Grand Valley State University will host Bach-Around-the-Clock, a 12-hour marathon devoted to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, on Tuesday, April 12, as part of the 5th Biennial Grand Rapids Bach Festival. The Grand Valley events feature Michigan performers and hundreds of student and faculty performances from six area colleges and universities: Aquinas College, Calvin College, Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Valley State University, and Hope College
University performances will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A special prelude concert at 7:30 p.m. features Grand Valley Carillonneur Professor Julianne Vanden Wyngaard. At 8 p.m. Dr. Karl Hochreither, a noted Bach authority from Germany, will conduct the gala concert featuring the Grand Valley Chamber Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys, and soloists performing Bach's Cantata 147. Also performing in the evening concert will be Grand Valley Professor Pablo Mahave-Veglia, Baroque cello, and guest artist Linda Melsted, violin.
All concerts are free open to the public, and held in the Cook-DeWitt Center on Grand Valley's Allendale Campus. Following is a brief schedule of participants. For more information call (616) 331-3678 or (616) 331-3484.
10:05 a.m. Grand Rapids Community College
11:05 a.m. Calvin
College
12:05 p.m. Grand Valley State University
1:05 p.m.
Aquinas College
2:05 p.m. Cornerstone University
3:05 p.m.
Hope College
4:05 p.m. Break
7:30 p.m. Cook Carillon
Concert
8 p.m. Evening Concert featuring the Grand Valley State
University Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Karl Hochreither, and
special guests.
