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.
Daniel Epstein returns in an all-Russian program of Rachmaninoff, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Prokofiev. Music director Michael F. Tietz conducts.
The Broadway Bach Ensemble acknowledges with gratitude the generosity of Steinway & Sons in providing the beautiful instrument for this afternoon’s performance.
Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 7:30pm, The Broadway Bach Ensemble presents a free concert of chamber music, featuring musicians from the orchestra.
At the Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114th and Broadway, New York City.
George Onslow
String Quintet in F minor, Op. 32
I. Largo-Allegro
III. Allegro impetuoso
Tom Frenkel, Violin
Yuxin Liu, Violin
Paula Washington, Viola
Mike Tietz, ‘Cello
Mark Helias, Bass
Antonín Dvořàk
Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 (“American”)
I. Allegro ma non troppo
David Rosen, Flute
Arlene Locola, Violin
Jeffrey Hertzberg, Viola
Lenny Mims, ‘Cello
Benjamin Britten
Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings
Eliot Friedman, Oboe
Nem Pejovic, Violin
Andrija Petrovic, Viola
Mike Tietz, ‘Cello
Intermission
Max Reger
String Trio No. 1 in A minor
I. Sostenuto – Allegro
Guy Kettelhack, Violin
Rebecca Osborn, Viola
Kurt Behnke, ‘Cello
Igor Stravinsky
Octet for Wind Instruments (1923, rev. 1952)
I. Sinfonia
II. Tema con Variazioni
III. Finale
Jennifer Forese, Flute
Paul Steinfeld, Clarinet
Kukiko Mitani, Bassoon I
Yuki Katayama, Bassoon II
Thomas McGee, Trumpet I
Brian C Metcalf, Trumpet II
Michael Ottaviano, Trombone I
Alex Somer, Trombone II
Mike Tietz, Conductor
Mostly French: Music of Lully, Rameau, Debussy and Dvorak. Clarinetist Eric Umble performs the Debussy Rhapsody. Michael F. Tietz conducts.
It’s a classical and neoclassical program featuring Mozart, Haydn, and Stravinsky (after Pergolesi, or maybe not). New York Philharmonic bassist Timothy Cobb performs a concerto by the Italian romantic Bottesini. Michael F. Tietz conducts.
Violinist Yaegy Park returns to join the orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Music director Michael F. Tietz leads, in a program that includes the Carmen Suite No. 1 and Hindemith’s rousing “Symphonic Metamorphosis.”
Daniel Epstein returns to The Broadway Bach Ensemble in a performance of Brahms’ epic Second Piano Concerto. Music director and conductor Mike Tietz leads, along with music of Antonio Rosetti and a Concerto Grosso by Telemann. Soloists for the Telemann are:
Tom McGee, Dan Caplivski and Brian Metcalf, trumpets;
Eliot Friedman and Jane Deckoff, oboes;
Ed Gonzales, timpani.
Guest conductor and composer Victoria Bond returns with music from the stage and more. WQXR midday host Annie Bergen will narrate Bond’s work “Thinking Like A Mountain.”
The Composers Now Festival celebrates living composers, the diversity of their voices, and the significance of their musical contributions to our society. During the month of February, the Festival brings together myriad performances ranging in genre from jazz to indie, classical to post-classical, experimental to folk, and beyond. Composers will be in attendance at all events. Composers Now is a project partner of The Fund for the City of New York.
Music director Mike Tietz teams up with trumpet soloist Kevin Quill in music of Bach, Arutiunian and, in honor of Reformation Sunday, Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony.
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 →
This symphony was written in 1793 in Vienna in anticipation of Haydn's second trip to London. Read more →
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 →
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 →