MARLBORO-Juno Orchestra presents "Bach!,"a program that includes one of the composer's best-known works, as well as selections from his son and other composers.
Now in its second season as a BMC program, Juno, the region's hometown chamber orchestra, "charts new territory while amplifying long-time musical influences and bringing together some of the area's finest classical players," event organizers report in a news release.
The concert is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 13, at 2:30 p.m. at Persons Auditorium in Marlboro.
The program features Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for two violins, a work familiar to many audiences. According to Juno Music Director Zon Eastes, the concerto is among six Bach wrote as a young man while employed by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen. Bach had not yet begun his cycles of sacred cantata and passions, but over the next six years, he produced the Brandenburg Concertos as well as the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier and the four Orchestral Suites.
Featured performers are violinists Kathy Andrew and Ryan Shannon; and, Eastes explains, "working with them is one of my chief musical pleasures. Each is a remarkable, willing artist. So very generous in spirit."
Also on the program is Sinfonia in A major, WQ 182, No. 4, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, one of J.S. Bach's four musical sons and godson of Georg Philipp Telemann. As music director for the city of Hamburg, the younger Bach composed six string symphonies. Unpublished during his lifetime, these works "reveal Bach's compositional mastery as well as his expressive and quirky character," state organizers.
Juno Orchestra also presents three arias by George Frideric Handel, "each a gem," says Eastes. "The arias come from across Handel's chronology: one from an early Italian opera and two from later oratorios first presented in London."
Performing these works will be soprano Junko Watanabe. "It is a great pleasure to work with Junko," says Eastes. "Her crystalline, disciplined voice is perfect for Handel."
Rounding out the afternoon's offerings is Telemann's Burlesque de Quixote, TWV 55: G10, "a work full of character and humor that paints a completely winning picture of the daily life of one of literature's earliest heroes, Don Quixote," says Eastes.
Bach! Circle tickets are $50. General admission is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Tickets are available via bmcvt.org, 802-257-4523, and [email protected]. A limited number of reduced-price tickets are available; call for information.
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