Credits

Hal Hinkle, Tim Smith, Helmuth Rilling, John Evans; Beall Hall, July 2, 2010. Photo: Jon Christopher Meyers

The Oregon Bach Festival is deeply grateful to the Hinkle Charitable Foundation and Hal Hinkle for his vision and generous funding of the Digital Bach Project.

Project Partners
Hinkle Charitable Foundation | Northern Arizona University
Hãnssler Classic | University of Oregon | Oregon Bach Festival

Cuepoints

New media design and Flash
Tim Smith, Northern Arizona University

Audio: Mass in B Minor BWV 232
Sibylla Rubens, Juliane Banse, soprano; Ingeborg Danz, alto; James Taylor, tenor; Andreas Schmidt, Thomas Quasthoff, bass; Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart; Bach Collegium Stuttgart; Helmuth Rilling, conductor

B Minor Mass manuscript
Courtesy Suhrkamp/Insel

Photography of Anne Leahy’s copy of the 1924 facsimile edition
Yo Tomita

Book text
Johann Sebastian Bach’s B Minor Mass
by Helmuth Rilling
© Hanssler-Verlag 1986
Translated by Gordon Paine (2011)
Produced and translated by permission of publishers and author

Windows of Understanding in the St. Thomas School
John Butt, “Reception History” from:
Bach: Mass in B Minor, by John Butt
Copyright © 1991 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.

Uri Golomb, “Bach’s Four Missae”
David Gordon, “To Whom it May Concern: The Greatest Job Application Ever”
Hal Hinkle, “Why the Digital Bach Project”
Jan-Piet Knijff, “Performing Bach’s Mass in B Minor: Some Notes by Heinrich Schenker”
Robin A. Leaver, “A Masterpiece 36 Years in the Making”
Alfred Mann, “The Masses”
George Pratt, “Bach’s Mass in B Minor: An Introduction,” “Bach’s Compositional Method of Parody”
Markus Rathey, “The Greatest Artwork of All Times and All People,” The Yale Tangeman Lecture, 2003
Frank C. Senn, “Bach’s Mass in B Minor: an evangelical Catholic Testament”
Tim Smith, “The Mass in B Minor as a Musical Icon,” “On the St. Thomas Square in an Age of Doubt,” “Not Forgetting the Heavenly Vision”, “From Camelot to Bach, and Back”
Calvin Stapert, “The Mass in Context”

Video
Discovery Lectures and Rilling Master Class
Presented by the Oregon Bach Festival, a program of the University of Oregon
John Evans, executive producer
Helmuth Rilling, artistic director and conductor
Produced, directed, and edited by Pushplay Productions

Special Thanks
Matthias Lutzweiler, Hanssler Classic

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Rilling Discovery Lectures: The B Minor Mass

Executive Producer
John Evans

Producer
Meg Weber

Director
Jayson Bosteder

Musicians

Vocal soloists
Linh Kauffman, soprano; Laura Atkinson, Roxana Constantinescu, alto; James Taylor, tenor; David Kim, bass

Continuo and obbligato soloists
Rahel Rilling, concertmaster; Dávid Adorján, violoncello; Dave Williamson, contrabass; Lorna McGhee, flute; Allan Vogel, Amy Goeser Kolb, oboe; John Steinmetz, Steve Vacchi, bassoon; Guy Few, corno da caccia; Boris Kleiner, Paul Klemme, organ

Berwick Chorus of the Oregon Bach Festival
Soprano
Kathryn Aaron, Amy Adams, Leann Conley, Melinda Enns, Marni Enns, Christina Fairweather, Sara Guttenberg, Therees Hibbard, Linh Kauffman, Zerrin Martin, Gitanjali Mathur, Kathryn Mueller, Jessica Rossi, Dara Scholz, Sonja Tengblad

Alto
Laura Atkinson, Cecilia Duarte, Elise Eskew Sparks, Lexa Ferrill, Yonah Gershator, Tracey Gregg-Boothby, Susan Hale, Solveig Holmquist, Janene Kirkpatrick, Emily Marvosh, Barbara Prince, Debra Scroggins, Angela Smucker, Helen Van Wyck

Tenor
Michael Boswell, Daniel Buchanan, Dann Coakwell, Peter Hopkins, Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, David Kurtenbach, Nathan Leaf, Vladimir Maric, Wilson Nichols, Jean-Pierre Ouellet, David Scholz, Timothy Westerhaus

Bass
Ross Bernhardt, Aaron Cain, Matthew Carey, Thomas Foreman, Matthew Hoch, Scott Jarrett, David Kim, Paul Klemme, Will Nichols, Jason Steigerwalt, Jonathan Ten Brink, Paul Tipton, Gil Zilkha

Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy of the Oregon Bach Festival

Soprano
Irina Alexeyuk, Caroline Bolster, Gabriella Cavalcanti, Hannah Consenz, Clare Demer, Amelia Farber, Mikaela Jaquette, Taylor Johnson, Younghee Kim, Nikki Knight, Diana Koba, Serena Liu, Kate Massinger, Brianna Newsome, Audrey Overby, Taylor Pulsipher, Maddy Ross, Ariel Ruben, Lauren Searls, Breanna Sensmeier, Ashley Stig, Caitlin Stone, Courtney Welch

Alto
Cate Adams, Katrina Allen, Keegan Brown, Lindsay Caldwell, Eva Carlson, Anna Costello, April Dimmick, Galina Edinarkhova, Amy Gallegos, Stephanie Gates, Georgia Hellum-Willits, Caitlin Hennessy, Taylor Iverson, Ronika McClain, Ellie Mears, Alexis Myles, Heather O’Donnell, Rachel Okpisz, Savannah Simpson, Ellen Thomas, Devin VanHine, Joslyn Vargas

Tenor
Evan Abeling, Ethan Alvarez, Mikey Barnes, Alec Chase, Jacob Cordie, Jason Curtis, Willy Dolan, Matthew Eller, Riley Forrest, Riley Fortier, John Hartman, C. J. Irving, Andrew Klingelhofer, Kyle Ludwig, Justin Murray, David Robinson, Eli Roth,

Bass
Jack Barton, Patrick Bryant, Joel Chapman, John-Isaac Cleveland, Noah Cotter, Cody Dircksen, Forrest Gamba, Erik Henry, Jens Knutsen, Avalon Ligman, Nate Matthews, William Overton, Gabe Petegorsky, Miles Provencher, Petr Samoylenko, Max Seifert, Duncan Tuomi, Nic Varela, Jake Wantland, Dane Zielinski, Alex Simon, Ben Taube, Danny Wesselink,

Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra

Violin I
Rahel Rilling, Concertmaster; Connie Kupka, Jennifer Munday, Stephen Redfield, Margaret Wooten

Violin II
Elizabeth Baker, Steve Scharf, Principals; Matthew Fuller, Elizabeth Hedman, Rachel Hurwitz, Holly Stern, Florence Titmus

Viola
Sara Rilling, Principal; Thomas Turner

Violoncello
Dávid Adorján, Principal; Joanna Blendulf; Dane Little

Contrabass
Dave Williamson

Flute
Lorna McGhee, Principal; Molly Barth, Janice Tipton

Oboe
Allan Vogel, Principal; Amy Goeser Kolb, Cheryl Wefler

Bassoon
John Steinmetz, Principal; Steve Vacchi

Trumpet
Guy Few, Principal; Brian McWhorter, Andrew Ulyate

Timpani
Mark Goodenberger

Organ
Boris Kleiner, Paul Klemme

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The Rilling Master Class

2010 Master Class in Conducting
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232

Executive Producer
John Evans

Producer
Meg Weber

Director
Jayson Bosteder

Featured conductors
Patrick Chiu, Kimberly Dunn Adams, Alejandro Julian Gómez-Guillén, Michael Slon

Vocal Soloists
Linh Kauffman, soprano; Roxana Constantinescu, Laura Atkinson, alto

Quintet Rehearsal Soloists
Sara Guttenburg, soprano; Cecilia Duarte, alto; Wilson Nichols, tenor

Continuo and obbligato soloists
Rahel Rilling, concertmaster; Dávid Adorján, violoncello; Dave Williamson, contrabass; Lorna McGhee, flute; Allan Vogel, oboe; Boris Kleiner, organ

Rehearsal Quintet
Rahel Rilling, violin I; Pilar Bradshaw, violin II; Sara Rilling, viola; Dávid Adorján, violoncello; Boris Kleiner, piano

Oregon Bach Festival 2010 Master Class in Conducting
Sergey Bogza, M. Lauren Buckley, Patrick Chiu, Kimberly Dunn Adams, Alejandro Julian Gómez-Guillén, Matilda Hofman, Ian Loeppky, Nathan Lofton, Dennis Malfatti, Michael Peters, Michael Slon, Jeffrey Stern

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Video Production

Oregon Bach Festival Artistic and Production Staff

President and Executive Director
John Evans

Artistic Director
Helmuth Rilling

Director of Artistic Administration
Michael Anderson

Artistic and Educational Operations Manager
Dave Goudy

Master Class Director
Thomas Davies

Master Class Associate Director
Timothy Sawyer

Chorus Master
Kathy Saltzman Romey

Assistant Chorus Master
Peter Hopkins

Stage Manager
Rick Blake

Pushplay Productions

Director
Jayson Bosteder

Producer
Meg Weber

Camera Operators
Robert Consentino, Curt McCain, Brad McCormick, Ethan Shiels, Jesse Tobler, Coty Werner

Location Sound
Phil Gerke, Randi Jacobs

Key Grip
Marshall Bradley

Grip
Mike Wilson

Craft Service
Natalie Bosteder

Editor
Pushplay Productions

Title Sequences
Curt McCain

Audio Mixing
McKenzie Stubbert
Pinball Jukebox
Matt Harmon

Special Thanks
University of Oregon School of Music and Dance
Dean Brad Foley
Assistant to the Dean, Janet Stewart

Filmed on location at Beall Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

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Digital Bach Project Website

For the Oregon Bach Festival
Project Producer
George Evano, Director of Communications

Website Development
Mike Lee

Graphic Design
Alex Wijnen

Special Thanks
J.D. Hauger, University of Oregon libraries

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