MASS IN B MINOR' FINALE FOR GROUP'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY CITY Edition
DAYTON - The Dayton Bach Society concludes its 25th anniversary season today with a performance of the work many consider to be Johann Sebastian Bach's most thrilling choral composition, his Mass in B Minor. The piece's dramatic qualities have even led some observers to liken it to a `sacr...
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| Published in | Dayton daily news (Dayton, Ohio. 1987) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Dayton, Ohio
Atlanta Journal Constitution, LLC
07.05.2000
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| Summary: | DAYTON - The Dayton Bach Society concludes its 25th anniversary season today with a performance of the work many consider to be Johann Sebastian Bach's most thrilling choral composition, his Mass in B Minor. The piece's dramatic qualities have even led some observers to liken it to a `sacred opera.' It's "unquestionably one of the greatest compositions ever written," according to Richard Benedum, the Dayton Bach Society's founder and artistic director. Benedum, who will conduct today's performance featuring an orchestra of Baroque stringed and wind instruments, writes in the concert program notes that Bach's Mass "occupies the loftiest plateau of musical masterpieces and human achievement, along with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Tristan und Isolde by Wagner, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Berg's Wozzeck, by virtue of its superb craftsmanship and musical inspiration, but even more, by the depths of its expressiveness." Completed near the end of Bach's life, the B-Minor Mass is truly his "crowning achievement in the field of vocal music." It took about 20 years to create, and some sections were written earlier in Bach's career. The "Sanctus," for example, was written for Christmas Day 1724, Benedum points out. |
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| ISSN: | 0897-0920 |