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CANTUS SALISBURGENSIS
SPRING FESTIVAL
International Choir and Orchestra Festival
Salzburg
22nd - 24th March 2012
14th - 16th March 2013
For choirs, orchestras, dancers and individual singers
Cantus Salisburgensis Spring Festival 2012
Compulsory pieces:
Festival concert: Halleluja from Messiah, G.F. Händel and Westside Story Medley, Leonard Bernstein
Festival mass: 4. lent sunday, "Laetare" Johann Sebastian Bach:
"Sei nun wieder zufrieden". BWV 21/9
Day 1: Thursday, Salzburg / Ecumenical service
Arrive Salzburg. Check into accommodation. Afternoon if desired city tour with local lic. city guide,
Meeting for the welcoming ecumenical service (each group is requested to prepare a sacred piece for the opening ceremony).
Evening: a meeting of all participating groups to get to know each other during the Austrian Folklore dinner. Directors meeting.
Day 2: Friday, Salzburg / Spring Festival concert
Morning and afternoon rehearsals for the individual groups for your own program. Music program per group/solist 12 minutes duration, preferable classical music and folk music if possible in native language.
Tutti rehearsal for compulsory pieces with L. Bernstein
Spring Festival concert in the Great Aula of the university of Salzburg.
3rd day: Saturday, departure
Breakfast and departure.
Cantus Salisburgensis Spring Festival 2013
Thursday March 14th - 16th 2013
Festival mass: 5. lent sunday, J.S. Bach "Jesus, Deine Passion" BWV 182/7
Festival concert: music in preperation
Prof. Janos Czifra is a native of Hungary and has been the cathedral music director since 1989. In addition to the normal services at the cathedral, he has led the cathedral choir and orchestra in events of international interest, including two papal visits, episcopal consecrations and jubilees, festivals of sacred music and symposiums. Invitations from abroad and numerous concert tours have led Prof. Czifra and the cathedral choir to the USA, Japan and many European cities. In 2002, he became a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts and was awarded the title of Professor. He very much values and enjoys the opportunities to work together with the many musical guests to Salzburg and the cathedral.
