Performances

Publick Musick is currently planning performances for 2009. The Alfred Mann Music Festival, which we presented in 2007, is described below as an illustration of the scope and breadth of the projects of which this ensemble is capable.

The Alfred Mann Music Festival

The festival is best-described by the program booklet, available here as a download in PDF format (300 kB). An overview follows below.

On November 15 - 18, 2007, Publick Musick and the Eastman School of Music joined forces to celebrate the life and work of teacher, author, scholar and conductor Dr. Alfred Mann in Rochester, New York. Performances of Handel's Messiah and of Bach's Mass in B Minor were the centerpieces of the four-day event. Colleagues, family, and community members attended the concerts; many also enjoyed the guest lectures by Dr. Mann's close friends Eastman Professor Emerita Dr. Kerala Snyder and Professor of Musicology at Rutgers University, Dr. George Stauffer.

The schedule of events was as follows.

Thursday, November 15, 2007:

• Open Rehearsal of Messiah with Publick Musick

Friday, November 16, 2007:

• Tour of historic St. Michael's Church
• Pre-concert talk with Dr. William Weinert
• Performance of Messiah, Publick Musick, directed by Thomas Folan

Saturday, November 17, 2007:

• Alfred Mann as Translator, Kerala J. Snyder, Guest Lecturer
• The Credo of the B-Minor Mass and Bach's Choral Ideal, George B. Stauffer, Guest Lecturer

Sunday, November 18, 2007:

• Pre-concert talk with Dr. Thomas Folan
• Performance of Mass in B Minor, directed by William Weinert