Denton Bach Choir Presents An All Bach Concert
The Denton Bach Choir, in conjunction with the Denton Bach Players, will perform an all Bach concert on Sunday March 7.- Sunday, March 7, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Denton, Texas
- Adults $15, Students and Seniors $12
- Tickets can be purchased at the door
The Denton Bach Choir, the Denton Bach Players, and soloists will be performing two J.S. Bach contatas: BWV 131 and BWV 182. The Denton Bach Players will be performing Suite No. 2 for flute and strings in B-minor.
2009-2010 Season
The Denton Bach Society will offer an expanded season in 2009-2010 that features five concerts.
1st concert: November 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church - Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum, Haydn's Heiligmesse
2nd concert: Christmas concert at First Presbyterian Church, December 13th, 2009, 7:30 PM – Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and British & American music for Christmas
3rd concert: Tuesday, February 23, First Presbyterian Church. An instrumental program featuring the newly formed Denton Bach Players.
4th concert: March 7, 2010 at 7:30, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church An all-Bach program
5th concert: May 9, Mother’s Day, 2010, 3:00 PM. Selwyn School.
Cantata 131 is one of the earliest surviving of Bach's cantatas. It was apparently written for a penitential service in Mühlhausen after a fire had destroyed a major part of the town in 1707. Bach was in his twenties and still heavily under the influence of Buxtehude and the musical styles of the late seventeenth century. The cantata is based on Psalm 130, and the text opens with the plaintive cry, "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich zu dir" (Out of the depths I cry unto Thee).
Cantata 182, "Himmelskönig, sei willkommen," ("King of Heaven, be Thou welcome") is a cantata for Palm Sunday. The text is based on Psalm 40. The cantata was written for the Duke of Weimar shortly after Bach's appointment as Konzertmeister there, and premiered on March 25, 1714, marking the beginning of a monthly Weimar cantata cycle (Christoph Wolff). The Weimar Period from 1714 to 1717 thus became the first major period of contata writing for Bach. Of course, the most concentrated period of contata writing for Bach came later, during his time in Leipzig (1723-1750).
While in Leipzig, Bach served as director of the Collegium Musicum, a public concert series held in Zimmermann's Coffee House. In that role, Bach wrote a number of instrumental works in the latest concert style, as well as secular cantatas, often of a more humorous and overtly entertaining nature. The Suite No. 2 for flute and strings in B-minor is one of these works, a series of pieces in popular stylized dance forms of the period. The Suite will be performed by the Denton Bach Players.
Our program will feature Janelle West, flute, as soloist in the
orchestral suite, and UNT vocalists Laura Chester, soprano, Jennifer
Lane, mezzo soprano, Derek Chester, tenor and David Grogan, bass, as
soloists in the cantatas. Cantata 131 will be conducted by
our associate conductor, Cameron LaBarr, as part of his work toward the
DMA degree at the UNT College of Music; Andrew Justice leads the Denton
Bach Players ensemble, and Henry Gibbons, Music Director of the Denton
Bach Society, will conduct Cantata 182 as the final work on the program.
