An Interpretation
J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor - "Kyrie"
(A Cropping)
My high school choir was an experience most of us won't forget. Our director was a bear. Not literally, because that would be something, but let's just say he had a "challenging" personality. We tiptoed around him. But, I find myself looking up to the sky and thanking Mr. Sexter these days. He pushed us to sing college level choral pieces. I remember singing some of Bach's difficult masterpieces in chamber choir. I think about him now, wondering what troubled him, but knowing that he found solace in some of the same music I am now interpreting as an artist. I want to say, thanks Mr. Sexter, for exposing us to such beauty and pushing us to master it and share it with an audience.
I started a new project a few weeks ago collaborating with Matthew Olson and his Oratory Bach Ensemble to interpret Bach's Mass in B Minor. I will be painting four interpretations which will accompany Matt's first annual Bach Roots Music Festival taking place in Minneapolis June 16-24 with concerts on June 21 at Summit Center for the Arts in St. Paul and June 22 at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in So. Mpls.
This is a cropping from the first painting interpreting the beginning Kyries. Kyrie Eleison "Lord, have mercy" and Kyrie Christe Eleison "Christ Have Mercy". I will be featuring a few croppings along the way as I work on these paintings and will show you the completed work when I get them scanned in early June. Listen to the opening of Bach's masterful work below.
I started a new project a few weeks ago collaborating with Matthew Olson and his Oratory Bach Ensemble to interpret Bach's Mass in B Minor. I will be painting four interpretations which will accompany Matt's first annual Bach Roots Music Festival taking place in Minneapolis June 16-24 with concerts on June 21 at Summit Center for the Arts in St. Paul and June 22 at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in So. Mpls.
This is a cropping from the first painting interpreting the beginning Kyries. Kyrie Eleison "Lord, have mercy" and Kyrie Christe Eleison "Christ Have Mercy". I will be featuring a few croppings along the way as I work on these paintings and will show you the completed work when I get them scanned in early June. Listen to the opening of Bach's masterful work below.