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VOICES OF LIGHT: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC ten THING BRASS ENSEMBLE

PRESENTED BY THE BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF WINTER PARK

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park’s mission is to inspire the human spirit through extraordinary music, featuring powerful choral performances and innovative programming that celebrates the legacy of J.S. Bach. The 89th Season will showcase a dynamic array of world-class musicians and vocalists performing classical masterworks and contemporary compositions that will delight, challenge, and inspire listeners.

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OFFICERS

Dr. Jack Schott, President

Dr. Bill Oelfke, Vice President

Michael Kakos, Treasurer

Beverly J. Slaughter, Secretary

TRUSTEES

Pilar Carvajal

Dr. Grant H. Cornwell

Dr. Jeff Flowers

Dr. Grant Hayes

The Honorable Cynthia Mackinnon

Richard Russell

Alex Tiedtke

TRUSTEES EMERITI

The late M. Elizabeth Brothers

J. Michael Murphy

The late Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Major Support

STAFF

John V. Sinclair, Artistic Director and Conductor

Kathy Johnson Berlinsky, Executive Director

Rhonda Burnham, Artistic Manager

Jane Secrist Newnum, Marketing and Development Consultant

Ruby Abreu, Marketing Manager

Sondra Jones, Education Manager

Logan Landry-Jennings, Operations Manager

Lex Goity, Finance and Strategy Manager

Luke Noles, Administrative Coordinator

Sherry Orr, Assistant to John Sinclair

Regunia Griggs, Choir Liaison

Vivian Cook, Young at Heart Chorale Director

Rebecca Hammac, Youth Choir Director

Lynn Peghiny, Accompanist

Sofía Cardi Bonfil, Youth Choir Accompanist

Provided By

Our 89th Season is supported by many generous individual donors as well as Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs program; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; United Arts of Central Florida, your local agency for the arts; Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation; Dr. Phillips Charities; Jessie Ball duPont Fund; Pabst Steinmetz Foundation; Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation; AdventHealth, Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation; The Joe & Sarah Galloway Foundation; Massey Services Inc.; and Rollins College.

John V. Sinclair has established a national reputation as one of the leading conductors of choral masterworks while locally being known as one of the hardest-working and in-demand artists of the Central Florida cultural community. In his 34th season as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Bach Festival Society, he has broadened the society’s musical offerings of masterworks by both classical and contemporary composers into the repertoire of the Society while perpetuating his reputation as a scholarly interpreter of J.S. Bach’s music. He continues his imaginative programming, creative interpretations, and expressive conducting.

Dr. Sinclair, known as a master teacher, is Director of Music at Rollins College and holds the John M. Tiedtke Endowed Chair. As a career educator, Sinclair keeps the Society’s educational focus vital by providing a broad range of musical programs and experiences for individuals of all ages. As a conductor who is equally adept at directing choral and orchestral music, he has been referred to as Central Florida’s “resident conductor.” Sinclair has appeared as conductor for more than a thousand EPCOT Candlelight performances in addition to his work as a clinician and lecturer. The Bach Festival, under his leadership, has achieved international recognition by touring in Europe, producing nationally released CDs and broadcasts, and performing with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra during their Florida residencies.

Dr. Sinclair holds masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music. His undergraduate school, William Jewell College, honored him with its most prestigious Citation for Achievement. In addition to editing and interpreting historical choral works through the Moravian Music Foundation, he has authored an anecdotal book entitled Falling Off the Podium and Other Life Lessons. The late Terry Teachout, formerly the Wall Street Journal’s arts critic, once wrote, “John is a gifted conductor, a great educator, and the best of all possible colleagues.” For more than three decades, John Sinclair has shared his talent and dedication to musical excellence with the Central Florida community and beyond.

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JOHN V. SINCLAIR

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR

Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Presents

VOICES OF LIGHT: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

Bach Chamber Choir and Orchestra

John V. Sinclair, conductor

Anna Eschbach, soprano | Morgan Peckels, mezzo-soprano | John Grau, tenor | Stephen Mumbert, bass

March 15, 2024 • 7:30 pm | March 16, 2024 • 7:30 pm Knowles Memorial Chapel

Voices of Light (82’)

I. Prelude

PROGRAM

Richard Einhorn (b. 1952)

II. Victory at Orléans (Letter from Joan of Arc)

III. Interrogation

IV. The Jailers

V. Pater Noster

VI. The Jailers Return

VII. Torture

VIII. Illness (Letter from Joan of Arc)

IX. Sacrament

X. Abjuration

XI. Relapse

XII. Anima

XIII. The Final Walk

XIV. The Burning

XV. The Fire of the Dove

XVI. Epilogue (Letter from Joan of Arc)

Please turn off cell phone and electronic devices prior to the start of this performance. The Bach Festival Society’s policies strictly prohibit photography, filming, or recording of any kind during performances without the express written permission of the Society.

Prelude

Joan:

[Exclamatvit autem voce magna…] «Deus aeterne, qui absconditorum es cognitor, qui nosti Omnia antequam fiant, tu scis quoniam falsu, testimonium tulerunt contra me; et ecce morior, cum nihil horum fecerim quae isti malitoise composuerunt adversum me.»

Chorus:

Thronus…flame ignis, Rotae eius ignis accensus. Fluvius igneus rapidusque egrediebatur a facie eius; Millia millium ministrabant… Et decies millies centena millia assistebant…

Iudicium sedit, et libri aperti sunt.

Victory at Orléans

(Letter from Joan of Arc)

Joan:

Jehanne…la Pucelle vous fair savior des nouvelles de par decha que en VIII jours elle a cachie les Angloix hors de toutez les places quilz tenioent sur le revire de Loire par assaut et autrement ou il en eu mains mors et prins et lez a desconfis en bataille[…] le frere du conte de Suffort et Glasias mors.

Je vous promectz et certifie[…] en toultes les villes quy doibvent ester du sainct royaume[…] quy quy vyenne contre.

Car Diue, le Roy du ciel, le vault, et cela est révélé par la Pucelle…

Prelude

Joan:

[She cried out in a loud voice]

“Everlasting God, who knows things hidden and all things before they happen, you know they have borne false witness against me; and see! I die, although I am innocent of everything their malice has invented against me.”

Daniel 13:42

Chorus:

[His] throne…was ablaze with flames, His wheels were a burning fire.

A swift river of fire

Came forth from his countenance

A thousand thousand waiting upon him

Ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood by.

The court sat,

And the books were opened.

Daniel 7:9

Victory at Orléans

(Letter from Joan of Arc)

Joan:

Jehanne…the Maid sends you news from these parts: that in one week she has chased the English out of all the places that they held along the Loire river, either by assault or otherwise, in which encounters many English were killed and captured and she has routed them in a pitched battle. A brother of the Earl of Suffolk’s and Glasdale were killed.

I promise and assure you [that we will take possession] of all the cities that must belong to [our] holy realm…in spite of all opposition!

So God, King of Heaven, wills it, and so it has been revealed by the Maid…

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Interrogation

Chorus:

HOMASSE!

Hee! Quel honneur au feminine Sexe!...

Par qui tout le regne ert desert,

Par femme est sours et recouvert.

TEXT AND TRANSLATION

Interrogation

Chorus:

Masculine Woman!

(Medieval slur directed at women)

Oh! What an honor for the feminine sex!... This entire realm, once lost by [wretched men],

Restored and saved by a woman again

Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc

by Christine de Pizan 1429, one of the earliest known feminist writers.

Virtutem…mysterium secretarum et admirandarum visionum a puellari aetate…essem usque ad praesens tempus mirabili modo in me senseram…

From my girlhood to the present time, in a wondrous fashion I have felt in myself the power and mystery of secret and wonderful visions…

HOMASSE!

Une fillete…

A que armes ne sont pesans…

Et devant elle vont fuyant

Les ennemis, ne nul n’y dure.

"Velis aut nolis haec erit tuum. Ego scio quid elegi"

St. Hildegard of Bingen, mystic, poet, and composer from the early 12th Century. Masculine Woman!

A little girl […]

Upon whom arms and armor weigh lightly; […]

Before her all foes take off at a run, Of them none remains, not even a one. Ditié

Christine de Pizan

"Whether or not you wish it, this will be yours. I know what I have chosen."

Na Prous Boneta, 14th Century French heretic who was burned at the stake

Ex nemore canuto puella eliminabitur ut medelae curam adhibeat.

Out of an oak forest a girl will be sent forth to bring healing. Ancient prophecy of Merlin thought to refer to Joan of Arc’s mission.

TEXT AND TRANSLATION

Non induetur mulier vest virile, nec vir utetur veste feminea: abominabilis enim apud Deum est qui facit haec

The Jailers

Tant y a feme scet bon taire

Tant y a feme scet bon taire

Feme a un cuer par heritage

Qui ne puet ester en un estage.

Or est sauvage or es privee; Ore vault paiz, or vault meslee;

Femme engine en poi d’ure

Dount un[e] tere tout plouire.

Que qui aime et croit fole fame

Gaste son temps, pert corps et ame.

Ore vous aid it de lur vies, Fuoums de lur cumpaignies. Ore vous aid it de lur vies, Fuoums de lur cumpaignies.

Tant y a feme scet bon taire

Ore vous aid it de lur vies, Fuoums de lur cumpaignies.

Pater Noster

Pater noster, qui es in caelis, Sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum.

Fiat voluntas tua, Sicut in caelo et in terra.

A woman shall not wear the clothes of a man

Nor a man

the clothes of a woman. For abominable in the eyes of God are those who do so.

Deuteronomy 22:5

The Jailers

When it comes to women, men, hold your tongue!

When it comes to women, men, hold your tongue!

A woman’s heart is just not able To chart a course that’s firm or stable

Now she’s wild, now she’s demure; Now wants peace, then starts a war;

The schemes she quickly engineers

Can drown a countryside in tears

Who loves and trusts mad womankind

Damns soul and body, wastes his time.

Now that I’ve told you of womankind, Let’s flee and leave them far behind! Now that I’ve told you of womankind, Let’s flee and leave them far behind!

When it comes to women, men, hold your tongue!

Now that I’ve told you of womankind, Let’s flee and leave them far behind!

The Vices of Women

late 13th Century misogynist poem

Pater Noster

Our Father, who art in Heaven Hallowed be Thy Name Thy Kingdom Come

Thy will be done

In Earth as it is In Heaven.

Matthew 6:9-10

"Filia mea dulcis michi; filia mea, delectum meum, templum meum; filia delectum meum, ama me: quia tu es multum amata a me, multum plus quam tu ames me."

"Et postquam ego colcavi me in te; modo colca te tu in me."

"Ista est mea creatura."

Pater Noster, qui es in caelis Sanctificetur nomen tuum

Adveniat regnum tuum

Fiat voluntas tua, Sicut in caelo

Et in terra.

Et sentiebam dulcedinem divinam ineffabilem.

"Et postquam ego colcavi me in te; modo colca te tu in me."

"Ista est mea creatura."

"Filia mea dulcis michi; filia mea, delectum meum, templum meum; filia delectum meum, ama me: quia tu es multum amata a me, multum plus quam tu ames me."

"Et postquam ego colcavi me in te; modo colca te tu in me."

"Ista est mea creatura."

The Jailers Return

Tant y a feme scet bon taire

Tant y a feme scet bon taire

Femme est dehors religiouse, Dedanz poignaunt e venimose;

"My daughter, sweet to me; my daughter, my beloved, my temple; my daughter, my beloved, love me since you have been much loved by me, much more than you love me."

"and after I have laid myself in you, now lay yourself in me."

"This is my creature."

Blessed Angela of Foligno 13th Century mystic and penitent Our Father, who art in Heaven Hallowed be Thy Name Thy Kingdom Come Thy will be done In Earth as it is in Heaven

Matthew 6:9-10

And I felt an ineffable divine sweetness.

"And after I have laid myself in you, now lay yourself in me."

"This is my creature."

"My daughter, sweet to me; my daughter, my beloved, my temple; my daughter, my beloved, love me since you have been much loved by me, much more than you love me."

"And after I have laid myself in you, now lay yourself in me."

"This is my creature."

The Jailers Return

When it comes to women, men, hold your tongue!

When it comes to women, men, hold your tongue!

On the outside she’s religious, On the inside keen and venomous;

TEXT AND TRANSLATION

A soy sera d’aucun complainte, Ir se fait moult juste et moult sainte.

Femme engender bataille e guere, Exile gent de gaste tere;

Femme and chasteus e prent citez Enfudre tours e fermetez.

Ore vous aid it de lur vies, Fuoums de lur cumpaignies.

Ore vous aid it de lur vies, Fuoums de lur cumpaignies.

Torture

Glorioses playes…

Et desiderabam videre vel saltem illud parum de carne Christi quod portaverant clavi in ligno.

Glorioses playes…

…ostendit cor suum perforatum quasi ad modum portulae unius parvae laternae… quod ex ipso corde exiverunt radii solares. Imo solaribus radiis clariores…

Glorioses playes…

…"non est aequum, velle solum de melle meo gustare, et non de felle: si perfecte vis mecum uniri, mente intents recogita illusions, opprobria, flagella, mortem, et tormenta, quae pro te sustinui."

She will not tolerate complaint, She’s lady justice and a saint.

Woman fosters strife and wars, And exiles men from ruined shores; Castles she burns, cities defeats

Destroys the towers and the keeps.

Now that I’ve told you of womankind, Let’s flee and leave them far behind!

Now that I’ve told you of womankind, Let’s flee and leave them far behind!

The Vices of Women

Late 13th Century misogynist poem

Torture

Glorious wounds…

Marguerite d’Oingt, early 14th Century visionary and poet.

And I longed to see at least that little bit of Christ’s flesh that the nailes had fixed to the wood.

Blessed Angela of Foligno

Glorious wounds…

Marguerite d’Oingt

He showed [her] his heart, perforated like the openings in a small lantern…From his very heart issues forth rays of the sun –no--- brighter than the sun’s rays…

Na Prous Bonteta

Glorious wounds…

Marguerite d’Oingt

… "It is not fair to wish to taste only of my honey, and not the gall. If you wish to be perfectly united with me, contemplate deeply the mockery, insults, whippings, death and torments that I endured for you."

Blessed Margarita, disciple of St. Umiltá, 14th Century

Glorioses playes…

Glorious wounds…

Marguerite d’Oingt

Illness

(Letter from Joan of Arc)

Joan:

Jehanne la Pucelle vous requiert de par le Roy du ciel, […] vous puis que ne guerroiez plus ou saint Royaume de France, […] et sera grant pitié de la grant bataille et du sang qui y sera respendu de ceux qui v dendront contr nous.

Sacrement

Chorus:

O feminea forma, O soror Sapientie, quam gloriosa es quoniam fortissimo vita in te surrexit, quam mors nunquam suffocabit.

Oh maledetti! Oh grande indignazione!

Illness

(Letter from Joan of Arc)

Joan:

Jehanne the Maid begs you on behalf of the King of Heaven, make war no longer in the holy Kingdom of France, …and a pitiful thing will be that great battle and the blood that will be shed therin by those who come there against us.

Sacrement

Chorus:

O feminine form, O sister of Wisdom

How glorious you are for in you has arisen the mightiest life that death will never stifle.

St. Hildegard of Bingen

Oh cursed ones! O great indignation!

St. Umiltá of Faenza, great 14th Century Italian mystic.

Fuge, fuge speluncam Antique perditoris

Et veniens veni in palatium regis.

…car plus est adjoustee foy au mal de tant comme le bien y est plus auttentique…

Abjuration

Exaudi, Deus omnipotens, preces populi… Puelle agentis secundum opera que sibi dixeras

Flee, flee the cave

Of the ancient destroyer

And come, coming into the palace of the king.

St. Hildegard of Bingen

…evil is rendered more believable by putting it together with good to make it more respectable…

From The Quarrel of the Rose Christine de Pizan Abjuration

Hear, Almighty God, the prayers of your people…of the girl acting according to the works which you had spoken of to her.

Prayer commissioned by King Charles VII pleading for Joan’s freedom from imprisonment, 1431

Si quis in me non manserit, mittertur foras sicut palmes, et arescet, et colligent eum, et in ignem mitten, et ardet.

Joan:

"Domine, istud quod facio, non facio nisi ut inveniam te."

Chorus:

"Depone animos."

…Une femme - - simple bergiere - -

Plus preux qu’onc homs ne fut á Romme!

Those who do not remain in me will be discarded like branches: they will wither.

So they will be gathered up, thrown on the fire, and burnt.

John 15:6, recited to Joan of Arc by Father Erard during her trial, at the confrontation in front of St. Ouen.

Joan:

"Lord, that which I do, I do only to find you."

Blessed Angela of Foligno

Chorus:

"Renounce your purpose."

From The Passion of St. Perpetua, a history of an early Christian martyr.

…a woman - - a simple shepherdess -More valiant even than Rome’s worthiest!

Ditié

Christine de Pizan

Ne universos nos extermines.

Benedicite, ignis et aestus, Domino;

"Depone animos."

…N’y a si forte Resistance qui á l’assault De la Pucelle ne soit morte.

Hester, Judith, et Delbora, Qui furent dames de grant pris, […] Mains miracles en a pourpris.

Plus a fair par ceste Pucelle.

Destroy us not all together.

St. Perpetua

Fire and heat, praise the Lord!

Daniel 3:66

“Renounce your purpose”

St. Perpetua

…No force is there so strong –Try as they might to resist the attack Of the Maid – it dies in vain before long.

One hears of Ester, Judith and Deborah, Who were ladies of great courage and worth; […]

Through them God performed miracles on Earth, But he fulfilled even more through his Maid.

Ditié

Christine de Pizan

"Depone animos."

…eadem hora mittemini in fornacem ignis ardentis. Et quis est Deus qui eripiet vos de manu mea?

Benedicite, ignis et aestus, Domino;

Joan:

"Domine, istud quod facio, non facio nisi ut inveniam te. Inveniam te postquam id perfecero!"

Relapse

Karitas habundat in omnia de imis excellentissima super sidera atque amantissima in omnia quia summon regi osculum pacis dedit.

Anima

…anima eius amore fluens et languens.

"Renounce your purpose."

St. Perpetua

…The same hour you will be thrown into a furnace of burning fire. And who is the God who will snatch you from my hand?

Fire and heat, praise the Lord!

Daniel 3:15;66

Joan:

"Lord, that which I do, I do only to find you. May I find you after I have completed it!"

Blessed Angela of Foligno

Relapse

Love overflows into all things, From out of the depths to above the highest stars;

And so Love overflows into all best beloved, most loving things,

The Kiss of Peace.

St. Hildegard of Bingen

Anima

…The Spirit flowing and melting with love.

There are Seven Manners of Loving Beatrice of Nazareth, 13th Century

…est ceste Ame cheue d’amour en nient.

…mens eius insane suspense ex vehementi cupidine…

…per solum Amorem aeternum trahitur in aeternitatem Armoris …anima eius amore fluens et languens.

…est ceste Ame cheue d’amour en nient.

…This Soul has fallen from love into nothingness.

Marguerite Porete, 14th Century member of the Free Spirit movement who was burned at the stake.

…The Spirit madly possessed by violent desire…

…Only through everlasting Love is it drawn into the eternity of Love

…The Spirit flowing and melting with love.

Beatrice of Nazereth

…This Soul has fallen from love into nothingness.

Marguerite Porete

TEXT AND TRANSLATION

…anima eius amore fluens et languens

…per solum Amorem aeternum trahitur in aeternitatem Amoris

…anima eius amore fluens et languens

…per solum Amorem aeternum trahitur in aeternitatem Amoris

The Final Walk

Joan:

[Exclamavit autem voce magna…] «Deus aeterne, qui absconditorum es cognitor, qui nosti amnia antequam fiant, tu scis quoniam falsum testimonium tulerunt contra me; et ecce morior, cum nihil horum fecerim quae isti malitiose composuerunt adversum me.»

The Burning Choir:

Dominus condit sibi unum ignem dicendo sic: "vides hunc ignem; qualiter totam materiam et substantiam lignorum convertit in suam naturam, eodem modo natura divinitatis convertit in se animas quas sibi vult…"

Rex noster promptus est

suscipere sanguinem innocentum. Sed nubes super eundem saguinem plangunt.

Unde angeli concinunt et in laudibus sonant.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui sancto. Rex noster promptus est

Suscipere sanguinem innocentum. Sed nubes super enundem sanguinem plangent Jehanne, Jehanne!

…The Spirit flowing and melting with love.. Only through everlasting Love is it drawn into the eternity of Love…The Spirit flowing and melting with love…Only through everlasting Love is it drawn into the eternity of Love

Beatrice of Nazereth

The Final Walk

Joan:

[She cried out in a loud voice]

“Everlasting God, who knows things hidden and all things before they happen, you know they have borne false witness against me; and see! I die, although I am innocent of everything their malice has invented against me.”

Daniel 13:42

The Burning Choir:

The Lord made for her a fire, saying: "You see this fire; as it changes all the matter and substance of wood into its own nature, even so, Divine Nature changes into itself the souls it wants for itself…"

Na Prous Boneta

Our king is swift to receive the blood of innocents. But over the same blood the clouds are grieving.

Hence the angels sing and resound in praises Glory to the Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. Our king is swift to receive the blood of innocents. But over the same blood the clouds are grieving.

St. Hildegard of Bingen

Joan, Joan!

The Fire of the Dove Ah! Jehanne, Jehanne!

Oh!

…valde beatus fuisti cum Verbum Dei te in igne columbe imbuit.

(ubi tu quasi aurora illuminatus es…)

…valde beatus fuisti cum Verbum Dei te in igne columbe imbuit.

Epilogue

(Letter from Joan of Arc)

Joan:

Car Dieu le Roy du ciel le vault, et cela est révélé

The Fire of the Dove Ah! Joan, Joan!

Oh!

…you were greatly blessed when the Word of God steeped you in the fire of the dove.

(where you were illumined like the dawn…)

…you were greatly blessed when the Word of God steeped you in the fire of the dove.

Epilogue

(Letter from Joan of Arc)

Joan:

So God King of Heaven, wills it; and so it has been revealed by the Maid…

PROGRAM NOTES

Voices of Light – Richard Einhorn

Imagine walking down an ordinary street in an ordinary city on an ordinary day. You turn the corner and suddenly without warning, you find yourself staring at the Taj Mahal. It was with that same sense of utter amazement and wonder that I watched Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc for the first time.

That was back in January of 1988. I was idly poking around in the film archives of New York's Museum of Modern Art, looking at short avant-garde films, when I happened across a still from Joan of Arc in the silent film catalog. In spite of a deep love of cinema and its history, I had never heard of either the director or the film, but since my friend Galen Brandt had suggested that I do a piece about Joan of Arc at some point, I asked to take a look at it. Some 81 minutes later, I walked out of the screening room shattered, having unexpectedly seen one of the most extraordinary works of art that I know. I immediately began to plan the piece about Joan of Arc that my friend had suggested.

In early 1993 Bob Cilman of the Northampton Arts Council agreed to present Voices of Light, and I wrote the entire score in about 3 1/2 months. In February of 1994, Voices of Light premiered to sold-out crowds at the Academy of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts, performed by the Arcadia Players and conducted by Margaret Irwin-Brandon. Since then, the piece has been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival and elsewhere. A CD featuring the medieval vocal group Anonymous 4 and the Radio Netherlands Philharmonic and Choir conducted by Steven Mercurio was released in October of 1995 on Sony Classical.

Voices of Light is a meditation on the life and personality of Joan of Arc. It is scored for soloists, chorus, orchestra, and one very special bell (about which more later). The libretto is a montage of ancient writings, assembled primarily from female medieval mystics including Joan of Arc herself. The “staging” of the work is a screening of The Passion of Joan of Arc. The piece explores the patchwork of emotions and thoughts that are stitched together into the notion of a female hero. Such a hero invariably transgresses the conventions and restrictions her society imposes. And Joan of Arc—the illiterate teenage peasant girl who led an army, the transvestite witch who became a saint—Joan of Arc transgressed them all.

About Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc was deeply religious, utterly chaste, and astonishingly brave in the face of horrific abuse. She certainly deserves the sainthood the Church bestowed upon her. But Joan challenges the very meaning of holiness. True, this image of the virginal shepherd girl called to a divine mission by angels is part of her story, but it is only one part.

It seems to clash with the fact that her closest companions were brutal soldiers with names like The Bastard of Orleans or La Hire (The Rage). It seems impossible that another of Joan's close intimates was Gilles de Rais, the infamous “Bluebeard” who was burned at the stake for the serial murder of young boys. And the humble pious

PROGRAM NOTES

image simply cannot accommodate a woman who, when asked about one of her childhood neighbors, a man who sympathized with her enemies, responded that she would cut his head off (“God willing,” of course).

Joan was born in about 1412 in Domremy, France, a tiny farming village in the Meuse Valley. When Joan was 13 or so, she began to hear voices. At seventeen, her voices told her that she had been given a divine mission to reunite France. At the time, in the middle of the Hundred Years War, much of France was in the hands of the hated English and their Burgundian allies. Charles, the uncrowned king or dauphin, was in exile, and his path to Reims, where all the kings of France had been crowned since time immemorial, was blocked by the English troops. Orleans, a city that lay in a strategically important area of the strife, had been besieged for over a year and had begun to weaken.

Spurred on by her voices, Joan implored Robert de Baudricourt, the governor of nearby Vaucouleurs, to permit her to travel to Charles’s court at Chinon. Initially reluctant, even incredulous, Baudricourt finally granted the permission, and Joan, “borrowing” some men’s clothing to disguise herself during the journey, left with two friends for the court of the uncrowned king.

Joan’s powers of persuasion must have been remarkable. She managed not only to arrange an audience with Charles but also to convince him she should travel with an army to help lift the siege of Orleans. Within days of her arrival, the French army, with Joan’s active participation, had destroyed the besieging English forces, a turning point in the war. Although seriously wounded, Joan helped lead the final successful assault on the Tourelles, the English garrison, an attack that resulted in the deaths of two of England's most important military commanders.

With Orleans secure, Joan and the army cleared a path to Reims for the coronation, recapturing numerous towns along the way. Joan was so feared by the English and their Burgundian allies that the mere announcement of her presence outside the walls of a town would elicit a quick surrender. Charles VII was crowned in Reims on July 17, 1429, with Joan of Arc by his side. It had been less than seven months since she had left her farm village, and Joan was seventeen years old.

For about a year or so, Joan was a mercenary knight, fighting (and winning) numerous battles. However, after she failed to take Paris in September of 1429, her fortunes began to wane, and in May of 1430, outside the walls of Compiègne, she was dragged from her horse by a Burgundian archer and captured. She was subsequently sold to the English and transported to Rouen, where the English and the Burgundians had arranged for a court of the Inquisition to try her for heresy. The trial’s purpose was not only to discredit her among her people (as she was already a legend in France), but also to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the king whom she had helped to crown. While in prison, Joan refused to give up her male clothes, was kept in a tiny cell, and was always in chains (she had tried to escape earlier in her captivity by leaping from the turret of a castle).

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In Rouen, arraigned before a panel of learned judges, priests, and lawyers, Joan was questioned repeatedly about her voices, her male dress, and her sense of her mission. After months of resistance which left her ill and exhausted, Joan was dragged out into a courtyard of the church of St. Ouen and publicly coerced into signing a statement of adjuration in which she denied that her voices were from God. She was sentenced to life imprisonment and her head was shaved. Three days later, however she retracted her abjuration and affirmed that her voices were divine. She was promptly excommunicated for heresy and burnt on May 30, 1431. Joan of Arc was nineteen years old when she died.

Twenty-five years later, Charles VII and Joan’s mother, Isabelle Romée, petitioned the pope to restore her to the Church. Many of the women and men who knew Joan from Domremy and from her career as a solider were interviewed. These transcripts (which, like the trial transcripts, have survived) provide substantial corroboration for a story that would otherwise seem unbelievable. In 1920, nearly 500 years after her death, Joan was declared a saint, the only saint who was first excommunicated and burned.

Joan’s refusal to conform to normal categories of behaviors creates many apparent paradoxes and contradictions. Yes, she was a great warrior, but she was also a pious mystic who would halt her soldiers simply to listen to church bells. She was an illiterate farm girl, but she had no problem consorting with royalty. Although she was the most practical and skeptical of leaders—she had quite a reputation for debunking fraudulent prophets—she heard voices that today would probably earn her a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.

Her powerful, complex personality has attracted an amazingly disparate group of admirers over the years, from George Bernard Shaw to Andrea Dworkin, to name just a few. She is a beloved Catholic saint and a hero for many young girls, regardless of their religious background. But in the course of my research, I also met with members of covens who worshipped Joan as a great witch. In the United States and England, numerous feminist and lesbian authors have written eloquently on Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, in France, her role as the supreme symbol of French nationalism has been co-opted by the extreme right wing. And, of course, Joan embodies the romantic myth of the misunderstood, uncompromising artist: true to her/his inner voice until death.

Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc

The strange history of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) nearly equals Joan’s itself. It has many of the same elements, including obsession, madness, and even fire.

The Passion of Joan of Arc was the second film made by Société Générale, the studio that had produced Abel Gance's Napoleon. In fact, Dreyer himself was on the set of the Gance film and used many members of the technical crew and several of the actors (notably Antonin Artaud, the stunningly handsome enfant terrible of the avant-garde theater, who was later incarcerated in a mental institution). The original screenplay for Joan was by Joseph Delteil, who had written a rather hyperventilated book about her. For one reason or another, Dreyer chose to forgo most of Delteil's ideas and instead used actual excerpts from the trial transcripts as the script (the film,

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which is set entirely at Joan’s trials, and burning, compresses the action of the trial from seven months into a single day).

To portray Joan of Arc, Dreyer cast against type Renée Falconetti, a leading member of the Comédie-Française. Rumors abound about the excruciating ordeal Falconetti suffered during the shoot: when her head was shaved for the final sequence of the film, apparently the entire crew wept for her and she broke down; the shooting ground to a halt while she recovered.

The film, censored somewhat by the Catholic Church prior to its release, was soon hailed as one of the greatest films of all time. Falconetti's performance was (and is) considered one of the most extraordinary ever filmed. With its extreme close-ups and bizarre camera angles, with an editing rhythm that breaks nearly every rule of the craft, The Passion of Joan of Arc makes virtually every movie critic and scholar’s short list of masterpieces. It clearly influenced such filmmakers as Bergman, Fellini, and Hitchcock, and echoes of its intense style appear in the work of such contemporary masters as Martin Scorsese. Shot without makeup and with “natural” acting, Joan looks like it was finished yesterday.

But a few months after the premiere, Joan’s judges descended upon Dreyer’s film. The negative and virtually all prints of The Passion of Joan of Arc were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Dreyer, referring in all likelihood to his work print for the original cut, painstakingly reconstructed the entire film from outtake footage that had survived the fire. This second version was destroyed in a second fire! Devastated, Dreyer gave up and moved on to his next film, Vampyr.

From here the history of the film becomes confusing. Highly corrupt prints that somehow managed to survive the fires circulated for a while. In addition, the Cinémathèque Française unearthed a copy of the film in its vaults (at the time, it was unclear which version it was). In the late forties and early fifties, a French film historian by the name of Lo Duca pieced together his version of the film (apparently using prints from both versions) and added a score that was a montage of Albinoni, Vivaldi, and other Baroque composers. The result so horrified Dreyer that he completely disowned the “Lo Duca” version.

Then, in 1981, several film cans from the ’20s were discovered at a mental institution in Oslo, Norway, stashed in the back of a closet. They were shipped, unopened to the Norwegian Film Institute. Inside the cans, in nearly perfect condition, was a copy of The Passion of Joan of Arc with Danish intertitles. The accompanying shipping information made it clear that it was, in fact, a print of the original version of Dreyer's great film.

Voices of Light

The Passion of Joan of Arc was an inspiration for Voices of Light, but my goal was to attempt a stand-alone work that would speak to various aspects of Joan’s life and legend.

As I was developing the piece, I recalled my studies of medieval musical practice, in

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particular the multi-lingual motets that I love to listen to. The notion of a work of art with simultaneous layers of text struck me as a medieval idea that was also delightfully modern as well.

Since Joan heard voices, I knew the work would have singing, but what would everyone sing? I did a considerable amount of research into the history of Joan’s life and persona and began to explore the rich body of literature written by female mystics from the Middle Ages. I decided to create a libretto that would consist primarily of excerpts from these writings, chosen for their beauty as literature and also for their relevance to themes in Joan’s life. In addition, I decided that all the words sung in the score would be in ancient languages (Latin, Old and Middle French, and Italian).

A brief example: although the Inquisitors did not physically harm Joan, she was shown the instruments of torture. I thought that, rather than speak directly about this horror, it might be more interesting to explore some of the stranger aspects of the medieval view of physical pain, the tradition of suffering as a means of achieving spiritual ecstasy. Accordingly, the chorus obsessively repeats the phrase "glorious wounds" while a solo soprano sings a combination of lurid texts from both Blessed Angela and Na Prous Boneta, a 13th-century penitent and 14th-century heretic, respectively.

I didn’t want to have any characters in a conventional sense, but after reading Joan of Arc’s military correspondence (although illiterate, Joan dictated her letters to a scribe), I decided that I wanted her to make an appearance in my piece, singing excerpts from her letters as well as some other texts that she either certainly said or could have said. Since no one knows what Joan looked like, I decided that no one would know much about her singing voice: accordingly, Joan's “character” is sung neither in a soprano nor alto range, but in both simultaneously, with simple harmony and in rhythmic unison.

Just prior to writing Voices of Light, I traveled to France to visit some of the important Joan of Arc historical sites. I went to Orleans where she won her first battle and also to Rouen, where I was deeply moved by the ruins of the castles where Joan was held and the cross erected at the site of her martyrdom. I also traveled to the little village of Domremy, Joan’s birthplace in the southeast, where her house and church, much restored, still stand. I took along a portable DAT recorder and recorded the sound of the Domremy church bell and later incorporated it into my score. I felt that Joan, who so loved church bells, whose voices seemed to speak to her whenever they were ringing, would appreciate the effort.

–Richard Einhorn Composer

RICHARD EINHORN, COMPOSER

Richard Einhorn's unique music has been described as "hauntingly beautiful,” "sensational,” and "overwhelming in its emotional power.” He has become one of a small handful of living composers who not only reaches a large worldwide audience but whose music receives widespread critical praise for its integrity, emotional depth, and craft.

In February 2009, Einhorn premiered The Origin, an opera/oratorio based on the work and life of Charles Darwin. Performed to packed houses and standing ovations, the piece garnered praise from the Syracuse Post-Standard: “Einhorn has created an imaginative work layered with profound insight.”

Einhorn's “opera with silent film,” Voices of Light, has been hailed in reviews as “a great masterpiece of contemporary music” and “a work of meticulous genius.” After selling out its New York City premiere engagements at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, Voices of Light has had over 150 performances throughout the U.S. and the world, including sold-out performances at Avery Fisher Hall; the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap with the National Symphony; the Cabrillo Festival with Marin Alsop; the Sydney Opera House in Australia; and two extremely successful national tours featuring the medieval vocal group Anonymous 4. The Sony Classical CD of Voices of Light was a Billboard classical bestseller, earning Einhorn the distinction of being one of only a few composers to have made “the charts.”

Voices of Light has attracted national media attention, including articles in the Wall Street Journal, segments on All Things Considered and Performance Today, and an extended profile on CBS television network's magazine show, CBS Sunday Morning. Recent performances of Voices of Light have included performances all over the U.S.; at Esplanade in Singapore; in Reykjavik, Iceland, with the Iceland Symphony; in Switzerland; and in Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa.

Einhorn has written opera, orchestral and chamber music, song cycles, film music, and dance scores. Among his many projects is the wildly popular Red Angels for New York City Ballet set to Einhorn's music with choreography by Ulysses Dove, which had its television premiere on Live From Lincoln Center (PBS) in May of 2002. His film credits include the Academy Award–winning documentary short, Educating Peter (HBO) and Arthur Penn's thriller Dead of Winter (MGM), starring Mary Steenburgen; and Fire-Eater directed by Pirjo Honkasalo, for which Einhorn won the Jussi (Finnish Academy Award) for Best Musical Score.

Born in 1952, Richard Einhorn graduated summa cum laude in music from Columbia University. Before turning his attention exclusively to composition, Einhorn worked as a record producer for such artists as Meredith Monk and The New York Philharmonic. His production of the Bach Cello Suites with Yo-Yo Ma won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Performance.

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FEATURED ARTIST

Other recent works include The Spires, The City, The Field, a 9/11 memorial premiered by the Albany Symphony. A Carnival of Miracles, a piece written for Anonymous 4, premiered to a sold-out crowd at New Sounds Live and broadcasted live over WNYC-FM. My Many Colored Days is an orchestral commission from the Minnesota Orchestra. Einhorn lives in New York City with his wife, Amy Singer, and their daughter, Miranda. For further information, please contact Alliance Artist Management allianceartistmanagement.com richardeinhorn.com.

ANNA ESCHBACH, SOPRANO

Highly sought-after as a performer and private voice instructor in Central Florida, Anna Eschbach earned her bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Appalachian State University and a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Tennessee. Born and raised in Orlando, Ms. Eschbach has performed with numerous companies throughout Florida, including the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Opera Orlando, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, and the Orlando Philharmonic. Known for her performance in oratorio, guest solo appearances include Saint-Saens’ Oratorio de Noel, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes, Poulenc’s Gloria, Rutter’s Gloria and Magnificat, and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, as well as Orff’s Carmina Burana. Ms. Eschbach has toured internationally in Switzerland, the UK, and Kenya. Since moving back to Orlando in 2013, Ms. Eschbach has maintained a thriving private voice studio in the Orlando area and serves on the voice faculty at Rollins College and performs full time with the Basilica Choir of Mary, Queen of the Universe.

MORGAN PECKELS, MEZZO-SOPRANO

Mezzo-Soprano Morgan Peckels is an active performer and highly sought-after voice teacher in the Central Florida area. Earning her bachelor’s degree from Elon University and her master’s from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Morgan can be seen singing with the numerous orchestras and performance groups in the state of Florida such as the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Orlando’s Messiah Choral Society, The Orlando Philharmonic, Space Coast Symphony, and Opera Orlando. She is a founding member of The Bach Vocal Artists with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, and her solo oratorio credits include Bach’s B Minor Mass, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans, Mozart’s Requiem and Richard Einhorn Voices of Light where she was praised by Matt Palm of the Orlando Sentinel for her “hauntingly lamenting tones.” Her operatic credits include The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly as well as roles in Trouble in Tahiti, Dido and Aeneas, and La Rondine. Morgan is currently on the voice faculty at Rollins College and runs a thriving private studio from her home in Winter Springs.

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FEATURED ARTIST

JOHN GRAU, TENOR

John Grau, a specialist of oratorio and opera from the Baroque to 20th-century music, has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Ravinia Music Festival, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the Boulder Bach Festival, the Colorado Bach Ensemble, the Oratory Bach in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the inaugural Duke University Bach Cantata Series. As a recitalist, John is a strong advocate for contemporary music and has presented the music of Bernstein and Copland. Dr. Grau received his BA from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree from Northern Arizona University, and his doctorate degree from the University of Minnesota. Having taught at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Dr. Grau is currently head of the voice division at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and appears with many professional vocal ensembles. Dr. Grau’s scholarly activities contribute to vocal pedagogy, and he has presented his research on developing tenor voices using excerpts from Handel oratorio arias at the Minnesota Music Educators Association, and at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Convention.

STEPHEN MUMBERT, BASS-BARITONE

Hailed as a “Scene-stealer…with an unquestionably evil-sounding bass voice and a knack for staying in character even when he isn’t the center of attention,” Stephen Mumbert is currently an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Rollins College and maintains a private voice studio here in Orlando FL. He is a graduate of Stetson University where he holds a B.M. in voice performance, and he also holds an M.M. in opera from The Boston Conservatory. Recent performances include Riccardo in Bellini’s I Puritani with Minnesota Concert Opera, Mozart’s Requiem with the Riverside Community Chorale and Orchestra and the Dakota Valley Symphony (broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television), Handel’s Messiah with the Villages Philharmonic, Messiah Choral Society, and Space Coast Symphony Orchestra, Jesus in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, BWV 90, and Faure’s Requiem with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Ben in Menotti’s The Telephone with Musical Traditions, Mr. Gobineau in Menotti’s The Medium at the Orlando Fringe Festival, Adam in Haydn’s Creation, the Doctor in the Death of Ivan Ilych, Count Monterone in Rigoletto, and Actor 8 in All is Calm and Marco in Gianni Schicchi both with Opera Orlando, and a new opera project performing the lead roles of Guildenstern in Herschel Garfein’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Hopkins in Robert Aldridge's Sister Carrie staged with the respective Grammy award winning composers in residence. Upcoming local performances include a return to Steinmetz Hall to sing the bass solos in Handel’s Messiah, bass soloist for A Classic Christmas, Bach’s Magnificat, and Voices of Light, all with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. Stephen is thrilled to be a founding member of the Bach Vocal Artists.

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BACH FESTIVAL CHAMBER CHOIR

Catalina Arias, 5

Liz Ausburn, 3

Jim Beck, 11

Ellen Huey Cassel, 12

George Chandler, 6

Maya Clausen, 3

Vivian Cook, 4

Michael Creighton, 2

Theresa Dulong, 14

Dante Duphorne, 15

Ashley Duvé, 8

Jolie Eichler, 15

Raphael Fernandez

Ericka Glenn

Barbara Gomes

Diane Hansen, 9

Grant Hayes, 4

Ariel Hudak, 6

Howard Jaffe, 4

Sondra Jones, 12

Beth Kassander, 7

Rachel LaQuea

Julie Mathews, 1

David Mattson, 16

Margaret McMillen, 30

Janice Meyer, 7

Margaret Munro

John Niss, 28

Luke Noles, 7

Liana Pacilli, 11

Ashley Peters, 5

Veronica Prevost, 2*

Bj Price, 18

David Romaine, 4

Mikaella Romero, 1*

Pamela Rosario, 8

Jane Scamehorn, 8

Karyll Shaw, 8

Diana Sisley, 16

Beverly Slaughter, 48

Jennifer Thibodeau, 3

Jeanine Viau, 6

Cezarina Vintilla

Richard Wilson

Lynn Peghiny, Accompanist

Number denotes years of service

* Rollins College student

VIOLIN I

Routa KroumovitchGomez*

Alvaro Gomez*

Shelley Mathews

Mary Bos

Joni Roos

Rhonda Burnham

Dina Fedosenko

*Co-concertmaster

BACH FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

VIOLA

Susan Christian

Dan Flick

CELLO

David Bjella

Shona McFadyen

STRING BASS

Rob Kenno

FLUTE

Nora Lee Garcia

Elsa Kate Nichols

OBOE

Lora Macpherson

PERCUSSION

Thad Anderson

Jeremy Katalenic

KEYBOARD

Kristine Griffin

Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Presents

tenTHING BRASS ENSEMBLE

Friday, March 17, 2024 • 7:30 pm | Knowles Memorial Chapel

PROGRAM

Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (6’)

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (7’)

1. Overture

2. Chaconne des Scaramouches, Trivelins et Arlequin

3. Marche

Morceaux, from op. 15 (6’)

Romanian Folk Dances (7’)

1. Jac cu Báta

2. Braul

3. Pe loc

4. Buciumeana

5. Poarga Romaneasca

6. Maruntel

Nocturne et Cortège (5’)

Share My Yoke (5’)

Storskrytarstev (2’)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)

Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907)

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Major Joy Webb (1932-2023)

Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981)

INTERMISSION

Oberek no. 1 (2’)

*Ten of Hearts (6’)

Milonga del angel (7’)

Rissolty Rossolty (10’)

Three Preludes (8’)

West Side Story (13’)

1. I Feel Pretty

2. A boy like that – I have a love

3. Tonight

Gražyna Barewicz (1909-1969)

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

*The Bach Festival Society has underwritten this new composition as a Co-Commissioner

Please turn off cell phone and electronic devices prior to the start of this performance. The Bach Festival Society’s policies strictly prohibit photography, filming, or recording of any kind during performances without the express written permission of the Society.

tenTHING BRASS ENSEMBLE

Tine Thing Helseth, leader

Formed in 2007 by Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth as a fun and exciting collaboration between musical friends, the ten-piece, all-female brass ensemble tenThing have firmly established themselves on the international scene to great acclaim. tenThing are celebrated for their commitment to outreach and access to music through a diverse repertoire that spans from Mozart to Weill, Grieg to Bernstein, and Lully to Bartok. The group works closely with Norwegian guitarist and arranger Jarle Storløkken in the arrangement of scores for the ensemble, enabling them to play pieces of differing instrumentations.

tenThing first came into prominence thanks to performances all over their native Norway, eventually delighting a huge national audience by opening the 2011 Norwegian Grammy Awards. Soon after, the group drew international attention after their highly successful appearance at the BBC Proms at London’s Cadogan Hall. Elsewhere in Europe, they have performed at a wide range of prestigious festivals and concert halls, including the Schleswig-Holstein, Beethoven Bonn, Gstaad, MDR Musiksommer, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rheingau, Bodensee, Engadin, Merano, Thüringer Bachwochen, and Bremen festivals in Central Europe, the Merano and Sienna festivals in Italy, the NCPA Beijing May Festival, and Moscow’s House of Music.

In Spring 2017, the ensemble embarked on their American debut tour, which included concerts in New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and at the renowned Wolf Trap Festival. tenThing also made their Paris debut at the St Denis Festival in May 2017. Following their international successes, they returned to the USA again in 2019 and will embark on their third visit in November/December 2022 performing Holiday-themed programme of Christmas songs from all over Europe and America. Upcoming seasons also see tenThing back on tour in Germany, Sweden and across Europe.

Photo credit: Anna Julia Granberg-Blunderbuss

FEATURED ARTIST

JENNIFER HIGDON, COMPOSER

Jennifer Higdon, Pulitzer Prize and three-time Grammy winner is one of the most performed living American composers working today. She is the recent recipient of Northwestern University’s Nemmers Prize and the UT Austin EM King Award. Other honors include the Guggenheim, Koussevitzky, and Pew Fellowships, as well as two awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Commissions have come from a wide range of performers: from the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony, to The President’s Own Marine Band; from the Tokyo String Quartet to Eighth Blackbird, as well as individual artists such as singer Thomas Hampson, violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist, Yuja Wang. Her first opera on Charles Frazier’s book, Cold Mountain, was commissioned by Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia, NC Opera, and Minnesota Opera and won the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere. Higdon makes her living from commissions and serves as composer-in-residence with various orchestras throughout the country. Her works are recorded on over 80 CDs.

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READ ABOUT THE HISTORIC 90TH SEASON

Historic 90th Annual Bach Festival Season

Announced by John V. Sinclair

The venerable Bach Festival Society of Winter Park will present an unprecedented season of programming to celebrate its 90th anniversary.

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ACCESSIBILITY

The Bach Festival Society is committed to making its programs accessible to all audiences. Tiedtke Concert Hall and Knowles Memorial Chapel on the Rollins College campus in Winter Park have accessible entrances and parking options available, as does Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in downtown Orlando. Please call 407.646.2182 for assistance with questions or concerns.

COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park believes that all people deserve equal access and opportunities to participate in a vibrant, creative life. We are committed to policies and practices to increase diversity in the governance and administration of the Society, to deliver programming that illuminates diverse experiences, and to engage the broader community through outreach and education.

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park is an independent nonprofit organization that brings classical music experiences to delight, inform and inspire audiences of all ages. Your investment in the power of music will support the Society’s ongoing efforts on stage, in the classroom and across Central Florida.

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CONTINUO SOCIETY

The Continuo Society recognizes patrons who have chosen to provide for the Bach Festival Society through their estate plans. These thoughtful legacy gifts will help sustain the Society's mission for many years to come. For more information about major and planned gift opportunities, please contact Executive Director Kathy Belinsky at 407.691.1056 or KBerlinsky@BachFestivalFlorida.org.

CONTINUO SOCIETY MEMBERS

Anonymous (2)

John W. and Linda Cone

Allen

P. Andrew and Autumn Ames in honor of John M. Tiedtke

M. Elizabeth Brothers*

Dana and Diana Eagles

Paul M. Harmon

Karen and Mickey Lane in

memory of Bernice and Stanley Levy

Rob and Wendy Landry

Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen

Leyse Lowry in honor of John V. Sinclair

Pat McKechnie

Dr. Blair and Diane Murphy

Kenneth* and Ann Hicks Murrah

The Rev.* and Mrs. Eric Ravndal, III

Drs. John and Gail Sinclair

Bosco R. and Beverly J. Slaughter

Dr. Walter Stamm

Heather and David Torre

IN HONOR OF JOHN V. SINCLAIR ON HIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY

Anonymous (4)

Athalia and Robert Cope

Tim Delcavo

Michael and Aimee Rusinko Kakos

Susan D. Tucker

*deceased

JOHN V. SINCLAIR ENDOWMENT FUND FOR ARTISTIC EDUCATION

Established in 2020 in honor of Dr. John V. Sinclair's 30th anniversary as Artistic Director, this fund will help ensure that future Artistic Directors will have sufficient resources to maintain a level of artistic excellence. We invite all Bach Festival patrons to join the generous donors listed below to build this important resource. Contact Executive Director Kathy Belinsky at 407.691.1056 or KBerlinsky@BachFestivalFlorida. org for details.

GIFTS AND PLEDGES OF $20,000 AND ABOVE

Cynthia and Alex Mackinnon

The Rev.* and Mrs. Eric Ravndal, III

Sally and Jack Schott

The Tiedtke Family

GIFTS AND PLEDGES OF $10,000-$19,999

S. Blair and Diane Murphy

Bill and Sheila Oelfke

Leila Edgerton Trismen

GIFTS AND PLEDGES OF $5,000-$9,999

Kathy Johnson Berlinsky

Brock and Sarah McClane

Gerard and Nichola Mitchell

Bosco R. and Beverly J. Slaughter

GIFTS AND PLEDGES OF $1,000-$4,999

Anonymous (2)

Brian Ainsley and Candice Crawford

P. Andy and Autumn Ames

Stewart Anderson

Michael and Mabel Burridge

Susan and Robert Christian

Dana and Diana Eagles

Alvaro and Routa Gomez

Leyse Lowry

Katie Mess

Janice and George Meyer

Beth and Jack Nagle

Donald A. Nash

Liana and Fred Pacilli

Dan and Barbara Preslar

BJ Price

Ann Morgan Saurman

Vivian Southwell

Edward and Virginia Ubels

BettyJane and Cecil Wilson, M.D.

GIFTS AND PLEDGES OF UNDER $1,000

John Adams

Stewart Anderson

Meg Baldwin

Will and Barby Barbara

Jim Beck

Marianne Franus Beck

Mary Berglund-Bos

Bill and Becky Brown

Marcia and Michael Brown

Tim and Rhonda Burnham

Laurie Calhoun

Paul and Janet Chilcote

Tom Cook and Patricia Simmons

Grant and Peg Cornwell

Alan and Susan Davis

Daniel Flick

Alice and Larry Fortunato

Bill and Joanne Frederick

Elizabeth Gwinn and Michael Galletta

Lee and Diane Hansen

Kathleen Hartung

Sherwood Hawkins and Brenda Higgins

Amanda Kinder

Wendy and Rob Landry

Karen and Mickey Lane

Aaron Lefkowitz

Kay and Gerald Marin

Lora MacPherson

Elizabeth Maupin and Jay Yellen

David Odahowski

Bill and Sherry Orr

Maurice O’Sullivan

Liana and Fred Pacilli

Martin Phillips

Dan and Barbara Preslar

Dr. Mark and Beverly Rich in honor of our favorite conductor

Lisa and David Rosen

Joe Sapora and Carol Ducas

Dr. Daniel and Nancy Sharp

Karyll Shaw

Amanda Shoopman

Diana and Tim Sisley

Brian Solomon

Jessica Hall Speak

Matthew Swope

Jodi Tassos

Charles Thatcher

Jeff and Kathy Thomas

Susan and Michael Tucker

Jeanine Viau

Cezarina and Ray Vintilla

Kathleen Wassum-Hame

Diana Webb and T.J. Trapp

Jane R. White

Patty White

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whritenour

Gwendolyn and Wilford Williams

*deceased

OUR 2023-2024 SEASON DONORS

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park would like to thank the individuals and community partners below who have generously made a pledge or contribution in support of the dynamic artistic and educational programming and community engagement for the 89th Season.

BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY VISIONARIES

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Bach Festival Choir

Orange County Government through the Arts and Cultural Affairs Program

State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture

Beth and Jack Nagle

Rollins College

United Arts Central Florida

J. S. BACH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

$50,000 - $99,999

Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation

CONDUCTOR'S CIRCLE

$25,000 - $49,999

Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation

Mr. Alex and The Hon. Cynthia Mackinnon

Richard Russell and Thomas Ouellette

Sally and Jack Schott

The Hon. Winifred J. Sharp

COMPOSERS CIRCLE

$15,000 - $24,999

John V. Frank

The Joe and Sarah Galloway Foundation

Ginsburg Family Foundation

Massey Services, Inc.

The Tiedtke Family

SAINT CECILIA CIRCLE

$10,000 - $14,999

David and Judy Albertson

Michael and Aimee Kakos

Chesley G. Magruder Foundation

Wayne and Robin Roberts

Leila Edgerton Trismen

CHORAL CIRCLE

$7,500-$9,999

Kathryn and the late Bud Grammer

Thomas P. and Patricia A. O'Donnell Foundation

Sarah Ravndal- in Loving Memory of my husband, The Rev. Eric Ravndal III

Bosco R. and Beverly J. Slaughter

PATRON'S CIRCLE

$5,000 - $7,499

Anonymous (4)

Kathy Johnson Berlinsky

Jeff and Nichole Bromme

Cynthia Brumback

Festival of Orchestras Endowment Fund

Sheryl Kerr

Beverly M. King

Andrea and Philip Kobrin

Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen

Dr. Hugh F. McKean Memorial Fund

Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation

Richard Russell and Thomas Ouellette

Kelly Price

Dr. MK Reischmann

Dr. John V. Sinclair and Dr. Gail D. Sinclair

George R. and Eleanor C. Taylor in memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

John Templeton Foundation

Dr. Joe and Sue Warren

Welsh Charitable Trust

Marchetta Tate Wood

ARTISTIC CIRCLE

$2,500 - $4,999

The Brumback Family in memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Patsy L. Duphorne

Dana and Diana Eagles

Jeff and June Flowers Giving Fund

Jeannette Leinbach

David R. Mattson

The Mayflower Retirement Center, Inc.

Bj Price

Ann Saurman

Dr. Tracy Truchelut and Mr. Robert A. White

2023-2024 SEASON DONORS

BENEFACTORS

$1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous (3)

Anonymous in memory of Clifford and Marilyn Lee

Anonymous in Memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Keith and Eleanor Ackermann

David and Judy Albertson

John W. and Linda Cone Allen

Mr. and Mrs. P. Andy and Autumn Ames, In Memory of John M. Tiedtke

Tim and Sue Antonition

Ellen Arnold

Jay H. Berlinsky

William Hunt Bieberbach

Donna Borko

Michael and Mabel Burridge

Tom and Kathy Cardwell

O'Ann and Pat Christiansen

Robert and Athalia Cope

Alan and Susan Davis

Lee Eubank

Susan and Randolph Fields

Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Flick

Barbara and Richard Fulton in memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Linda Modrak and William Gallo

G. Randall and Nancy Gibbs in honor of John Sinclair

Alvaro and Routa Gomez

Freddi and Jim Goodrich

Mrs. Janice Granier Gruber

Wallace H. Hall

Paul M. Harmon

Dr. Grant Hayes

Dr. Mimi Hull

Allen and the late Dana Irwin

Nigel John and Heather Badawi John

Ann Kurth in memory of Sylvia Kurth

Wendy Landry

The Lee Foundation

Leyse Lowry

Edward Manning

Jody and Craig Maughan

Elizabeth Maupin and Jay Yellen

Dr. Margaret McMillen

Jeff and Mindy Moore

John Niss and Lisa Mouton

William and Sheila Oelfke

Leslie King ONeal

Pat and Randy Robertson

Dr. F. Robert and Norene Rolle

Joan Ruffier and Edward Manning in Memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Sara and Bill Segal

Dr. Karyll N. Shaw

Sidhu Family in honor of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Fred Lyndon Stone

John and Beatriz Struck

Jodi Tassos

Jodi Tassos in memory of John Tassos

Kathryn C. Ustler

Dr. Nancy van den Berg

Hardy Vaughn and Betty Brady

Hardy Vaughn and Betty Brady in Memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Gwendolyn B. and Wilford J. Williams

Betty Jane and Cecil Wilson, MD

FRIENDS

$500 - $999

Anonymous (5)

David B. Baer

Richard O. Baldwin, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Donald G. Beyer

Carol Beyer in memory of Dr. Don Beyer

Carol Beyer

David Caudle and Gil Villalobos

Larry and Jennifer Coates

Thomas Cook and Patricia Simmons

Mary Anne Elwood

Raphael Fernandez and Family

Arunas E. Gasparaitis, MD

Stan and Regunia Griggs

Gregg Gronlund Family

John and Jennifer Hallenbeck

Allison and Peter Hosbein

Lars and Julie Houmann

Bette Jore

Frank and Etta Jean Juge

Dr. Susan Cohn Lackman and Dr. Richard D.

Knapp

2023-2024 SEASON DONORS

Rita Lowndes

Dr. Jim Madison

Susan Miller

D'Arcy Murphy

Eva Burbank Murphy

Donald A. Nash in memory of Marie D. Nash

Jane Secrist Newnum

James F. Niss

Stuart E. Oleson

Dr. Daniel and Lesley Podberesky

Dan and Barbara Preslar

Dr. and Mrs. Mark and Beverly Rich in loving memory of Dr. Seymour Cohen

Dr. Richard Sandler

Jim and Pat Schroeder

Dr. Mubarak Shah and Ms. Becky Lee

Lee and Judy Van Valkenburgh

Nancy R. Wagers

Harold and Libby Ward

Diana Webb and Dr. T.J. Trapp

Craig and Jeanne Weeks

Jane R. White

SUPPORTERS

$250 - $499

Anonymous (3)

Judy Alper

Phil and Jennifer Anderson

George and Leslie Andreae

Lawrence D. Brown, M.D.

Brenda Bullock-Paget

Susan and Robert Christian

Guy and Donna Colado

Endean Fund - Mr. Jeffrey Endean and Dr.

Myrna Endean

The Honorable and Mrs. William Frederick

Daniel Flick

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Grau

Larry and Debbie Halye

Kathryn Harbaugh

Patricia Higginbotham

Rebecca Hull

Mr. & Mrs W H Jayne, III

The Hon. Toni Jennings

Kenneth and Ann Hicks Murrah Endowment

Bob and Betty Kimbrel

Carol Klim

Paul and Nola Knouse

Dr. Yen-Yen Kressel

Neva and Bill Meek

Lois H. Mills

Barbara and Peter Minderman

Ann Hicks Murrah

Jocelyn Amalong Oehmler

Leslie King O'Neal

Liana and Frederick Pacilli

Nancy F. Peed

Dr. Calvin and Pamela Peters

Roger D. and Rosalind Ray

John and Virginia Rigsby

Joy Roney

William C. Schwartz Fund

Tyler Simonton

Jeffrey T. Spoeri

Rene Stutzman

Jackie and Rod Sward

Amie H. Tishkoff

Barbara L. Turner

Paul and Madeleine Vilmos

Cezarina and Ray Vintilla in honor of Stela and Dumitru Toaxen

Kenneth Ward

Katy Moss Warner

Carrie and Kevin Wendelburg

Susan Whritenour

CONTRIBUTORS

$100 - $249

Anonymous (11)

Ruby Abreu in honor of Jane Secrist Newnum

David Aiken

Stewart and Robin Anderson

Nancy Appich

Margaret Atkins

Russell and Meg Baldwin

Mary D. Balk

Will and Barby Barbara

Denise Schabacker Barnes

Jim D. Beck

Jerry Janesick and Cheryl Bollinger

Kathleen McKee Brenner

Bill and Becky Brown

Lucie Broyles

Tim and Rhonda Burnham

2023-2024 SEASON DONORS

Colin Byrne and Bert Rodriguez

Linda Carpenter

Chance and Christina Carter

Anne Claiborne MD

Martin and Susan Collins

Commerce Bank & Trust

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Conway

Terry and Paul Creighton

Diane Culler

G. Dappert and J. Wixted

Edward and Janet Davenport

Carl and Carrie Davis

Dante Duphorne

Betsy Gardner Eckbert

Hoyt and Charlene Edge

Marjorie and Harold Emmert

Mary Frances Emmons

Mr. and Mrs. John Engle

Candice T. Erick

Elizabeth and Philip Eschbach

Deirdre and Shayne Floyd in memory of Dr.

Donald Beyer

Effective Financial Services Inc.

Rosemary Frankwick

Christina and Brad Gant

Elicia Garcia

Penny S. Gilman

Gail Graham

Mike and Ceil Graham

Dr. Scott Greenwood and Dr. Pamela

Freeman

Donald and Mary Pat Guske in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Marty and Mike Haddad

Bea Hoelle

Dr. and Mrs. G. Wyckliffe Hoffler

Silvia S. Ibanez

Beth and Jack Isler

V.J. James in Memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Ann Johnson

Leslie and Sondra Jones

Gary Kane

Maria Keller

Richard and Martha Kessler

Mary Swain Landreth

Emily Lawton

Aaron Lefkowitz

Dr. Michael and Diane Levine

M.J. Lowitz

Ms. Lora MacPherson

Brian M. Malec

Gerald and Kay Marin

Shelley and Doug Mathews

Carolyn Maue and Bryan Hunt

Justin McGill in memory of Joy Groves McGill

Pat McKechnie

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Metzger

Friend of the Bach Festival Choir

Congressman John L. Mica

Carolyn Minear

Geoffrey C. Moehl

Joseph Mundy and Thomas Bastian

Linda Naughtin

Roxanne Niles

Paul and Betsy Owens

M. Carmela Pantano in memory of Dr. Donald Beyer

Margaret A. Patten

Oliver and Kim Peters

Sue and Ed Peterson

Martin Phillips

David Rea

Tom and Cathy Regan

Peter Riddleberger in memory of Philip Springer

Bradley Roberts

Holly Rogers

Jane and Bruce Scamehorn

Paul Schmalzer

Nancy Seaman in loving memory of Hod Seaman

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Sichler III

William and Dorothy Silverman

Diana Sisley

Judith Smelser

Celnah Smith in memory of my husband Leon Smith

Vivian Southwell in memory of Dana Irwin

Elizabeth Stewart

Dawn and George Sumrall

Vernon Swartsel

Trivergent Trust in Memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

2023-2024 SEASON DONORS

Tim and Barbara Trombitus

Susan and Michael Tucker

Edward and Virginia Ubels

Tye Van Buren

Kim van Nymegen

In honor of Peter Schreyer, Crealde's Executive Director

Madeline Wiley

Stuart Wills

Laura M. Woodbury

Nicholas Yarnold

Dr. and Mrs. Lee Zehngebot

Armand and Alison Zilioli

Mary Lou Zobel

Hans Zwart

* Donors in the above list are recognized for their gifts and pledges received in support of the 2023-2024 Season prior to publication. Please advise us of any errors or omissions.

We are grateful for the generous support of donors like you. View the full donor report including the most recent gifts since publication of this program at BachFestivalFlorida.org/donor-list

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Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Bach Festival Society. There are many ways you can “give Bach.”

Thank you!

BachFestivalFlorida.org/giving

Collaborative Campaign for the Arts & United Arts of Central Florida Donors United Arts of Central Florida is your arts agency uniting the community and fueling the arts. With the help of individual donors, corporations, foundations and public funding, United Arts inspires creativity, builds community and strengthens the economy in Central Florida. United Arts is proud to facilitate arts education programs for all ages and provide critical funding and comprehensive marketing for local art, science, and history organizations and individual artists. Leading one of the largest collaborative fundraising campaigns in the country and uniting the regions cornerstone arts and cultural organizations, United Arts is dedicated to ensuring the arts are for all. United Arts is deeply grateful to its donors and community partners for their investment in and support of Central Florida’s creative community and the enormous impact it has on our lives every day.

The following contributions were made to United Arts or the 2022 Collaborative Campaign for the Arts between July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023. www.unitedartscfl.org | 407.628.0333

CORPORATE GOVERNMENT DONORS

$100,000+

City of Orlando and Employees

Darden Restaurants, Inc., and the Darden Restaurants Foundation

Dr. Phillips Charities

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Inc.

Florida Department of State National Endowment for the Arts

Orange County, Florida and Employees, and Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs

Walt Disney World Resort and The Walt Disney Company Foundation

University of Central Florida

$50,000 - $99,999

Anonymous

Duke Energy and Duke Energy Foundation and Employees

Frontline Insurance and Lanier & LaVoyce Porter

The Massey Services Family and Team Members

$25,000 - $49,999

Florida Blue

Greater Orlando Aviation Authority

Orlando Magic and Employees, and Orlando Magic Youth Foundation

Universal Orlando Foundation

$10,000 - $24,999

Anonymous

The Ballet Academy of Central Florida

Bank of America

Central Florida Foundation

City of Winter Park

Florida Charities Foundation

Lowndes and Employees

OUC-The Reliable One and Employees

OX Group, LLC

SchenkelShultz

Verizon

Wisne Charitable Foundation

Writer’s Block Bookstore

$7,500 - $9,999

Get Off the Bus LLC

Harbinger Capital Advisors

KPMG, LLP

Seretta Construction, Inc.

$5,000 - $7,499

Anonymous

AmFund

The Commerce Fund of Florida

Crystal Photonics, Inc.

Darden Credit Union

Drew Johann on behalf of Stifel

Ernst & Young LLP

Fifth Third Bank

Florida Theatrical Association

Gary Lambert Salon in honor of Robert Hill

MSL CPAs & Advisors

Orlando Health

Publix Super Markets Charities

Rotary Club of Winter Garden

SPM, LLC WeldenField Development

Upshot

UNITED ARTS CENTRAL FLORIDA DONORS

Corporate and Government Donors

$2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

Wayne Dictor/Dictor Financial LLC

Downtown Arts District Drive Shack

Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation

Hilb Group of Florida

Joshi Law Firm, PA

Little Diversified Architectural Consulting

The Mayflower Retirement Center, Inc.

NEI General Contracting

The Orlando Law Group

Orlando Sanford International Inc.

Qwick

Ray & Nicole Reed - Cutco Cutlery

The Schaller Group

Tavistock Development Company

Edward Whalley - Anthros Inc.

Todd Wheeler - Wheeler Projects Inc.

$1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous

Advanced Behavioral Health Center

The Balmoral Group, LLC

CannaBus LLC

Caribe Royale Orlando

Diane Meiller and Associates

Inc. - Diane Meiller-Cook

The Earl and Bettie Fields Automotive Group Foundation, Inc.

Mount Dora Adventure Tours

Enterprise Fleet Management

Equitable Wealth Management Strategies

Douglas Foreman Fringe Benefit Plans

Full Sail University

Gold Key Roofing

Greg Neal - Neal Pottery

Hilton Orlando

HIP3 Home Improvement Pros

Hoagland Law PLLC

Hometown Entertainment

The Joelson Foundation

Leviton Manufacturing Company

$100,000+

Anonymous

Laurence and Susan Costin

Ginsburg Family Foundation

Helen Leon

$50,000 - $99,999

David and Judy Albertson

John and Lee Benz

Frank J. Doherty

Janet Gamache

Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation

Larry Kellogg and Cathy Roth

The Mary Palmer Family Foundation

Harold and Rosy Mills

John and Audrey Ruggieri

Frank Santos

$25,000 - $49,999

Anonymous

Jim and Barbara Caldwell

Tom and Kathy Cardwell

Elaine Berol Taylor & Scott Bevan

Taylor Foundation

Mr. Alex and The Hon. Cynthia Mackinnon

Marcus & Millichap

Meehle & Jay PA

The Mount Dora Bistro

Mount Dora Women’s Committee of Fine Arts

Osceola County Board of County Commissioners Park Ave CDs

Maegan Pierce and Behavior Concierge

Pineloch Management Corporation

Piñero Preventive Medical Care

Premier Oracle Elevator

The Ritz-Carlton & JW Marriott, Grande Lakes

Rollins College

Seaside Bank and Trust Shamrock Management LLC

Sihle Insurance Group

Steamroller Studios

Sunrise Bank - Barry Griffiths

Tailside Aviation

Valencia College

Weedies World Famous

Winter Park Publishing Company LLC

Wayne and Robin Roberts

Sally and Jack Schott

Jim and Valeria Shapiro

Winifred J. Sharp and Joel H. Sharp, Jr.

Chuck and Margery Pabst Steinmetz

Brandon Colte Suggs

Dr. Joe and Sue Warren

Leslie Warrington Bailey

Al and Brea Weiss

John & Lisa Westlake

Gail and Michael Winn

UNITED ARTS CENTRAL FLORIDA DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors (cont.

$10,000 - $24,999

Anonymous

Keith and Eleanor Ackermann

John W. and Linda Cone Allen

Margaret Atkins

Colonel Christian J. Becht and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Becht

Caroline Blydenburgh

Jill and Dean Bosco

Susan K. Bright and Lawrence W. Stevenson

Jody and Roslyn Burttram

Debbie and Larry Cappleman

Chicone Family Foundation

Steven P. Clawson

Hillary and Jay Cohen

Valerie and Paul Collins

Elizabeth Nerius Conklin

Judy Duda

Andrea T. Eliscu

Linda Ferrone

Freddi and Jim Goodrich

Grant E. Gribble

Denise Hall

Dr. Stephen F. Heller

The Henderson Family Foundation

Bea Hoelle-Hawes

Michael and Aimee Kakos

Cathy Karunaratne

Mary F. Kelsh

Skip Kirst & Eric Hogan

Fred and Judy Klipsch

Pat and Audrey Knipe

Rita Lowndes

Melody and Brendan Lynch

David and Eydie MacInnis

Jay and Traci Madara

Ken and Trisha Margeson

McIntyre and Skaggs

Charitable Trust

Jason & Ronni Mendelsohn in honor of Robert Lurie

Geoffrey C. Moehl

Jeff & Mindy Moore

Scott Moscrip

Jim and Mari Moye

William and Kyra Muntan

Laurie Nicoletti

Mark and Jennifer O’Mara

Deede Sharpe and John Parker

Jim and Alexis Pugh

Shyla G. Reich in memory of Steve Reich

John Daniel Ruffier

Rick Schell and Scott Joseph

Paula Shives

Ann and Charles Simpson

Bosco R. and Beverly J.

Slaughter

Diane and Robert Smedley

Andrew Snyder and Christopher Nemethy

Ellen and Simon Snyder

Stephen H. Goldman

Charitable Foundation

Philip & Sigrid Tiedtke

Larry Tobin

Tre

Kathryn C. Ustler

Hardy Vaughn and Betty Brady

Nancy R. Wagers

Lance & Patricia Walker

Jayne and John Willis

Nancy & Jonathan Wolf

Larry and Laura Zirbel

Zimmerman Foundation, Inc.

$7,500 - $9,999

Anonymous

Aunt Jeanie

Dykes and Lisa Simonton

Everett

Sue Ellen Franklin

Jane and Charlie Gibbons

Bruce Gould

Jacquelyn Hughes

Dr. Mitch and Swantje Levin

Blair and Diane Murphy

Paul Oppedisano

Mrs. Sarah Ravndal

Dr. Richard Sandler

Geanne and Adrian Share

Larry Slung

Neil and Malka Webman

Craig and Jeanne Weeks

$5,000 - $7,499

Anonymous

Lindsay and Dan Abt

Mr. and Mrs. P. Andy and Autumn

Ames, In Memory of John M. Tiedtke

Phil and Jennifer Anderson

George and Leslie Andreae

Ann & Bill Wallace Foundation

Jim and Elli Atchison - Atchison

Family Fund

Walter J. Bissett and Bernard Foong

Sally Blackmun and Michael Elsberry

Daniel Patrick Blumberg

Kirt and Cheryl Bocox

James F. Brown, MD

Cynthia Brumback

Bettina Buckley and Oscar Shearer

Drs. Lynn Le and Wei-Shen Chin

Bonnie and Van Church

Mrs. Claudia De Garay-Debler and Mr. Richard Debler

Francie and Wayne Dear

Susan M. DeNardis

Jim Dorman

Kristy Doyle Turner & Bob Turner

Bill and Jennifer Dymond

Janette Estep

Susan and Randolph Fields

Sarah B. Flynn

Barbara and Richard Fulton

Dr. Matt Gay

Marilyn S. Goldman

Kenneth and Marcia Goodwin

Mrs. Janice Granier Gruber

Larry Gutter and Debbie Meitin

Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Herzog

UNITED ARTS CENTRAL FLORIDA DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors

Donna and Bill Hoffman

Elizabeth and Justin Horn

Eric Horner and John Hamilton

Mimi Hwang

Dr. Diane M. Jacobs

Jeff and June Flowers Giving Fund

Kathy Johnson Berlinsky

Keith and Claudia Kasen

Henrietta Katzen

Sheryl Kerr

Embry J. Kidd and A. Noni Holmes-Kidd

Matthew and Laura Kleinsteuber

John P. Klumph

Andrea and Philip Kobrin

Harvey Kobrin and Faye David

Robert & Melissa Kohn

Diane N. Kuhl

Dr. Susan Cohn Lackman and Dr.Richard D. Knapp

William and Barbara Lynch

Jody and Craig Maughan

Dr. E. Ann McGee

Suzanne McGuire

Jamee & Gilbert Miller

Beth and Jack Nagle

Steve Nakagawa

Daniel and Dana O’Keefe

Rosemary O’Shea

Philip and Susan Sargent Family

Charitable Fund

Dr. Gloria Pickar

Christina and Gabriel Preisser

Chris Ranck

John and Monica Rivers

The Roper Family Foundation

Jeffrey and Lisa Rosen

Corrine K. Roy

Maria Ruiz-Hays

Steve and Melanie Ruta

Marco J. Santoro and Kimberly Dorsett

James and Martha Seneff

Dr. John V. Sinclair and Dr.

Gail D.

Sinclair

Martha Stonerock

Dr. Stephen Summers

Susan Forster Family Trust

Christopher and Maria Sutorik

George R. and Eleanor C. Taylor in memory of The Rev. Eric Ravndal, III

Alex Tiedtke

Joan and Harry Travis

Tamara L. Trimble

Leila Edgerton Trismen

Dr. and Mrs. Paul and Madeleine

Vilmos

Waggoner Foundation in memory of Robert Waggoner

Robert Wahl

Dr. Carolyn Walker Hopp

Louise and Richard Weiner

Barbara Weinreich

Bill and Alice Weir

Alan Whittaker

Connie Wightman and Rob Reedy

Shelburn and Rita Wilkes

William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family Foundation

Teresa Williams

Bob and Janet Ziomek

$2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous

2 People

Russell P. Allen

Andy and Phyllis Ayoob Fund

Susan and Gordon Arkin

Tony and Sharon Arroyo

Marci Babione

David B. Baer

Beth Barnes and John Crocitto

Joe and Carol Bert

Carol-Lynn and Frank Bevc

John and Diane Bishop

Carolyn Blice

Albert and Cheryl Bogdanowitsch

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory N.

Boger

Sara R. Brady

Pam Brandon

Sherry Bremer

Rafael A. Castillo

Lisa and Raul Ceide

Linda W. Chapin

O’Ann and Pat Christiansen

Jennifer Clark Evins

Dottie Clendenin

Michael and Jennifer Coleman

Cheryl and Tom Collins

Ted and Carol Conner

Mark and Laura Cosgrove

Kathy K. Cressey

Dan Croom and Jill Robison

Croom

Susan M. Curran

Alan and Susan Davis

Drs. Ronald and Nancy Davis

David Duncan

Patsy L. Duphorne

Michael Dwulit

Dana and Diana Eagles

Ted B. Edwards

George S. Fender in honor of American military forces

Steve Fessler and Randy Lord

Sam Flax

Clive Frazier

Rachel and Rob Gebaide

Kathryn and Bud Grammer

Steven W. Grant and Janice

Paperny

Barbara Grodin

Dr. and Mrs. H.E. Gross

Larry and Debbie Halye

Roseann Harrington

Dave and Nancy Harvey

Jim Helsinger and Suzanne O’Donnell

Larry Henrichs

UNITED ARTS CENTRAL FLORIDA DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors (cont.)

Ann Hicks Murrah

Rob & Michael Highfill-Spradlin

The House Family

Dr. Mimi Hull

Beth and Jack Isler

Toni Jennings

Patricia A. Johnson

Bette Jore

Frank and Etta Jean Juge

Eliza and Matt Juliano

Jennifer Lowndes and Tim Boeth

James R. Lussier and Nancy C. Jacobson

John and Pamela Lyle

James and Sarah Martin

David R. Mattson

Deborah L. Mead

Albert and Maija M. Michejda

Dr. Alfonso Migliara Jr.

Andrea and Van-Tam Nguyen

Jenise Osani

Michelle and David Peck

David Percival

Dw Phineas Perkins

Dr. Daniel and Lesley Podberesky

Richard C. Riccardi

John and Virginia Rigsby

Nicholas Riippa & Dominic Del Brocco

Patricia Rixmann

Lesley and Barry Rubin

Ann Saurman

Eileen Schein

Sara and Bill Segal

Mr. Jamel Shabazz

Bill and Dottie Silverman

Mr. and Mrs. William Slot

Paula Stuart

Carol Studer

Jackie and Rod Sward

Rebecca and Blaine Sweatt

Winston Taitt

Leslie J. Temmen

Cynthia Tomlinson

Alvin Urena

Stacia L. Wake and Karl Schuberth

Harold and Libby Ward

Dr. Peter Wearden

Peter and Frances Weldon

George and Cynthia White

Michael & Diane White

Ed Wimp

Lori Pearson Wise and Daniel Wise

$1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous

R. Scott Abrahams

Millicent Adams and Michael Anthony

Jeanne Bray Ailes

Joseph Ales, Jr. and Stephanie Curry Ales

Kay Allen

Edwin L. Anderson

Anonymous in memory of Clifford and Marilyn Lee

Melinda B. Antalek

Tim and Sue Antonition

James Armstrong

Ellen Arnold

Maria-Elena Augustin

Kai Bailey

Tom and Lara Baker

James and Deborah Balaschak

David F. Baldree and Derek Carter

Nathan and Lynda Balint

Richard and Nancy Banks

Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Barr

Cathy and Carlos Barrios

Jody and Nicole Barry

Andrea and Dick Batchelor

Deborah and Edward Beidel

Bradford and Jennifer Benn

Jane Berg

Jay H. Berlinsky

Daniel Betancourt

Paul and Collette Beuther

Amogh Bhonde and Sukhada Gokhale

Jacques D. Blais

Ann & Derek Blakeslee

Darryl and Mary Bloodworth

Lauren and Barry Bloom

Theresa and Angelo Boer

Bill Booth

Donna Borko

John D. Boulden

Carolyn E. Bourne

Jacqueline Bozzuto

Berl and Katherine Brechner

Alana and Matt Brenner

Breck and Lauren Brewer

Howard Britt

Maureen and Chris Brockman

Lyman and Janice Brodie

Marian and Edward Bromberg

Lawrence D. Brown, M.D.

Randy Brown

Christine and Hans Bucheli

Jeff Buhler

Eva Burbank Murphy

Stephanie Burk

Michael and Mabel Burridge

Carlos and Tracy Carrasco

Alexander and Melinda Cartwright

Michael and Linda Cegelis

Diana and Fred Chambers

Frank and Ellie Chase

J. Gene Chen and C. Skye Chen

Jason Chepenik

Rachel Chipman Allen

Angela Cohen

Dr. Jeff Cohen and Luci Belnick

Kelly Cohen

Dr. Anthony and Joan Colandrea, Jr.

Beryl R. Colbourn

Heather Jean Frances Comer

Brian Comes

Tracey Conner

Robert and Athalia Cope

David S. and Carol A. Cowan

UNITED ARTS CENTRAL FLORIDA DONORS

Individual and Family Foundation Donors (cont.

Dr. Jill and Marc Craddock

Mary Cravatta

Terry and Paul Creighton

Lisa Cuatt

Cherie and Bill Dacko

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OUR HISTORY

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park was founded in 1935 at Rollins College to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birth by presenting the composer’s orchestral and choral music to the public for its “enlightenment, education, pleasure, and enjoyment.” The Society decided early on to operate in partnership with Rollins College while still maintaining its status as a fully independent non-profit organization.

Mrs. Isabelle Sprague-Smith, a former New York artist and school principal, was the president and driving force behind the Bach Festival Society from 1935 until her death in 1950. At Mrs. Sprague-Smith’s death, the future of the Bach Festival Society was uncertain. Rollins President Hugh McKean asked John M. Tiedtke, the treasurer of Rollins College, a music lover and an astute businessman, to fill the opening and he agreed. Mr. Tiedtke served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees until his death in December 2004. Under his leadership, the Bach Festival Society expanded its programming to include two additional choral programs beyond the Annual Festival, top-tier visiting soloists and ensembles, and community events in Winter Park.

Following Mr. Tiedtke’s death, the Society began a period of modernization and growth. Today, the Society maintains an all-volunteer choir of over 185 singers from throughout Central Florida and a professional orchestra of nearly 50 members. We present nearly 30 ticketed performances, dozens of in-school educational programs, a high school choral festival, and several community concerts; we produce recordings, present the Young at Heart Chorale, and form high-level artistic partnerships reaching approximately 50,000 people annually.

The Bach Festival Society is the third-oldest continuously operating Bach Festival in the United States and Central Florida’s longest-running performing arts organization. We maintain a strong partnership with Rollins College and provide high-quality performance and learning opportunities to students, faculty, and staff.

Photos: Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Archives

John V. Sinclair, John M. Tiedtke, Chip Weston

Ward Woodbury leads an early Bach Festival concert

Bach Festival Choir 1937

Bach Festival Society Archive

ABOUT BACH

MUSIC-MAKING INITIATIVES

The renowned Bach Festival Choir is comprised of auditioned singers, enjoying weekly rehearsals and specializing in singing choral masterworks in partnership with the Bach Festival Orchestra.

The Young at Heart Chorale is a volunteer singing group for those 55+ years young. The group has weekly rehearsals and performs outreach concerts at local community centers.

The Bach Festival Youth Choirs have made their highly anticipated return this fall. Young musicians will refine their musicianship skills through weekly rehearsals and will be featured in performances with the Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra.

EDUCATION

The Bach Festival Society's Fresh StARTs program places professional musicians in elementary and secondary schools to present unique musical learning experiences. The newly formed Bach Vocal Artists offer educational outreach through open rehearsals, and in-school visits.

The world-renowned muscians featured in the Bach Festival Society's Visitng Artists Series often present master classes to students and patrons. These classes offer a unique perspective on the process of creating musical excellence.

Our popular High School Honors Choral Festival provides valuable workshop/clinic feedback from collegiate choral directors recruited from across the country. This fesitval helps prepare high school choirs for their annual Music Performance Assessments.

Bach Festival Society's newest Education program is the Choir of Distinction. Each year Central Florida choirs are invited to compete in a multi-phased audition process and adjudicated on tone, preparation and effect. The Lake Nona Singers from Lake Nona High School are the first recipient of the Choir of Distinction title. They will enjoy choral mentorship, invitations to Bach Festival Choir rehearsals and the opportunity to perform with the Bach Festival Orchestra.

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International Recognition | Rigorous Rehearsals Challenging Repertoire

Since 1935, the Bach Festival Choir has been recognized by audiences and critics alike for its exceptional musicianship, national and international collaborations, and musical versatility within the classical genre. A cornerstone of the classical music tradition in the United States, the Winter Park Bach Choir is the longest-continuously performing chorus in Central Florida and the third longest-running Bach Choir in the country.

Photo credit: Scott Cook

2023-2024

Insights & Sounds: Haydn’s Music of Vienna

McCartney’s Ecce cor meum

Eroica Trio

Insights & Sounds: Handel’s Roman Vespers

A Voctave Christmas

A Classic Christmas

Thursday, October 5, 2023•7:30 pm

Sunday, October 15, 2023•3:00 pm

Sunday, October 29, 2023•3:00 pm

Thursday, November 2, 2023•7:30 pm

Sunday, November 26, 2023•8:00 pm

Saturday, December 9, 2023•2 pm & 5 pm

Sunday, December 10, 2023•2 pm & 5 pm

89th Annual Bach Festival

Adam Brakel, organ

Fuoco Obbligato

Bach Vocal Artists: The Splendor of Baroque Magnificats

Spiritual Spaces: Music to Reflect and Restore

Moravec & Campbell: Sanctuary Road

Concertos by Candlelight

Brahms’ Piano Concerto #1, Spohr’s Concertante for Two Violins

J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in D Major, G.F. Handel’s Countertenor Arias

Insights & Sounds: Literary Folk Songs and Fairy Tales

Rossini’s Stabat Mater

Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc

tenThing Brass Ensemble

Dvorak’s Stabat Mater

Bach Vocal Artists: Songs for the Soul

Friday, February 2, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 3, 2024 • 3:00 pm

Friday, February 9, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 10, 2024 • 5:00 pm

Saturday, February 17, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Sunday, February 18, 2024 • 3:00 pm

Saturday, February 24, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Sunday, February 25, 2024 • 3:00 pm

Thursday, February 29, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 3, 2024 • 3:00 pm

Friday, March 15, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 16, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 17, 2024 • 3:00 pm

Saturday, April 27, 2024 • 7:30 pm

Sunday, April 28, 2024 • 3:00 pm

Thursday, May 16, 2024 • 7:30 pm