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A Year-End Letter from MCB Artistic Director Murray Somerville
"Incandescent performances" … "resplendent rendition" – music to our ears at Music City Baroque! With these enthusiastic reviews of our fall concerts, MCB looks back on a splendid year of bringing Historically Informed Performance to Middle Tennessee, thanks to the inspired performances of our "early music virtuosos" and the generosity of you, our patrons, supporters and friends.
With performances of choral music (with sackbuts) at Belmont, chamber music at Blair and Fisk, and our annual Messiah sing-along downtown, we have brought a wide variety of baroque repertoire to a variety of locations in and around Music City. Our audiences continue to grow, and for the second year in a row we have won a "Best of Nashville" critic's pick from the Nashville Scene.
Now, as my tenure as Artistic Director draws to a close at the end of this season, we look forward to more wonderful musical challenges in the year ahead. In March we undertake our biggest project to date - a period-instrument performance of Bach's great B minor Mass, a work close to my heart since I first sang it under Karl Richter in Germany as a teenager. Using Christoph Wolff's superb new edition, we have assembled an ensemble of our own fine period players, a hand-picked chorus of our area's finest baroque singers led by Rebecca Davis and Mareike Sattler, and familiar visitors including Angela DeBoer on natural horn and natural trumpet superstar Brian Shaw. And there's more chamber music in February, and the next installment of the Fiddling Project in April.
Thus as 2011 draws to a close, we write to invite your continued support of the work of Music City Baroque. No donation is too small or too large; all contributions will be gratefully acknowledged in our printed programs (if you wish.) To make this as easy for you as possible, we have included a link below to make a secure online donation, or you may send a check to the listed address.
The Board and musicians of Music City Baroque are once again proud of our group's accomplishments this year, and grateful for the generous support of Nashville's musical community. Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help us continue to provide Middle Tennessee with the finest period performances possible in the remainder of this season and beyond.
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