MasterVoices | Ted Sperling, Conductor
Join us for an experiment in new approaches – firmly rooted in Bach’s unparalleled music – that looks at the underlying sentiment of those repeated-text passages. Kyrie/Lord, have mercy: what might that mean today? Who might be asking? Have mercy on whom?
Part developmental workshop, part master class, and part open rehearsal, this is your chance to get involved in an intimate, adventurous creative process. Much in the spirit of our multi-chapter MYTHS AND HYMNS, we’re looking to an array of writers and visual artists who will make the text bloom in ways that scan perfectly with Bach’s music. BACH REFRAMED also draws on our success with Bach’s ST. JOHN PASSION, for which we commissioned a new English translation, and pays tribute to our founder Robert Shaw, who believed that choral classics should speak directly to audiences in English and be communal experiences as they were originally intended. Learn More.
To honor the project’s spirit of adventure and open inquiry, tickets will be offered on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis beginning January 22, 2025.
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Artistic Director Ted Sperling has had a lifelong love affair with Bach. Especially this work, completed in the year before the composer’s death. Creating the right approach for MasterVoices should take extra time, thought, and care, which is why he has boldly called for an open creative process with presentations of excerpts for public and invited audiences. As part of those performances he will describe the creative process and ask the audience to provide feedback as the work develops into its final form.
Click here to read the press release for the 2024-2025 Concert Season.