announcing ~
The 22nd Annual Bach Festival
scheduled for
August 22 and August 27 - 29, 2010.
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach and friends
will echo through the valley again in the summer,
in the Mt. Washington Valley, NH for four days.

As the Annual Bach Festival, presented by White Mountain Musical Arts, North Conway, continues to expand, we are pleased to announce that in addition to the opening organ recital scheduled on Sunday, August, 22nd in North Conway at Christ Church Episcopal, the three performances for Friday & Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoon on August 27, 28, 29, 2010 will be held at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy, Fryeburg, Maine.

"We are happy to be making this move to the spacious performing arts center at Fryeburg Academy, a newly completed state of the art cultural center established right here in the greater Mt. Washington Valley," said Floyd Corson, President of the Board of Directors. "The invitation to present our professional performances in this warm and beautiful setting affords WMMA the ability to accommodate a larger audience in a theater which truly has no ‘bad seats’! The acoustics and beautifully enhanced surroundings will make performing the music of J. S. Bach and Friends a rewarding experience for both performers and audience."

Lobby and Theater of Performing Arts Center

Check back in early 2010
for 22nd Annual Festival Details

For information about the 21st Annual Festival
held this past August, 2009
follow the links below.

The Festival opens with a unique opportunity to experience the music of J. S. Bach at
Christ Church, Episcopal,
Main Street, North Conway
on the Casavant free-standing, two manual tracker organ.

FEATURING RAY CORNILS,
Ray Cornils is the Municipal Organist (www.foko.org) for the City of Portland, a post which he has held since 1990. He presides over America’s first municipal organ, (101 ranks and 5 manuals) built in 1912 and enlarged in 1927 and 2003 by the Austin Organ Company. It donated to the City of Portland by publishing magnate Cyrus H.K. Curtis in memory of his child-hood music teacher Hermann Kotzschmar.

Prelude and Fugue in G Major BWV 541 J. S. Bach
1685-1750

Air on the G String arr. Frederick Hohman
from Orchestral Suite III, BWV 1068

Three Chorales from Clavierübung, Part III J. S. Bach
Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV 669
Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV 670
Kyrie, Gott, heiliger Geist, BWV 671

Concerto No. 1 in G Majo, BWV 592 J. S. Bach
(Allegro)
Adagio
Presto

Three Fugues J. S. Bach
Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot, BWV 679
Little Fugue in g minor, BWV 578
Gigue Fugue in G Major, BWV 577

Trio in the Style of Bach on Alles Was Du Bist Billy Nalle
1921-2005

Swingin’ Bach Porter Heaps
1906-1999

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Three major concert performances are scheduled for the Bach Festival on Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 PM, and Sunday 4 PM, all at the first-rate venue for the Bach Festival, the air-conditioned 10th Mt. Pavilion at Cranmore, North Conway.

Each of the concerts will feature a concert preview one-half hour before the concert begins. Both works for soloists and small ensembles as well as larger works for full chamber orchestra and chorus are scheduled for performance at this year's Festival.

The full Bach Festival Chorus, soloists and orchestra will bring the 2009 Bach Festival to a close on Sunday afternoon.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Sunday Morning Bach Service
First Church of Christ, Congregational
North Conway
Pre-Service Prelude Music ~ 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service ~ 10 a.m.

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Sunday Afternoon Concert
10th Mountain Pavilion Building (air conditioned)
Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway

Concert Preview - 3:30 p.m.

Concert - 4 p.m.
Orchestral and Choral Works

G. F. Handel: Concerto Grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12

J. S. Bach: Gavotte en Rondeau
Nash Ryder, violin Featured Young Artist

A. Vivaldi: Concerto for Four violins in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 10
Robert Lehmann, Charles Dimmick, Fred Bednarz, Nash Ryder, violins

J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in D Major BWV 1047
Fred Bednarz, violin; Rachel Braude, flute
Margaret Herlehy, oboe; Barbara Prugh, trumpet

I N T E R M I S S I O N

J. S. Bach: Cantata BWV 147
Patrice Tiedemann, soprano; Emily Marvosh, mezzo soprano
Ethan Bremner, tenor; John Adams, bass-baritone
Festival Chorus & Orchestra

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Seating and Ticket Offerings
Three types of seating will be available at the 7:30 PM performances
at both the air-conditioned 10th Mt. Pavilion on
Friday, Saturday and 4 PM on Sunday
as well as at the Organ Recital on Thursday evening at 7:30 PM.

In addition, single tickets for each concert are available,
as well as a 4-Concert Pass - which offers the opportunity
to attend all 4 concerts for the price of 3.

The total cost of single tickets and 4-Concert Passes
vary according to the
area of seating chosen.
Tickets are available for order on the web,
or for purchase at ticket locations in North Conway, NH

Type of Seating:

Conductor's Circle - limited seating in the front
Mid-Section
General Seating

10th Mt. Pavilion
(air-conditioned)

Cranmore, North Conway
Host sponsor

Conveniently located at the end of Skimobile Road,
off Kearsarge Road, easily accessable from the
North South Road, or Intervale Crossroads.
Ample, convenient parking within steps of the Pavilion building.

To order tickets on the web ~ click here

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