Portland Baroque Orchestra – Musical Offering Bach: Old vs. New

• Kathie Stewart, baroque flute

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Symphony (Sinfonia) in G major, H. 657, Wq. 182, No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach — The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Johann Christian Bach — Harpsichord Concerto in D major, Op. 1, No. 6
Johann Sebastian Bach — Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067

Legend relates that Johann Sebastian Bach exclaimed, "'Tis Prussian Blue! It fades easily!’ when describing the music of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. This was surely a teasing reference to the galant style, with its open musical textures and avoidance of "old-school’" counterpoint. Our program offsets the contrapuntal wizardry of Bach senior with this new style – and is especially topical for your new Artistic Director in featuring a set of variations on God Save the King by Johann Christian, the so-called "London Bach."

Runs Nov. 11-12.

About Portland Baroque Orchestra

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About Kathie Stewart, baroque flute

Kathie Stewart is the newly appointed Curator of Historical Keyboards and Visiting Academic Specialist in Historical Performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is a founding member and principal flutist of the Grammy Award winning Apollo's Fire: the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. A faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music, she is also a Kulas Visiting Artist at Case Western Reserve University, and former Curator of Harpsichords at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she taught baroque flute for nearly twenty years. She is an avid proponent of Celtic music, playing Irish and baroque flutes on several Apollo's Fire recordings. She has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, The Four Nations Ensemble, Oberlin Baroque Ensemble, ARTEK, and the Bach Sinfonia in Washington, D.C. She is also Assistant Director of the Seattle Baroque Flute Workshop.

https://music.indiana.edu/faculty/current/stewart-kathie.html