Bard Music Festival
Program Six • The Spiritual Quest
August 14–15
Bard Music Festival
August 14–15
Featuring James Bagwell, the Bard Festival Chorale, and the renovated organ of the Rhinebeck Episcopal Church of the Messiah, this program intersperses organ solos with masterworks of the Czech choral tradition.
Two late Martinů works—Vigilie, his sole composition for organ, and The Mount of Three Lights, which sets texts from Czech folk song, contemporary travel-writing, and the New Testament—will be heard alongside the opening movements of Dvořák’s Mass in D, in which old church modes meet modern harmonies; the finale from Musica dominicalis, an organ symphony by the late Czech composer Petr Eben; three works for male voices by Leoš Janáček; and an organ solo from the same composer’s Glagolitic Mass, long recognized as a celebration of Slavic culture.
The beautiful Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck, NY, has limited capacity, so to best accommodate patrons, we will offer Program Six on both Thursday, August 14 at 7 pm as well as Friday, August 15 at 3 pm.
Performance: Renée Anne Louprette, organ; Bard Festival Chorale, conducted by James Bagwell, choral director
Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
Vigilie, H382 (1959)
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
Veni Sancte Spiritus (1903)
Ave Maria (1904)
Constitues eos principes (1903)
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
From Mass in D, Op. 86 (1887): Kyrie and Gloria
Petr Eben (1929–2007)
From Musica dominicalis (Sunday Music) (1958): Finale
Bohuslav Martinů
The Mount of Three Lights, H349 (1954)
Leoš Janáček
From Glagolitic Mass (1926): Postludium
Organ
Director and Conductor, Bard Festival Chorale
The organ at the Church of the Messiah was installed in 1923 by the celebrated E.M. Skinner Company of Boston. The company, which had a reputation for creating instruments of superb quality and great tonal beauty, built organs for prominent churches and universities, including both the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and St. Thomas Church in New York. A gift to the parish by Captain Vincent Astor, the organ has just returned to the church following a major reconditioning by Quimby Pipe Organs of Warrensburg, Missouri.
Artwork: František Kupka, Study, 1913.
Nearby villages and towns in the Hudson Valley boast a large selection of restaurants, as well as a variety of hotels, motels, inns, and bed & breakfasts.
Eat & StayChurch of the Messiah
6436 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
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