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The City of Bath Bach Choir (CBBC), is based in Bath, Somerset, England, and is a registered charity.〔(Registered Charity 1043756. Accounts lodged with UK Charity Commission )〕 Founded in 1946 by Cuthbert Bates, who also became a founding father of the Bath Bach Festival〔http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/5521〕〔http://callawaymedia.arts.uwa.edu.au/unrestricted/images/joyce/print/view/folder02/EJ00070-s001-v.jpg〕 in 1950, the choir’s original aim was to promote the music of Johann Sebastian Bach via periodic music festivals. Bates – an amateur musician with a great love and understanding of this composer’s works – was also the CBBC’s principal conductor and continued in this role until his sudden death, in April 1980. This untimely exit pre-empted his planned retirement concert performance of J. S Bach's Mass in B minor,〔http://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=subject%3A%22Bach+Festival.+Bath%2C+England.+1954%22〕〔http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/5519〕 scheduled for July of the same year, and effectively ended the first period of the choir's history. Distinguished Handelian scholar Denys Darlow succeeded Cuthbert Bates as Musical Director in 1980 and remained in the post until 1990. He was followed by Nigel Perrin, who has been conducting the CBBC ever since. Perrin began his musical life as a chorister at Ely Cathedral, then won a choral scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, studying under Sir David Willcocks. Whilst there, he became known as ‘the high voice’ (counter-tenor) of The King's Singers. The first President of the CBBC was Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams OM. Sir Arthur Bliss CH KCVO KT, then Master of the Queen's Music (Musik), took over as President in 1959, followed in 1975 by Sir David Willcocks CBE MC, until 2015. == Overview == The CBBC, a member of the Cultural Forum for the Bath area,〔http://cfba.org.uk/cfba-members-category/music-members/page/3/〕 has an illustrious history and continues to perform demanding and diverse choral works in the UK and overseas. Membership is governed by audition. The choir is widely regarded as one of the leading musical forces in the west of England and continues to perform two major orchestral concerts annually with a lighter concert in the summer. Most take place at Bath Abbey but other regular venues include The Forum, the Michael Tippett Centre and the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford on Avon. Recent performances have included J. S. Bach's Mass in B minor; Mass in Blue by Will Todd, accompanied by the composer; Elis Pehkonen's Russian Requiem,〔http://elispehkonen.com/the-music/choral-music/russian-requiem/〕 in the composer's presence; and works by Sir Karl Jenkins. The choir's 60th Anniversary Concert, in the Wiltshire Music Centre in 2007, comprised a newly commissioned work by Ed Hughes,〔http://www.edward-hughes.com〕 called Song for St Cecilia. The choir regularly tours abroad: Karl Jenkins’ Requiem was performed at Carnegie Hall, New York, in 2008,〔http://www.dciny.org/past-concerts/monday-january-21-2008-800-pm.html〕 and concerts have taken place at Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, Paris, and in Hungary, Belgium and Germany. In 2009 the choir was invited to perform in the famous Thomaskirche, where Johann Sebastian Bach was once choirmaster, and the CBBC’s most recent tour, to Aix-en-Provence,〔http://www.mayorofbath.co.uk/twinning-associations〕〔http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns〕 took place in October 2013. Today, referred to as the Bath Bach Choir, the choir comprises about 100 committed singers from Bath and its environs, drawn from all walks of life, offering them the opportunity to sing challenging works at the very highest level with professional orchestras and soloists – the very proposition Cuthbert Bates made in 1946. The choir maintains an active list of Patrons and Friends who support its musical work in return for a range of related benefits. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City of Bath Bach Choir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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