EROI Festival 2012
September 27 - 30
Eastman School of Music
“Bach and the Organ”
Peter Williams, keynote speaker
A joint presentation of the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative and the American Bach Society
Made possible with support from the Westfield Center and the American Bach Society.
This year’s festival, a collaboration between the American Bach Society, Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative, and the Westfield Center, will explore many aspects of Johann Sebastian Bach’s connection to the organ. The program includes exciting new scholarship by internationally recognized Bach scholars on topics ranging from the organ’s role in eighteenth century vocal instrumental music, manuscript studies, and the instrument in eighteenth century context and society, among others. Performances will feature solo organ works and cantatas by Bach and his circle on the Craighead-Saunders Organ and Hook & Hastings Organ Opus 1573 at Christ Church, the Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery, the Fritts Organ at Sacred Heart Cathedral, and the pedal clavichord. Join us for what promises to be a synergetic meeting of scholars, performers, and instrument builders.
Registration for the Conference is now FULL.
Registration is Closed.
Individual tickets to many public concerts are still available. Click here for more information.
Please consider joining us next year for a conference devoted to the legacy of Anton Heiller, September 26 - 29, and the Westfield Center Organ Competition and Academy.
Details coming soon.
- Schedule
- Registration
- Venues & Transportation
- Hotel Information & Registration
- 2012 Sponsors
- Public Concerts & Events
PROGRAM
Program and venues subject to change. Visit this webpage for updates.
Thursday, September 27
1:30-5:00 p.m. Cominsky Promenade, Eastman School of Music
Registration
2:30-4:30 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music
Music History Master Class with papers by Eastman Students.
Daniel R. Melamed, respondent
5:00 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall
Welcome Douglas Lowry, Joan and Martin Messinger, Dean, Eastman School of Music
Panel Discussion of the new Bach Editions
David Schulenberg and George Stauffer
6:30 p.m. Rochester Club Ballroom
Light Dinner Reception
8:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Reconstruction of Mendelssohn’s Organ Concert in Leipzig, 1840
Hans Davidsson, David Higgs, and William Porter, organists.
[T] - call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $15, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
Friday, September 28
Hatch Hall, Eastman School of Music
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall
Keynote Address
Peter Williams: On Bach and the Organ
Peter Williams, Keynote Address: On Bach and the Organ
Paper Session I: The Eighteenth Century Organist
Andrew Talle (Johns Hopkins University): The Daily Life of a German Organist around 1750
Wm. A. Little (University of Virginia): The Students of Bach: The Curious Case of Matthias Sojka
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Rochester Club Ballroom
Lunch
1:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Bach Concert by Eastman Student Organists Adrian Foster, Thatcher Lyman, Amanda Mole, and Oliver Wolcott
[T] - Call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $15, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
2:30 - 5:30 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall
Paper Session II: The Organ in Eighteenth Century Germany
Lynn Edwards Butler (Vancouver, British Columbia): Bach’s Report on Johann Scheibe’s Organ for Leipzig’s St. Paul’s Church: A Reassessment
Peter Wollny (Bach-Archiv Leipzig): An Unknown Collection of Organ Dispositions from Bach’s Circle
Gregory Butler (University of British Columbia): The Trost Organ in Altenburg and Bach’s Clavierübung III as Manifestations of the Triunophilia of Duke Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha
Michael Maul (Bach-Archiv Leipzig): Johann Matthias Holzhey’s Fight for a New Instrument: Newly Discovered Documents about Organ Building, Playing, and Networking of Organists from Bach's Thuringia
6:00 p.m. - Meeting of the ABS Advisory Board (location TBA)
Dinner on your own
8:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Organ Recital by Jacques van Oortmerssen: Music of J. S. Bach
[T] - Call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $15, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
Saturday, September 29
7:45 a.m. - Meeting of the ABS Editorial Board (location TBA)
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall
Paper Session III: Chorales, Preludes, and Fugues
Robin Leaver (Yale University): What is the Significance of the Manuscript Choral-Buch Attributed to Bach in the Sibley Library?
Russell Stinson (Lyon College): Bach and the Varied Stollen
Ellen Exner (University of South Carolina): “Let by me and never recorded”: Lost Homilius Manuscript Found
David Schulenberg (Wagner College): Preludes and Fugues by Bach? Questions of Text, Genre, and Attribution in the Organ Works
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Rochester Club Ballroom
Lunch
1:00 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall
Clavichord Recital by Joel Speerstra: Bach at Home
This performance is SOLD OUT
2:30-5:30 p.m.
Paper Session IV
Organ and Harpsichord
Mary Oleskiewicz (University of Massachusetts, Boston): Keyboards, Bachs, and Berlin: Keyboard Instruments and Members of the Bach Family at the Court of Frederick “the Great”
Matthew Dirst (University of Houston): Continuo Practice in the Bach Passions
The Organist as "Concertist"
Christoph Wolff (Harvard University): Did J. S. Bach Write Organ Concertos? Apropos the Prehistory of the Cantata Movements with Obbligato Organ
Matthew Cron (Sudbury, MA): Representations of Heaven in the Obbligato Organ Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach
6:00 p.m. Christ Church - Program repeated at 8:30 p.m.
[Bach conference participants attend early performance]
Gala concert of festive vocal and instrumental music
Boston Early Music Chamber Ensemble with organists Edoardo Bellotti and William Porter, the Christ Church Schola Cantorum, and renowned vocal soloists: Cantatas by J. S. Bach and G. H. Stölzel.
[T] - Call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $25, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
8:00 p.m. Rochester Club Ballroom
Banquet for all participants
Address by Mary Greer, president, American Bach Society
Sunday, September 30
9:30 a.m. Rochester Club Ballroom
Breakfast and business meeting for ABS members
11:00 a.m. Christ Church
Christ Church Eucharist (Prelude begins at 10:50 a.m.)
Stephen Kennedy, director of music
Musicians include:
Geoffrey Burgess, baroque oboe
David Higgs and William Porter, organists
Christ Church Consort and Choir
Chelsea Barton, organ scholar
Lunch on your own
1:00 p.m. Bus departs from Eastman School for Sacred Heart Cathedral
2:00 p.m. Sacred Heart Cathedral
Organ Recital by Robert Bates-
J.S. Bach: Clavierübung III
4:00 p.m. Bus departs for Memorial Art Gallery
5:30 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery -
Fountain Court
Recital on the Italian Baroque Organ by Edoardo Bellotti: Bach and the Italian Influence
This performance is SOLD OUT
6:30 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery - Pavilion
Light dinner reception
8:15 p.m. Bus departs for Christ Church
8:50 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Organ prelude to Compline
9:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Compline sung by the Christ Church Schola Cantorum, Stephen Kennedy, director of music
FREE
Monday, October 1
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Christ Church
Jacques van Oortmerssen masterclass for Eastman students
5:45 p.m. - 7:15 pm Time and Location TBA
Eastman Organ Department Colloquium (open to all)
Includes special presentation by John Brombaugh on the Niehoff/Dropa organ of Johanniskirche, Lüneburg
Public Concerts and Events
Tickets are available at the Eastman Theatre Box Office, 433 East Main Street, 585-454-2100.
Tuesday, October 2
6:00 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall Program repeated at 8:30 p.m.
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble, Paul O'Dette, director, William Porter, harpsichordist
(Tickets available through the Eastman Theater Box Office, [585-454-2100] or www.rpo.org.)
Registration Fees & Information
Click HERE to register online today. Or, click HERE to download the registration form. Early registration discounts are available through August 1, 2012. For inquiries, please contact Annie Laver, EROI Festival coordinator: alaver@esm.rochester.edu, 585-274-1564.
Fees (Include all events and meals listed for the entire festival.)
Before August 1, 2012
Regular: $250
Student: $150
One-day pass: $100
Sunday transportation pass: $15After August 1, 2012
Regular: $275
Student: $175
One-day pass: $100
Sunday transportation pass: $15
Festival Venues and Transportation Information
The main venues for the festival, Christ Church, Eastman School of Music, and Rochester Club Ballroom are located in adjacent city blocks, situated less than a half mile from the conference hotel. On Sunday afternoon, bus transportation will be offered for a small fee, as events will take place farther afield.
Public Concerts & Events
Thursday, September 27
8:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Reconstruction of Mendelssohn’s Organ Concert in Leipzig, 1840
Hans Davidsson, David Higgs, and William Porter, organists.
[T] - call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $15, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
Friday, September 28
1:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Bach Concert by Eastman Student Organists Adrian Foster, Thatcher Lyman, Amanda Mole, and Oliver Wolcott
[T] - Call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $15, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
8:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Organ Recital by Jacques van Oortmerssen: Music of J. S. Bach
[T] - Call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $15, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
Saturday, September 29
1:00 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall
Clavichord Recital by Joel Speerstra: Bach at Home
This performance is SOLD OUT
6:00 p.m. Christ Church - Program repeated at 8:30 p.m.
[Bach conference participants attend early performance]
Gala concert of festive vocal and instrumental music
Boston Early Music Chamber Ensemble with organists Edoardo Bellotti and William Porter, the Christ Church Schola Cantorum, and renowned vocal soloists: Cantatas by J. S. Bach and G. H. Stölzel.
[T] - Call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $25, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
8:30 p.m. Christ Church
Gala concert of festive vocal and instrumental music
Boston Early Music Chamber Ensemble with organists Edoardo Bellotti and William Porter, the Christ Church Schola Cantorum, and renowned vocal soloists: Cantatas by J. S. Bach and G. H. Stölzel.
[T] - Call Eastman Theatre Box Office
Tickets $25, discounts available with University of Rochester ID
Sunday, September 30
2:00 p.m. Sacred Heart Cathedral
Organ Recital by Robert Bates-
J.S. Bach: Clavierübung III
4:00 p.m. Bus departs for Memorial Art Gallery
5:30 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery -
Fountain Court
Recital on the Italian Baroque Organ by Edoardo Bellotti: Bach and the Italian Influence
This performance is SOLD OUT
9:00 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave.
Compline sung by the Christ Church Schola Cantorum, Stephen Kennedy, director of music
FREE
Monday, October 1
No public events
Tuesday, October 2
6:00 p.m. Hatch Recital Hall Program repeated at 8:30 p.m.
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble, Paul O'Dette, director, William Porter, harpsichordist
(Tickets available through the Eastman Theater Box Office, [585-454-2100] or www.rpo.org.)
Hotel Information
This year’s registration numbers have exceeded our expectations and as a result, our room block at the Hyatt Regency is now full.
A large block of overflow rooms has been reserved for conference participants at the Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside (located one block from the Hyatt at 120 Main Street). These are being held until Sunday, September 9. Call 585-546-6400 or 800-333-3333 to reserve your room today. Be sure to mention “EROI” to get the discounted conference rate. A link for online reservations is coming soon.
Hotel contact information:
Hyatt Regency Rochester
125 East Main Street, Rochester, NY 14604
585-546-1234
Click HERE for Hyatt’s weblink
Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside
120 East Main Street, Rochester, NY 14604
Front desk: 585-546-6400
www.radisson.com/rochesterny_riverside
Both hotels offer complimentary airport shuttle service. Please make arrangements with the front desk to use this service.
American Bach Society • Westfield Center •
Christ Church • Memorial Art Gallery • Sacred Heart Cathedral • Third Presbyterian Church • Rochester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists • Encore Music Creations
About EROI
When the Eastman School of Music opened its doors in 1921, it housed the largest and most lavish organ collection in the nation, opulent facilities, and a stellar faculty, creating an expansive vision for organ art and education, and one of the most distinguished organ programs in the world. In keeping with this tradition of excellence, we have embarked the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI), a collection of new and historic organs of diverse styles and traditions unparalleled in North America. EROI’s initial phase has produced the installations of two historic instruments: an Italian Baroque organ in the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery, and the Craighead-Saunders Organ in Christ Church. Future goals are the renovation of the Eastman School’s historic E.M. Skinner organ, and the restoration and replacement of the School’s 14 practice organs, will complete the initial phase of this 10-year plan.
About the American Bach Society
The American Bach Society was founded in 1972 to support the study, performance, and appreciation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the United States and Canada. The ABS produces Bach Notes and Bach Perspectives, sponsors a biennial meeting and conference, and offers grants and prizes for research on Bach.
For more information about the Society, please visit www.americanbachsociety.org.
About the Westfield Center
The Westfield Center is a landmark organization with a mission of promoting dialog among keyboard performers, scholars, and instrument makers. It is an advocate on behalf of the organ, harpsichord, fortepiano, and clavichord; a publisher of keyboard-related materials; a presenter of workshops, symposia, concerts, and tours; and a national organization with an international reach. For more information: www.westfield.org.