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Short term course on the sacred repertoire of J.S. Bach offered at Regent College, May 22-26, 2023
As part of its upcoming Summer Program, Regent College is offering a one-week course under the title, “The Fifth Evangelist: The Sacred Repertoire of J.S. Bach.” The course will be taught onsite at Regent College (5800 University Blvd., corner of University Blvd and Wesbrook Mall on the UBC campus), Monday to Friday, May 22-26, 8:30 to 11:30 am. It will also be accessible online.
Participating lecturers are J. Evan Kreider (Professor Emeritus, Musicology, UBC), Dietrich Bartel (Emeritus Professor of Music, Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg), Edward Norman (professional organist and recitalist), as well as Regent College Professor, Sven Soderlund (coordinator). Edward Norman’s organ recital/lecture will be held at Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church (2733 W. 41st Ave.) on Wednesday morning, May 24.
The course is offered both for Master level credit (1 or 2 credit hour) or audit status. Credit tuition rate is $520 per credit hour, onsite ($540/cr hr online) plus $35 registration fee. Audit tuition is $385 onsite and $405 online, plus $35 registration fee.
More information on course content, including a course syllabus, can be obtained from the Regent College website, regent-college.edu
Accompanied live on the Wurlitzer organ by Edward Norman.
Info: https://vancouvercivictheatres.com/events/vct-silent-movie-mondays-the-general-jun-5-2023/
RCCO Vancouver Centre executive member Isaac Howie has always loved making music. A student of piano and composition since early childhood, his musical career has included founding a jazz trio; composing and performing for concert bands; publishing electronic music; and winning awards for solo piano. He entered the University of British Columbia at 15, where he currently studies organ under the mentorship of Professor Michael Dirk. Alongside his pursuit of a BMus, Isaac is Organist at Holy Family Parish in Vancouver; he holds an ARCT in piano and studies harpsichord with Alex Weimann. In 2021, Isaac was division winner of the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s Young Composers’ Competition. In his spare time, Isaac enjoys building computers and translating Ancient Greek texts.
Founded in 1915, La Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Québec is the oldest choir school of its kind in North America. Each year, some 250 students, aged 6 to 17, follow a comprehensive music curriculum in addition to their regular studies. They perform regularly in professional concerts and every two years a smaller group of young choristers goes on tour, performing in prestigious venues such as Westminster Cathedral, the Sagrada Familia and St. Peter’s Basilica. This year’s tour is to Canada’s West Coast, notably Vancouver and Victoria, and as in other years, organist Marc D’Anjou is their accompanist. They will sing a variety of sacred and secular music, and Marc D’Anjou will also perform works for solo organ.
Founded in 1915, La Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Québec is the oldest choir school of its kind in North America. Each year, some 250 students, aged 6 to 17, follow a comprehensive music curriculum in addition to their regular studies. They perform regularly in professional concerts and every two years a smaller group of young choristers goes on tour, performing in prestigious venues such as Westminster Cathedral, the Sagrada Familia and St. Peter’s Basilica. This year’s tour is to Canada’s West Coast, notably Vancouver and Victoria, and as in other years, organist Marc D’Anjou is their accompanist. They will sing a variety of sacred and secular music, and Marc D’Anjou will also perform works for solo organ.
Accompanied live on the Wurlitzer organ by RCCO Vancouver Centre vice-president and education officer Michael Dirk.
The “well” temperaments of Bach’s day were tuning systems carefully designed to let keyboardists play in every key without re-tuning their instruments. Inspired by Bach’s famous Well-Tempered Clavier and Anna Magdalena Bach, Alexander Weimann has assembled a new collection of pieces spanning the whole harmonic spectrum for this special concert as part of Early Music Vancouver’s WOMENinSIGHT festival.
Alexander Weimann was born in Munich, where he studied the organ, church music, musicology (with a summa con laude thesis on Bach’s secco recitatives), theatre, mediæval Latin, and jazz piano. He serves as Music Director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver, Music Director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and regular guest conductor of ensembles including Arion Baroque Orchestra in Montreal and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Watch the link to learn more at https://youtu.be/2QS8Mr5AIAI. The full programme and tickets are available at https://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/events/the-well-tempered-organ/. When purchasing tickets, use the code ORGAN20 to get 20% off.
PROGRAMME
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Pièce d’Orgue in G major, BWV 572
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121
Aria in F major (“after Couperin”), BWV 587
Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649
O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross, BWV 622
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
Toccata and Fugue in E major BWV 566
Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’, BWV 662
Fugue in B minor (“on a Theme of Corelli”), BWV 579
Vater unser in Himmelreich, BWV 682
Praeludium in A minor, BWV 569
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Fugue in G major, BWV 577
The brilliant virtuoso violinist Chloe Kim is joined by Christina Mahler, former principal cellist of Tafelmusik, and Christina Hutten, well-known as organist and harpsichordist with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Early Music Vancouver.
The programme for the concert has been curated to highlight the wonderful work that the St James Music Academy does by providing free music education for children on the downtown Eastside, and how that parallels the work that composers would have done and benefitted from themselves in the 17th and 18th centuries :
Alessandro Stradella : Trio Sonata in D Minor
Arcangelo Corelli : Violin Sonata in F Major, Op 5 No 10
Phillip Friedrich Böddecker : Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor
Antonio Vivaldi : Violin Sonata in D Major, RV 10
Marin Marais : Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre : Violin Sonata No 1 in D Minor
Johann Jakob Froberger : Suite in C major, FbWV 612
Dieterich Buxtehude : Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160
Johann Sebastian Bach : Continuo Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021
More info: https://www.sjmusic.ca/events/triptych/2023-08-12
The brilliant virtuoso violinist Chloe Kim is joined by Christina Mahler, former principal cellist of Tafelmusik, and Christina Hutten, well-known as organist and harpsichordist with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Early Music Vancouver.
The programme for the concert has been curated to highlight the wonderful work that the St James Music Academy does by providing free music education for children on the downtown Eastside, and how that parallels the work that composers would have done and benefitted from themselves in the 17th and 18th centuries :
Alessandro Stradella : Trio Sonata in D Minor
Arcangelo Corelli : Violin Sonata in F Major, Op 5 No 10
Phillip Friedrich Böddecker : Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Minor
Antonio Vivaldi : Violin Sonata in D Major, RV 10
Marin Marais : Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre : Violin Sonata No 1 in D Minor
Johann Jakob Froberger : Suite in C major, FbWV 612
Dieterich Buxtehude : Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160
Johann Sebastian Bach : Continuo Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021
More info: https://www.sjmusic.ca/events/triptych/2023-08-12
If you happen to be in the Knight Street and 18th Avenue East area, St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church / Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Markusgemeinde is once again organizing a live organ recital.
Angelique Po will give a recital featuring works written by Bach, Bruhns, Couperin, Guilain, Vaughan Williams, and more.
