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Oregon Bach Festival

June 21, 2012
A Perfectly English Homage to Bach — and a Slap in the Face of the Nazis

Somehow the world didn’t quite understand the Nazis in mid-1938. 

Then Herschel Grynszpan, a teenage German-born Polish Jew living in Paris, found out his family had been among 12,000 German/Polish Jews arrested, stripped of their property and citizenship, then deported from Hanover for locations unknown in Poland. Grynszpan was young; he was angry and he wanted revenge. 

June 21, 2012
OBF2012 Oregon Bach Festival schedule & highlights!

Wednesday 6/27

“Light the Torch” opening gala fundraiser, 6pm, Valley River Inn; 

Live broadcast: Tango Harmonica, 6:30pm, 89.7 FM, KLCC 

 

Friday 6/29

Linda Hathaway Bunza plays music of Mendelssohn, 6:30pm, Hult Center

Opening ceremonies: PICCFEST Choirs, 6:45pm, Hult Center 

Joshua Bell plays Mendelssohn, 7:30pm, Hult Center, $15-$62

 

Saturday 6/30

On the House: PICCFEST Choirs, 1pm, Hult Center 

June 21, 2012
The Passion and The (Joe) Powers

Any Oregon Bach Festival audience member could list the instruments she expects to see on the stage at Silva or Soreng or Beall — strings, of course, and the piano, some brass, woodwinds, percussion, maybe a triangle, if we’re stretching things, or a xylophone or glockenspiel. But this year, one more instrument joins the ranks: the harmonica, wielded with consummate skill by a local boy who has made it through his devotion to tango.

June 21, 2012
The Vibrations in Your Bones

Storm Large may be a star, but she’s a Portland kind of star. She’s a rock/punk star singer with her band the Balls and a raunchy cabaret-style singer at regular clubs in P-town. Large became the darling of the theatrical world when she played Sally Bowles in Portland Center Stage’s 2007 Cabaret — a role Willamette Week’s Byron Beck called “the biggest gamble of her career.”