Saturday, April 5, 2014
Discussion about Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion" (round-table) - Andrews University Dept. of Music - April 6, 3 p.m.
Host is Andrews University (Seventh-Day Adventist related) of Berrien Spring, Michigan USA Department -- event is free and it precedes the April 18 and 19, 2014 performances at Howard Performing Arts Center also on Campus. The mid-afternoon event will take place in the Buller Hall Student Lounge; the classical piece tells the story of the suffering and death of Christ according to the Gospel of St. Matthew (New Testament). For further information call (269) - 605-3438. Also available is Concert details at howard.andrews.edu/ Both concerts on the Good Friday and Holy Saturday weekend are free and open to the public; ticket reservations are not required.
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from ANDREWS dot-edu -- Howard Performing Arts web posting:
The Department of Music presents a fully-staged performance of J.S. Bach’s masterpiece, The Passion According to Matthew. Blending amazing music, probing words sung in English, and a modern staging allows for a fresh and deeply spiritual encounter with this well-known story. Produced jointly by Charles Reid, Stephen Zork and Claudio Gonzales, this performance is directed by our coordinator of vocal studies, Charles Reid, conducted by our director of choral activities, Stephen Zork, and features an all student cast of soloists, the University Singers, and the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra.
Director Charles Reid remarks, “Out of the past twenty years of my international singing career, one of the genuine highlights was singing in the chorus in a Brooklyn Academy of Music production, led by acclaimed director, Jonathan Miller, of this very work. I simply cannot forget the profound impact it had on the audience and the performers. Peter Sellars, and others have also explored this approach, and it has always been a spark in the back of my mind that I hoped I could revisit someday. This is the day. I hope you will join us for this spectacular journey and come expecting to be impacted in an entirely new way.”
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