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OBF Press Room: 2005 Season

Press Releases

Fest Hits High Notes, Looks Ahead to Mozart

Premieres, diversity, and high artistic achievement marked the 36th Oregon Bach Festival, but staff needs to address a decline in ticket sales.

Bach Party Internationale

Indulge in a sensory experience of sights, sounds, and shopping. Join us for the third annual Bach Party, at Eugene’s Fifth Street Public Market.

Paris-based Conductor Gets Handel

The Festival welcomes famed choral conductor John Nelson as a guest conductor for the July 7th performance of Handel’s L’Allegro.

Christmas Oratorio

Have Christmas your way this summer -- see a little bit 'o' Bach or a whole lotta Bach.

Students, Families: Free Concerts & Special Prices

Student discounts and children’s concerts are a big part of the Festival's programming.

Two Premieres Headline '05 Festival

Bach's abuzz about a Latino Passion and a rediscovered opera

Mendelssohn Symposium Offers Music and Jewish Perspective

Two free events on the UO campus will focus on Mendelssohn's music and life in the context of German history.

La Pasión Returns to its Birthplace

Grown from a relationship started in Eugene, Osvaldo Golijov's fiery Latino Pasión opens the 2005 Festival.

Rilling Brings Mendelssohn’s Lost Uncle to America

An accomplished comic opera—composed by Mendelssohn at age 14—is rediscovered and gets its American premiere this summer in Eugene.

Conducting Master Class Now Enrolling

Applications are now being accepted for the 2005 Oregon Bach Festival Master Class in Choral Conducting.

Rilling Conducts Free Concert Oct 31

Helmuth Rilling caps his week-long residency at the UO School of Music with a free public performance of Bach and Mozart.

Articles & Features

Joyous Bach: From big events to small, maestro Helmuth Rilling aims to bring out the joy

By Paul Denison The Register-Guard "Feel the Joy'' is the theme of the 36th Oregon Bach Festival, which opens Thursday and runs through July 10. Major concerts that obviously fit the theme include the comic opera that Felix Mendelssohn wrote...

The Passion, to a Latin beat

The Oregonian's David Stabler previews La Pasion and the Festival

Bach Festival choir avoids a sour note

By Bob Welch Columnist, The Register-Guard As executive director of the Oregon Bach Festival, Royce Saltzman has done his share of backstage maneuvering to help get visas for foreign choirs singing at the annual Eugene event.

Reviews

A masterful rendition of 'The Creation'

Review from The Register-Guard.

Organ master Zerer does Bach proud

Review from The Register-Guard

L'Allegro: Apt music for troubled times

Review from The Register-Guard

Young Mendelssohn's opera well-sung

Review from The Register-Guard

Venezuelan choir takes audience on wild ride

Review from The Register-Guard

'Christmas Oratorio' is one joy after another

Review from The Register-Guard

Ya-Fei Chuang's charming intimacy

Review from The Register-Guard

Perfection eludes `Pasión' premiere

Review from The Register-Guard
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