{"id":14164,"date":"2016-07-11T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=14164"},"modified":"2016-07-13T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:27:20","slug":"oregon-bach-festival-2016-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/11\/oregon-bach-festival-2016-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"oregon bach festival 2016 wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sir James MacMillan <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jeffrey <\/a>
Jeffrey Kahane <\/div> <\/div>
\"Gabriel <\/a>
Gabriel Kahane <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Matthew <\/a>
Matthew Halls <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Wow. What a festival this 2016 edition of the Oregon Bach Festival was! Playing OBF has always had its special moments over the years. Since playing my first OBF in the summer of 1996, I’ve seen so many fantastic singers and instrumentalists come through. Thomas Quasthoff, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, Nicholas Phan – the list goes on and on. The constant behind those big names?\u00a0The truly\u00a0world-class Berwick Chorus. Every year I go back thinking that last year’s chorus was the best there was and there would be no topping it, and every year I mentally eat crow. They keep getting better and better. It’s truly a testament to Kathy Saltzman Romey and her team (as well as the individual talents of the entire chorus) that the standard creeps higher and higher each year.<\/p>\n

There were so many high points to this year’s festival that it’s hard to list them all, but I’ll do my best to recall the moments that struck me the most during my time there.<\/p>\n