Arts Activities Support
Bach's Saint John Passion and solo cantatas
Bach's Saint John Passion and solo cantatas
Funding for two concerts in their 2011/2012 season, one featuring a performance of BachÆs Saint John Passion and the other highlighting two of BachÆs rarely heard solo cantatas. Performances will take place at Saint MaryÆs Chapel on the campus of the Saint Paul Seminary and at Sundin Music Hall at Hamline University.
Scott Chamberlain: Musician and arts administrator, One Voice Mixed Chorus; Ellen Draeger: Musician and arts administrator, Lutheran Music Program; Jennifer Ilse: Co-artistic director, OffLeash Area dance and theater company; Alecia Leonard: Community education administrator and youth programming specialist; Mike Mason: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts staff; Dawn Ridgway: Dance performer and educator and arts administrator; Becky Ten Brink: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra staff.
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
ACHF Arts Access
To mount a performance of a large, major work of Bach; to deeply engage the audience in the music performed; to expand the audience of the Bach Society in both size and diversity.Audience feedback; board and staff feedback; musician evaluations; ticket sales, audience numbers, and earned income.
The performance facilitated expanded audiences for the Bach Society, and those diverse attendees were engrossed in the grand show.
Other, local or private