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2020 Virtual Festival Videos

Baroque Café Reprise: The Four Seasons in Downeast Maine

Wednesday, July 22—Saturday, July 25
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti for Violin, op 8 Le quattro stagioni
with sonnet recitations by Noel Paul Stookey and magnificent images of Downeast Maine’s seasons by Dick Leighton.  Solo violinists are Spring: Lisa Rautenberg; Summer: Jude Ziliak; Autumn: YuEun Gemma Kim; and Winter: Anatole Wieck.  Recorded live at David’s Folly Farm on July 25, 2019
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A Musical Moment

Sunday, July 26
Blue Hill Bach trumpet virtuosi Josh Cohen and Perry Sutton along with timpanist Michelle Humphreys are featured in Johann Ernst Altenburg’s Concerto in C for Seven Trumpets.
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Baroque Strings Master Class

Monday, July 27 — 7:00 pm
Live via Zoom, a Baroque music and technique workshop, featuring violinists Jude Ziliak and Anatole Wieck. 
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Art & Plague: Europe in the Age of Bach and Before

Tuesday, July 28
An illustrated lecture by Sheila ffolliott, Professor Emerita of Art History at George Mason University, examining the ways in which the arts inform us about how past societies reacted to pandemics
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Into the Deep — Early Repertoire for Low Strings

Wednesday, July 29
Anne Trout, violone, and Sarah Freiberg, cello, present duos and remarks about music for low-range string instruments written between 1570 and 1820
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A Musical Moment – You Are Alone

Thursday, July 30
Blue Hill Bach violinist Jude Ziliak in a “play and talk” about the solo violin suites of the little-known 17th-century composer Johann Paul von Westhoff, a precursor to Bach, with a performance of Westhoff’s Suite #1 for solo violin in A minor
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A Look at The Beggar’s Opera

Friday, July 31
Lutenist and opera director Grant Herreid leads a virtual performance of excerpts from Gay & Pepusch’s 1728 ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera, with some of your favorite Blue Hill Bach singers in the roles of thieves, highwaymen, and prostitutes. Followed by a panel discussion with Grant Herreid, music historian Natasha Roule, theater director Lori Sitzabee, and Blue Hill Bach artistic director Stephen Hammer about the Everyman, Macheath, in both The Beggar’s Opera and Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera
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Festival Finale: the “Passion Chorale” in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

Saturday, August 1
Festival Music Director John Finney explores the origins and J.S. Bach’s use of “The Passion Chorale” — best known as “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” in the St. Matthew Passion — with musical examples by bass Ian Pomerantz and the virtual Blue Hill Bach chorus and orchestra
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2020 Virtual Festival Sponsors

Maurice Amado Foundation

Atlantic Boat Company

Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Blue Hill Co-op
Deer Isle Artists Association
Mainescape
M.E. Astbury &  Son

Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National
Endowment for the Arts

Merle B. Grindle Agency
New Surry Theatre
Parker Ridge
Tradewinds
Traditional Acupuncture




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