Winter Concert 2024
Our winter program offers works by Price, Schubert and Brahms. Mike Tietz and Audrey Edelstein conduct with guest soloist Ashley Horne.
Autumn Concert 2023
Music director Michael Tietz conducts a concert of romantic music for Halloween! Berlioz, Wagner and Liszt. The guest soloist on Totentanz is Nico Giacalone.
Spring Concert 2023
William Frampton returns as soloist in Jennifer Higdon’s Grammy-winning “Viola Concerto.” Also on the program, the “Haffner” Symphony of Mozart, and Satie’s Gymnopedies.
Winter Concert 2023
Join us for a program of Mabel Daniels, Robert Schumann, and of course, J.S. Bach.
Autumn Concert 2022
Music of Haydn, Mahler, Nielsen, Delibes and Villa-Lobos. Vocalists Klaudia Morelowska and Emily Gehman join music director Mike Tietz in this program. The Aria from Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 is performed in memoriam cellist Kurt Behnke, long-time member of the orchestra and one of the early victims of the COVID pandemic.
2022 Chamber Music Concert
On Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 7:30pm, The Broadway Bach Ensemble presents a free concert of chamber music, featuring musicians from the orchestra.
In the sanctuary of the Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114th and Broadway, New York City. Audience members will be required to wear masks and show proof of Covid vaccination at the door.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Concert Program:
Franz Josef Haydn
Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in G major, H. XV:15
I. Allegro
David Rosen, Flute
Denise Kahn, Cello
Meg Rosen, Piano
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Fantasie-Stücke, Op. 5
II. Serenade
III. Humoresque
IV. Minuet and Trio
Ruth Cunningham, Violin 1
Paris Milane, Violin 2
Ruby Hogue, Viola
Leonard Mims, Cello
Gustav Holst
Terzetto for Flute, Oboe and Viola
I. Allegretto
II. Un poco vivace
Renée Oakford, Flute
Dorothy Darlington, Oboe
Mike Tietz, Viola
Robert Henderson
Variation movements for solo C trumpet (1967)
I. Theme – Moving and in a singing style
Brian Metcalf, Trumpet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 10 for winds in B-flat major, K. 361/370a “Gran Partita”
III. Adagio
Oboes: Slava Znatchenii, Kathy Halvorson
Clarinets: Tony Park, Deidre Bird
Basset Horns: Dorothy Duncan, David Gould
Bassoons: Dirk Wels, Yuki Higashi
French Horns: Janet Lantz, Blair Hamrick
Double Bass: Leonard Birnbaum
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107 “Reformation”
III. Andante (Chamber Arrangement)
Conductor: Audrey Edelstein
Flute: Chrissy Fong
Bassoons: Dirk Wels, Yuki Higashi
French Horns: Janet Lantz, Blair Hamrick
Violin 1: EunMoo Heo (concertmistress), Changho Lim, Ju Jin-Bornet, Rita Wang
Violin 2: Amy Selig, Tina Clara Lee, Hanako Miyajima, Saki Uetsuhara
Violas: Mitzuru Kubo, Alexandra Honigsberg, Dahm Huh
‘Cellos: Jane Lee, Meixu Lu
Double Bass: Leonard Birnbaum
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings in E Major
V. Allegro vivace
Conductor: Audrey Edelstein
Violin 1: EunMoo Heo (concertmistress), Changho Lim, Ju Jin-Bornet, Rita Wang
Violin 2: Amy Selig, Tina Clara Lee, Hanako Miyajima, Saki Uetsuhara
Violas: Mitzuru Kubo, Alexandra Honigsberg, Dahm Huh
‘Cellos: Jane Lee, Meixu Lu
Double Bass: Leonard Birnbaum
Bernard Herrmann
Suite based on “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (arr. Mike Tietz)
Outer Space – Radar – Gort – Outer Space Reprise
Patty Kuhn, Violin
Julie Overland, Violin
Nancy Dunetz, Viola
Steve Flanders, ‘Cello
Edward Deptula, Piano
Mike Tietz, Theremin
Autumn 2021 Concert, 4pm Performance
Welcome back to The Broadway Bach Ensemble for our 2021-2022 season. We’re excited to be playing together again. Please join us, music director Michael F. Tietz, and harpist Kathryn Sloat in a socially distanced concert of music by Bach, Debussy, and Grieg.
There were two performances of this program, at 2pm and at 4pm.
Spring 2022 Concert
NY Philharmonic bassist Timothy Cobb returns to join the orchestra in a performance of Vanhal’s Concerto in E Major. Also on the program, the Sigurd Jorsalfal Suite by Grieg, and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
We require audience members to be masked and vaccinated; and all players to be vaccinated, boosted, and masked (except wind players while playing).
Winter 2022 Concert: Cancelled
We apologize, but this performance has been cancelled due to safety concerns over the pandemic. We hope to reschedule it for a future date.
Chamber Music Concert 2020
Our annual chamber music concert has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this spring.
Coming Soon
Lyric for Strings
Originally titled Lament, the Lyric for Strings was first composed as the second movement of Walker's String Quartet No. 1 in 1946 while he was a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read more →
Symphony No. 99
This symphony was written in 1793 in Vienna in anticipation of Haydn's second trip to London. Read more →
Overture to “The Wasps”
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was written for the Cambridge Greek Play production of Aristophanes' The Wasps at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was Vaughan Williams' first of only three forays into incidental music. Read more →
Double Bass Concerto
The composer dedicated the concerto to Natalie Ouchkoff, his fiancé, whom he married the year of the composition's premiere. The work's production came at a time of little repertoire for the double bass, which was often considered as an instrument only for ensembles. Read more →