Bach at 325: The Boulder Bach Festival
Saturday, March 6, I attended the Second Festival Concert given by the Boulder Bach Festival. It was presented in Boulder at the First United Methodist Church on Spruce Street. This concert celebrated the 325th birthday of the amazing composer, J. S. Bach. The works on the program included a secular Cantata entitled “Give way now, dismal shadows,” which was written to celebrate a wedding; a sacred Cantata, “I have enough;” the motet, “The Spirit comes to help our weakness;” and the motet, “Jesus, my joy.”
The Boulder Bach Festival was founded in 1981 and rapidly became one of the leading performance groups in the state of Colorado. They have a reputation of having remarkable musicians within the organization, and also for having the ability to have remarkable musicians as their guest artists. I assure you, that I use the word remarkable because it fits. Timothy Krueger is the chorus director, Krista Bennion Feeney is the concertmaster and soloist, Barbara Barber and Anne Beer are the second violinists, Erika Eckert the violist, Carole Whitney plays cello, Paul Erhard the bassist, Joseph Robinson is the principal oboe, James Brody second oboe, Kim Brody the English horn, Linda Lunbeck and Michael Lightner recorder, and Mutsumi Moteki performs on harpsichord and organ. This is a formidable group of musicians who all have the superior credentials and experience to get the job done.
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Robin McNeil lives with his wife in Littleton where he teaches piano privately and continues to do research on the French composer Théodore Gouvy and the Medieval Mass. McNeil is an honorary member of the Institut Théodore Gouvy of Hombourg-Haut, France; president of the Piano Arts Association; and a member of the Henry Bradshaw Society (for the preservation and publication of rare liturgical documents).
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