Berkshire
Choral Festival E-Newsletter October 2006
Greetings from Sheffield!
Trudy and Frank came back from Austria with glowing reviews of
the concerts in both Salzburg and Mondsee.
Our 25th Anniversary season was a resounding success in all venues.
The most significant aspect of our celebration was through the
programming. Typically, BCF has to choose repertoire carefully
to ensure that the orchestra size is controlled over the season.
(Big works = big orchestras = big bucks.) Hence, we often program
a Baroque or Classical work, usually requiring a smaller orchestra.
Instead of the more temporal things such as fancy dinners or commemorative
mugs, for our twenty-fifth we wanted every single chorister attending
to experience a major work with a major conductor and major soloists – an
event that they would remember forever.
The leaves are turning here in the Berkshires, and the summer geraniums
are already a distant memory!
In fundraising news, with 8 weeks remaining in our fiscal year,
the Annual Fund is currently at $191,086, or 91% to goal. Many
thanks to our generous donors! To those who have not yet given
this year, remember that your support is vital to BCF, and we need
your help to reach the goal of $209,000. Donate today!
We would also like to announce an Organizational
Support grant award for $2,500 from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council. To quote their Executive Director, Mary Kelley, “(BCF) has been through
a rigorous panel review that concluded that your work is of high
quality and serves your community well.” We think you’ll
agree!
Want to keep BCF on your mind this month?
Visit your favorite faculty members in one of their upcoming
performances…
Jim Demler
Monday, October 23rd
Faculty Recital Series, Works by Duparc, Rorem, Brahms, and Britten
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Pam Dellal
Sunday, Oct. 8, 3 pm
The River of Love: Music of Druckman and Sawyer based on Shaker
Themes
New England Voices, Amherst, MA
Sunday, Oct. 29 - 3 pm
Boykan: Second Chances, Motet; Fine: Mutability
Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Barbara Peters
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 12:30 p.m.
Solo Recital: Broadway Showstoppers: with Jim Bumgardner, piano.
St. Paul’s Church, Augusta, Georgia
Selections from Flora, The
Red Menace, Colette Collage, 110 In The Shade, The New Moon, She
Loves Me and more.
Sunday, October 22, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.
Solo Recital: An Afternoon of Russian
Song, with Kevin Bartig,
piano.
Huggins Performance Center, Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC,
Tchaikovsky, Medtner, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov (in Russian, German
and French).
