Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Courtesy BDDS
Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society artistic directors Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes.
The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Madison’s premier chamber music group, has invited close to 30 guest artists from near and far to play in their 2022 summer season, “Riches to Rags.” The artists will take on the Herculean task of performing an unusually wide range of repertoire from Mozart to ragtime. A new feature, the Incendiary Artist Spotlight, will give us an up close and personal look into the musical lives of guest artists who have performed with BDDS over the years. Performances take place June 10-12, 17-19 and 26 at Hamel Music Center, and June 25 at Stoughton Opera House. Find more schedule info below or, visit bachdancing.org; and read Sandy Tabachnick's season preview here.
media release: BDDS’s 31st season, RICHES TO RAGS, ranges from traditional riches of the chamber music repertoire—masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms—to great chamber music that has been systematically undervalued, including masterpieces by women composers (Nadia Boulanger, Rebecca Clarke), Latin composers (Manuel Ponce, Jose Pablo Moncayo, Roberto Peña), and Black composers (Shawn Okpebholo, Billy Childs, Undine Smith Moore). Our season culminates in a week of ragtime and early jazz, quintessentially American music that has its origins in Black communities at the turn of the 20th century.
After two summers of mostly virtual offerings, we are thrilled to reintroduce audiences to the transformational and emotional power of live chamber music performed in intimate spaces, this year in the new Hamel Music Center's Collins Recital Hall, part of the Mead Witter School of Music on the UW-Madison campus (and one concert, June 25, in the jewelbox Stoughton Opera House).
Save $6 on Series Tickets (3 different concerts minimum) Purchase by May 1: $46.50 prime reserved seats; $40.50 reserved seats Includes $3 per ticket Campus Arts Ticketing fee.
Single Ticket prices and/or after May 1: $52.50 prime reserved seats; $46.50 reserved seats Includes $3 per ticket Campus Arts Ticketing fee; student tickets: $10 with student ID.
Campus Arts Ticketing: Memorial Union 800 Langdon St Madison, WI 53706; boxoffice@union.wisc.edu 608-265-ARTS (608-265-2787)
For information or help: Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society crownover@
If you have a special seating requirement, please email boxoffice@union.wisc.edu. Stoughton Opera House seats are general admission.
Incendiary Artist Spotlight “Keeping Up with the Jones" | June 10 6:30 pm. Click here for additional event details. Featuring bass-baritone Timothy Jones singing spirituals and more.
Fortune Favors the Bold | June 11 7:30 pm. Click here for additional event details.
Ethyl Smith Sonata for violin and piano
Celsius Dougherty Sea Shanties for bass and piano
Roberto Peña Danzón for flute and piano
Manuel Ponce Estrellita for violin and piano
Johannes Brahms Trio in B Major for violin, cello and piano
Lemons to Lemonade | June 12 2:30 pm. Click here for additional event details.
Felix Mendelssohn Andante and Allegro for piano four-hands, op. 92
Kevin Puts, In At The Eye for bass-baritone, flute, violin, viola, cello, and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in D Major for cello and piano
Shawn Okpebholo Balm in Gilead for baritone, flute, and piano
Maurice Ravel Scarbo for solo piano
Billy Childs Pursuit for solo piano
Undine Smith Moore, Afro-American Suite for flute, cello, and piano
Week one guests include: INNA FALIKS, piano,Yamaha Artist; founder/curator, Manhattan Arts Council Music/Words;
TIMOTHY JONES, bass-baritone, associate professor of voice, University of Houston; KENNETH OLSEN, cello, assistant principal of cello, Chicago Symphony Orchestra;STEPHANIE SANT’AMBROGIO, violin, University of Nevada, Reno; concertmaster, Fresno Philharmonic; Cactus Pear Music Festival
Incendiary Artist Spotlight “The Legend of Zori” | June 17 6:30 pm. Click here for additional event details.
Featuring violinist Carmit Zori. Beethoven Violin Sonata in A Major, op. 30/1 and Schumann Sonata in A minor, op. 105
Trash to Treasure | June 18 7:30 pm. Click here for additional event details.
Rebecca Clarke Morpheus for viola and piano
Rebecca Clarke Dumka for violin, viola, and piano
Luigi Boccherini Quintet in G Major, K438 for flute, violin, viola, and two cellos
Johannes Brahms Quintet in F minor, op. 34 for string quartet and piano
Hidden Gems | June 19 7:30 pm. Click here for additional event details.
Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces for cello and piano
José Pablo Moncayo Amatzinac for flute and string quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto no. 11 in F Major, K413
Maurice Ravel Sonatine for flute, cello, and piano
Ernst von Dohnanyi Quartet in F-sharp minor for violin, viola, cello and piano
week two guests include: SUZANNE BEIA, concertmaster, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; co-concertmaster, Madison Symphony Orchestra; Pro Arte Quartet; KATARZYNA BRYLA-WEISS, viola, Orchestra of St. Luke’s; New York City Ballet and New York Pops Orchestras; TRACE JOHNSON, cello, freelance chamber musician; PARRY KARP, cello, Pro Arte Quartet; UW-Madison; CARMIT ZORI, violin, Brooklyn Chamber Music Society
The Art of the Rag | June 25 7:30 pm. Click here for additional event details. **At Stoughton Opera House** Rags and early jazz by Scott Joplin, James Scott, Louis Chauvin, Joseph Lamb, Kenneth Laufer, Robert Carriker, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, Eubie Blake, Claude Debussy, and Artie Matthews
From Rags to Jazz | June 26 2:30 pm. Click here for additional event details. Rags and novelties by Scott Joplin, James Scott, Arthur Marshall, James Reese Europe, George Gershwin and Zez Confrey
week three guests: MARK BELAIR, percussion, jazz, classical, recording, and Broadway percussionist; poet with seven published collections; CYNTHIA CAMERON-FIX, bassoon, principal bassoon, Madison Symphony Orchestra; Trio Chiesa; ROBERT CARRIKER, tuba, performed with Empire Brass Quintet, Portland, Boston, and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras; ROBERT COUTURE, trombone, principal trombone, Boston Ballet; Boston Lyric Opera; Boston Landmarks Orchestra; BRUCE CREDITOR, clarinet, Naumberg Chamber Music award with the Emmanuel Wind Quintet; performed with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston and Rhode Island philharmonics; DANIEL GRABOIS, horn, associate professor of horn, UW-Madison
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