THE BACH FESTIVAL CHORUS

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this great community group.

How you can join . . .

rehearsal schedule, etc.

MEET OUR CHORAL CONDUCTOR:

WMMA is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul McGovern, will be preparing the Festival Chorus for the 2011 Bach Festival. Dr. McGovern has over 20 years teaching experience, both in K-12 schools and at the college level.

Throughout his career, he has conducted school and community choral ensembles of all types and ages. Currently he serves as chorus master for PORTopera and as conductor of the Southern Maine Children's Choir at USM. Previously, he has served as music director and conductor of the UMF Community Chorus and the Granite State Choral Society. Paul continues to sing with the Choral Art Society’s chamber choir, Camerata.

Currently he teaches music at Portland High School. He has taught music and directed choirs at Cape Elizabeth High School, Saint Joseph’s College, SUNY-Potsdam, and Georgia Southern University. Dr. McGovern received his Bachelor’s degree from Queens College/CUNY and his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Choral Conducting from Indiana University. Before graduate school, he taught music in the public schools in the greater Philadelphia, PA area for six years.

THE BACH FESTIVAL CHORUS
HOW TO JOIN:

The Bach Festival Chorus, made up of both amateur and professional singers from the greater Mt. Washington Valley will be prepared this year by Dr. Paul McGovern.

The music for the Festival Chorus has been chosen (see below), and an introductory meeting of interested singers was held- July 17th - 6:30 - 8:30, with rehearsals in August leading up to the Festival performances on August 27 and 28.

Participation in the Festival Chorus is open to area singers - both amateur and professional - who are committed to striving for quality musical presentation and who have an interest in performing the music of J. S. Bach and friends in a professional concert setting.

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE:

SUNDAY'S AND MONDAY'S:

August 7 & 8

August 14 & 15

August 21 & 22

6:30 - 8:30 PM

Rehearsals held at at First Church of Christ, Congregational, (air conditioned)
2521 White Mountain Highway (Route 16/302), North Conway, NH
(across from Peach's Restaurant!)

WMMA encourages all interested singers who meet the above-mentioned criteria to plan to attend ~ and invite your friends who are interested singers as well.

Festival Chorus Performances:

Saturday, August 27 and
Sunday, August 28

WMMA/Bach Chorus, P O Box 2753, North Conway, NH 03860

Prints of the Cantata music are available at the local UPS Store for the cost of printing: $3.84

We are pleased to announce that with the assistance of major grant funding,
special additions to the chorus risers will permit the singers
to stand in a horseshoe formation, providing increased performance acoustics.

In addition the grant funding has provided the purchase of
acoustic sound panels which will be placed behind the singers to better send
the choral sound out to the audience.

WMMA is most grateful to the Goldberg Charitable Foundation,
the Gibson / Woodbury Foundation
and the Clarence E. Mulford Foundation
for generous funding in support of acquiring these
important additions to the music presentations.

2011 Bach Festival
Music to be performed by
BACH FESTIVAL CHORUS

* Cantata BWV 61 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland I ~ J. S. Bach
Chorus needs only pages: 1-9; 19-21

Festival Chorus & Orchestra

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* Cantata BWV 62, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland II ~ J. S. Bach
Chorus needs only pages: 1-11; and p. 27

Ashley Emerson, soprano, Emily Marvosh, mezzo soprano
(TBA) tenor John D. Adams, bass-baritone

Festival Chorus & Orchestra
(please note: these two cantatas have the same text, but are two different musical settings.)

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* Cantata BWV 30a, Freue dich, erlöste Schar ~ J. S. Bach
Chorus needs only pages 1-8; 26-27; 41-48 -
These pages are a note-for-note reprise of the first movement.

Ashley Emerson, soprano Emily Marvosh, mezzo soprano
John D. Adams, bass-baritone

WMMA Festival Chorus & Orchestra

The 23rd Annual Bach Festival

August 21 and August 26 - 28, 2011

The four-day festival of music of Johann Sebastian Bach and friends
will echo through the valley again in the summer,
in the greater Mt. Washington Valley, NH and Fryeburg, Maine.

Festival Chorus Performances:

Saturday, August 27 and
Sunday, August 28

What is WMMA?

White Mountain Musical Arts ~

is the name of the group, begun in 2001 as a 501 ( c ) (3) organization to formally carry on the vision and dream of Dr. Clarence Sndyer, Organist Emeritus at Christ Church Episcopal, located in North Conway, when in 1989 he founded the Mt. Washington Valley’s first set of concerts dedicated to the music of J. S. Bach in an effort to fulfill “a vision of a major cultural event in New Hampshire’s North Country: an annual Bach Festival.”

The expanded mission of the WMMA is to:
“Exclusively bring public musical performances, primarily live performances of art music to the greater Mt. Washington Valley; and to provide opportunities for education in music through lectures & lecture-recitals / concerts.”

WMMA currently presents both the annual Bach Festival during the 3rd and 4th weekends of August, and a Chamber Music Concert Series with a varied schedule throughout the year.

 

White Mountain Musical Arts
P O Box 2753
North Conway, NH 03860

Thank you!

White Mountain Musical Arts
2011 Board of Directors
Officers:
President, Jim Umberger
Vice-President, Mary Lamb
Secretary, Chris Delano
Treasurer, Brian Kelsch, Leone, McDonnell & Roberts, PA
Music Advisory Board:
Floyd Corson, Chair
Rob Lehmann, Festival Conductor/Music Director
Debby Dabczynski, Portland Symphony Orchestra
Directors:
John Cotter ~ Theresa Gallagher
Dan Jones ~ Muriel Magg
Administrative Coordinator:
Cindy Russell, Monarch Events