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OBF Press Room: 2005 SeasonPress Releases Fest Hits High Notes, Looks Ahead to MozartPremieres, diversity, and high artistic achievement marked the 36th Oregon Bach Festival, but staff needs to address a decline in ticket sales.Bach Party InternationaleIndulge in a sensory experience of sights, sounds, and shopping. Join us for the third annual Bach Party, at Eugenes Fifth Street Public Market.Paris-based Conductor Gets HandelThe Festival welcomes famed choral conductor John Nelson as a guest conductor for the July 7th performance of Handels LAllegro.Christmas OratorioHave Christmas your way this summer -- see a little bit 'o' Bach or a whole lotta Bach.Students, Families: Free Concerts & Special PricesStudent discounts and childrens concerts are a big part of the Festival's programming.Two Premieres Headline '05 FestivalBach's abuzz about a Latino Passion and a rediscovered operaMendelssohn Symposium Offers Music and Jewish PerspectiveTwo 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 BirthplaceGrown from a relationship started in Eugene, Osvaldo Golijov's fiery Latino Pasión opens the 2005 Festival.Rilling Brings Mendelssohns Lost Uncle to AmericaAn accomplished comic operacomposed by Mendelssohn at age 14is rediscovered and gets its American premiere this summer in Eugene.Conducting Master Class Now EnrollingApplications are now being accepted for the 2005 Oregon Bach Festival Master Class in Choral Conducting.Rilling Conducts Free Concert Oct 31Helmuth 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 joyBy 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 beatThe Oregonian's David Stabler previews La Pasion and the FestivalBach Festival choir avoids a sour noteBy 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 proudReview from The Register-GuardL'Allegro: Apt music for troubled timesReview from The Register-GuardBaroque ensemble turns down the volume -- and has funReview from The Register-GuardYoung Mendelssohn's opera well-sungReview from The Register-GuardSchola Cantorum shift gears without losing any of its intensity, authorityReview from The OregonianVenezuelan choir takes audience on wild rideReview from The Register-Guard'Christmas Oratorio' is one joy after anotherReview from The Register-GuardYa-Fei Chuang's charming intimacyReview from The Register-GuardCultures collide in rhythmic 'La Pasion': Listeners are swept into a hypnotic world of Latin joy, despairReview from The OregonianPerfection eludes `Pasión' premiereReview from The Register-Guard |
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