 and Haydn's The Heavens Are Telling from The Creation.
TWILIGHT BACHThursdays | July 19 & 26 | 5:00pm San Carlos Cathedral
World-renowned Countertenor Robin Blaze performs in a program of Purcell songs and Bach masterpieces led from the harpsichord by Principal Harpsichordist Andrew Arthur including the Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066 and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050.
C A N D L E L I G H T
ROMANTIC STRINGSSunday | July 15 | 8:30pm | Sunset TheaterSextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 ................................ BrahmsAllegro con spirito from String Sextet in D Minor, Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 .................... Tchaikovsky
Two brilliant works for string sextet displaying two distinct styles of Romanticism.
THE MASS IN B MINORSATURDAYS | July 14 & 21 | 8:00pm
Paul Goodwin, conductor; Festival Orchestra, Chorale, and Chorus; Soloists.
J.S. Bach assembled many of his own favorite works to create the Mass in B Minor—with instrumental and vocal solos, duets and soaring choruses, all brought together in the most uplifting masterpiece of Bach’s career. Part of the Festival repertoire since the 1930s, this is a grand scale performance using the full forces of the Festival Chorale, Chorus and Orchestra.
THE POWER OF MUSIC, OLD AND NEWSUNDAYS | July 15 & 22 | 2:30pm
Paul Goodwin, conductor; Festival Orchestra and Chorale; Soloists;
Alexander’s Feast .............................. HandelA Meeting of Souls ........................... CacioppoOrchestral Suite No. 3 in .................... Bach D Major, BWV 1068
The exoticism of Persia is depicted in Handel's triumphant oratorio, Alexander’s Feast (or The Power of Music), which examines the power of music to provoke desire, sorrow, heroism and irrational violence, before ultimately portraying music as the harmonization of human passion with universal order. It is fitting that Bach’s best known orchestral suite is paired here along with the distinctive voice of American composer Curt Cacioppo, whose commissioned work is hidden within the fabric of the evening.
PETER HANSON GOES ITALIAN MONDAYS | July 16 & 23 | 8:00pm
Peter Hanson, concertmaster and director; baroque flute specialist Janet See; members of the Festival Strings.
Concertmaster Peter Hanson leads an all-string evening of Italian Baroque + Bach, and a little Argentinean spice. Includes works by Corelli, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Piazzolla, plus Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 and Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067.
INSIDE THE MUSIC: 75 YEARS OF THE CARMEL BACH FESTIVALTUESDAYS | July 17 & 24 | 8:00pm Paul Goodwin, conductor; David Gordon, narrator; Fest ival Orchestra, Chorale, and Chorus; Solois t s .
With four centuries of music selected from the Festival archives, conductor Paul Goodwin and narrator David Gordon lead you on a tour of 75 years of glorious music-making at the Carmel Bach Festival. The narrated concert features words and images from the past, concluding with the uplifting finale to Mozart’s glorious Magic Flute.
CATHEDRAL OF ANGELSWEDNESDAYS | July 18 & 25 | 8:00pm
Andrew Megi l l , conductor; Fest ival Chorale and Chorus; members of the Fest ival Orchestra.
An evening of South American and Mexican choral music from the 16th to 20th centuries, from Leipzig to Lima, alongside Bach's musical gem of devotion based on his earlier cantatas, the Mass in G Minor, BWV 235.
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BAROQUE TO BLUEGRASS THURSDAYS | July 19 & 26 8:00pm Mike Marshal l and Caterina Lichtenberg, mandol in; members of the Fest ival Str ings.
An exciting multi-instrumentalist, brilliantly original performer, and composer of bluegrass, classical and jazz, Mike Marshall together with his wife Caterina Lichtenberg, Germany’s great classical mandolinist, lead a program of music from baroque to bluegrass – including a Bach double concerto, Vivaldi, bluegrass, and Bulgarian folk music.
MUSIC OF DANCEFRIDAYS | July 20 and 27 | 8:00pm Paul Goodwin, conductor; Fest ival Orchestra.
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major, BWV 1069 ............... Bach Pulcinella: Suite ........................................................ Stravinsky Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 ............................ Brahms
One of the first ever period style performances in the U.S. by an American orchestra of Brahms's glorious Symphony No. 2. Natural horns, trumpets and trombones will complement our strings and woodwinds for a light and dance-like texture that showcases Brahms's folk and baroque musical heritage. Complemented by Bach's most complex orchestral suite, and Stravinsky's neo baroque masterpiece, Pulcinella.
Chamber Concerts & Recitals
P R E - F E S T I V A L
BACH TO BEETHOVENWednesday | July 11 | 5:00pm | Church in the ForestA new pre-Festival tradition! Enjoy violin and keyboard works including the Bach Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1017 and the Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24, "Spring," in the intimate setting of Church in the Forest. Emlyn Ngai, violin; Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord and fortepiano.
M O R N I N G
BACH ON THE ORGANMondays | July 16 & 23 | 11:00am | Church in the Forest Andrew Arthur continues his popular survey of Bach’s great organ works, this year performing his own sparkling keyboard transcriptions of concerti and trios by Italian, French and German baroque masters.
WOMEN ON THE VERGEFridays | July 20 & 27 | 11:00am | Wave Street Studios Songs from 17th-century Spain and Italy emoting desire and betrayal to folly and madness, along with solos from leading theorbo and baroque guitar composers. Daniel Swenberg, theorbo and baroque quitar; Clara Rottsolk, soprano; Angelique Zuluaga, soprano.
SPECIAL EVENTS & ITEMS Date (circle) # Venue Price TOTAL
Friday 6:00 pm 75th Anniversary Gala dinner 7/13 CVR $250
Sunday 8:30 pm Rachmaninoff Vespers 7/22 ST $41*
Art Raffle tickets: $5 each or book of 7 for $30 $5 | $30
75th Anniversary Commemorative Program Book $10
MAIN CONCERTS Sect A | Sect B | Sect C | Sect D
Saturday 8:00 pm The Mass in B Minor 7/14 | 7/21 ST $76* | $70* | $55* | $40*
Sunday 2:30 pm The Power of Music, Old and New 7/15 | 7/22 ST $76* | $70* | $55* | $40*
Monday 8:00 pm Peter Hanson goes Italian 7/16 | 7/23 ST $76* | $70* | $55* | $40*
Tuesday 8:00 pm Inside the Music: 75 years of the Carmel Bach Festival 7/17 | 7/24 ST $76* | $70* | $55* | $40*
Wednesday 8:00 pm Cathedral of Angels 7/18 | 7/25 ST $76* | $70* | $55* | $40*
Thursday 8:00 pm Baroque to Bluegrass 7/19 | 7/26 ST $76* | $70* | $55* | $40*
Friday 8:00 pm Music of the Dance 7/20 | 7/27 ST $76* | $70* | $55* | $40*
Saturday 8:00 pm Best of the Fest 7/28 ST $128* | $118* | $98* | na
CHAMBER CONCERTS & RECITALSPre-fes t iva lWednesday 5:00 pm Bach to Beethoven 7/11 CF $39
MorningMonday 11:00 am Bach on the Organ 7/16 | 7/23 CF $29
Friday 11:00 am Women on the Verge 7/20 | 7/27 WS $29
Saturday 11:00 am Viennese Matinée Concertante 7/21 | 7/28 ST $31*
AfternoonMonday 2:30 pm Schubert's Winterreise 7/16 | 7/23 AS $29
Tuesday 1:00 pm Occupy 1720 7/17 | 7/24 ST (F) $31*
Tuesday 2:30 pm Borrowed Baroque: Inspiring Pulcinella 7/17 | 7/24 AS $29
Wednesday 2:30 pm Dueling Mandolins 7/18 | 7/25 AS $29
Thursday 2:30 pm Songs of the Spirit 7/19 | 7/26 AS $29
Friday 2:30 pm Italian Seasoning 7/20 | 7/27 AS $29
Saturday 1:30 pm Virginia Best Adams Master Class Showcase 7/28 ST $27*
Twil ightWednesday 5:00 pm Twilight Trios of the Baroque 7/18 CF $39
Thursday 5:00 pm Twilight Bach 7/19 | 7/26 CC $39
Saturday 4:00 pm Piccolo Mondo: Youth Chorus 7/21 AS $21
Wednesday 5:00 pm Twilight Quintets 7/25 CF $39
Candlel ight Sunday 8:30 pm Romantic Strings 7/15 ST $41*
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RACHMANINOFF VESPERSSunday | July 22 | 8:30pm | Sunset Theater
A rare performance in Carmel of this monumental work for a cappella chorus. Andrew Megill directs the Festival Chorus and Chorale in All-night
Vigil, also known as Vespers, praised as Rachmaninoff's finest achievement and the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Programs subject to change. Programs subject to change.