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Posted by: thepinetree on 09/19/2016 02:50 PM Updated by: thepinetree on 09/19/2016 02:51 PM
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Sonora Bach Festival Opens 40th Season With Baroque Singalong

Sonora, CA...The Sonora Bach Festival, will be holding a Baroque Singalong on Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 2:00. The event, featuring choral music from the time of Bach, Vivaldi and Handel, will be held the Church of the 49ers, 11155 Jackson Street, Columbia CA. Admission for singers or listeners is $5.00. Tickets are available online at sonorabach.org or by calling (209) 536-6330 or at the door. For more information visit the webpage at sonorabach.org or contact info@sonorabach.org.





Any singer of choral music is probably familiar with the annual performance event of a Christmas Messiah Singalong where the audience joins together in a read-through of Handel’s masterpiece. The Sonora Bach Festival, celebrating its 40th year, will be presenting a Singalong of own Singalong, broadening the scope of the event to include not only music from Handel’s Messiah but also the choral music of his contemporaries, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and others. The music is not rehearsed. And while the music is also not “conducted”, the music is “led” by area music leaders who keep the group together. This year’s leaders will include, Daryl Hollinger, John Carter and Barbara Broad. Accompanists for the event will be Dorothy Woodford-Arndt, Diane Day and Gail Johnson.

Last year’s Sing Along, featuring just the music of Bach, was a first for the festival. According to program initiator and Groveland resident, Barbara Broad, “The event was so successful we decided to offer it again. This year, however, we are broadening the repertoire to include music of other Baroque composers. Bach’s music is so profound and sophisticated that it can be very difficult to perform so we are aiming for music that people know or that, for the most part, can be read easily”.

This years’ music will include choruses by Handel, Vivaldi, Buxtehude and Kuhnau. From Handel’s Messiah will be “And the Glory of the Lord”, “Lift Up Your Heads”, and “Hallelujah”. But included, to give a broader perspective of Handel’s creative output, is a chorus from his Ode to St. Cecilia’s Day, and a duet from his Chandos Anthem NO. 4. Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria will be represented by its first two choruses and its last. Dietrich Buxtehude’s chorale cantata of the Christmas carol, In Dulci Jubilo, for three voices, and two movements from Kuhnau’s Cantata To Us a Child Is Born will also be featured.

Among compositions by Bach will be excerpts from Cantata NO. 4, Magnificat, B Minor Mass, his harmonization’s of hymn tunes and even some arrangements by Ward Swingle of The Swingle Singers fame..

The Singalong will be held in Columbia, CA at the Church of the 49ers.

“The acoustics, piano, parking and lighting are good at the church” says Baroque Singalong committee member, John Carter. “Add to that great music from Bach’s time and we have the makings for a wonderful afternoon”.


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