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Feedback to the Bach Cantatas Website
Year 2008

January 2008

Yoël L. Arbeitman wrote (January 3, 2007):
<> Much thanks to Aryeh without whose indefatigable work, we would have no reference to cite at all.

Thomas Braatz wrote (January 3, 2007):
[After adding Bach Portrais to the Memorabilia section]
<> As far as I can tell everything is now correct. I have not yet read through all the detailed descriptions, but from the few that I did see, they appear to be excellent in the the details that are offered about each 'portrait'. Now the BCW will have become the best available on-line resource on Bach's portraits. Congratulations!

Balwantray Chauhan [Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada] wrote (January 4, 2007):
My humble and heartfelt thanks to you for your monumental efforts to keep the BCW alive, well and thriving.

All the best for 2008 and a year of wonderful music.

Kirk McElhearn wrote (January 4, 2007):
Aryeh Oron wrote:
< The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) was launched in its current form and address on December 30, 2000. >
Congratulations. Who would have thought... You've become an internationally recognized reference, with the website appearing in liner notes of many cantatas. What an amazing job you've done!

John Pike wrote (January 4, 2007):
[To Kirk McElhearn] Yes. A remarkable achievement. Just like the great master himself, the BCW was a miracle before but it just gets better every year!

Julian Mincham wrote (January 4, 2007):
[To Aryeh Oron] Just to add my own words of congratualation and appreciation for this considerable achievement and its success.

I have been a member for about 2 1/2 years now, by no means the longest but certainly one of the keenest. I think i have done intros for about a dozen and a half cantatas of this present round.

In the first two years, one of the most valuable of the many resources (for me) was the collection of the reduction scores although I have to confess that since I bought the Bârenreiter complete set last easter (particularly at the pre-publication price, excellent value for money, by the way) I use them less, but there's still plenty more on the site of interest and usefulness.

I just wondered--do we have a claim for the 'oldest continuous member?' A bottle of claret for anyone who can prove his/her credentials. (Mind you , you would have to collect it!)

Paul Forsell [Helsinki, Finland] wrote (January 5, 2007):
First, a HUGE, HEARTFELT and SINCERE thank you for maintaining this TRULY WONDERFUL website !!!!!!!!
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Best wishes from Helsinki,

Tobin Schmuck [Bach Office - Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, NYC, USA] wrote (January 10, 2008):
<> thanks, as always for your great website, and the opportunity to link to it.

Alison Atkinson [Digital Projects Manager - London Philharmonic Orchestra] wrote (January 11, 2007):
I discovered your excellent site today while searching for LPO material on the web. <>

Mahiruha Klein (January 14, 2007):
Thank You!

Just a letter of thanks to you for maintaining such a fantastic site dedicated to the vocal work of one of my heroes, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Thank you with all my heart for your dedication and hard work. Your site is a treasure trove for music-lovers and Bach-admirers everywhere.

With deepest gratitude to you,

James Edward Mulcahy (January 14, 2007):
I enjoyed your brief biography of Charles Munch. <>

James Edward Mulcahy (January 16, 2007):
[Upon joining the BCML]
I adore the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and I am extremely grateful to Mr. Aryeh Oron for organizing a first-class site dedicated to him.

Masao Kato [Guitar and mandolin teacher, Bihoro, Japan - Masao Kato’s Web site] wrote (January 17, 2008):
I enjoyed your website.
Great content of the website.
You are a wonderful musician. <>

Katsuyuki YANO [Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo, Japan] wrote (January 19, 2008):
I am quite impressed with your web pages and wish to contribute shortly profiles about Telemann Institute Japan ("TIJ"), and some of their leading members for inclusion in one of your web pages. <>

Lynne Harper wrote (January 20, 2008):
Here is a an announcement of an upcoming Cantata Performance not listed on your superb website:
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May I add my thanks to you - and to all the weekly discussion leaders and contributors - for this wonderful site, which has added so much enjoyment to my life!

Etzim wrote (January 20, 2008):
[Upon joining the BCML]
This sounds like a fascinating site. I've read several of the webpages and reviews.

André Papillon Etzim wrote (January 21, 2008):
The Bach Cantatas Website is great ! <>

Michael Lawrence wrote (January 21, 2008):
[After updating the page: Michael Lawrence Films Bach Film]
Thanks! The page looks great. <>

Katsuyuki YANO [Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo, Japan] wrote (January 21, 2008):
I have one suggestion for betterment of your invaluable web pages. <>

Göran Tegnér [Stockholm, Sweden] wrote (January 26, 2008):
First my compliments for an excellent site. <>

February 2008

Frits van Laeken Herbold [São Paulo, Brazil] wrote (February 2, 2008):
<> Finally, again, I want to congratulate you and all the BCW enthusiasts that are helping to keep this the #1 Cantata Website! Best regards (I am on the BCML as Frits V. Herbold; thank you!)

Angela Boyd wrote (February 5, 2008):
Just read your excellent bio with good pics - too - for Roger. <>

Jean Laaninen [BCML] wrote (February 12, 2008):
[Following the announcement of Feb 12, 2008 - BCW - Changes & Additions]
Very nice improvements. Thanks for all your hard work, Aryeh.

Jean-Pierre Grivois [BCML] wrote (February 12, 2008):
Bravo for these changes.
I am happy to note that you are still faithfull to Jazz.I lately heard a wondeful record by Yo Yo Ma playing fugues in the tango style: it's not Jazz but it is very interesting.

Olle Hedström wrote (February 13, 2008):
Yes, I certainly do. The home page has always been a great pleasure to visit, and even more so now. Keep up the good work !

Kim Patrick Clow [BCML] wrote (February 13, 2008):
Thank you very much Aryeh for that information and please send my hearty thanks to Herr Braatz. Also, great job on the site revamping; and I appreciate the love and care you dedicate to such a vitally important website.

Thanks

Hiroyuki Tanaka [Japan, Bach's Music with Piano] wrote (February 15, 2008):
Greetings and some correction to BCW PT's

Hello, my name is Hiroyuki writing from Japan. I also love Bach's music, am especially interested in piano transcriptions of his. I'm collecting all of PT's and I'm a webmaster of the site named "Bach's Music with Piano", though it is written in Japanese only... http://www.prox.jpn.org/~piano/bach/

I found articles of PTs on your website BCW, they're really great, valuable for all Bach lovers! Could you please exchange some informations about Bach's PTs with me? I think I can provide some Japanese domestic informations for you. <>

Alessandro Lattanzi [Cremona, Italy] wrote (February 16, 2008):
Bach Cantatas Website

First of all, I want you to know how much I appreciate your website. Maybe you would like to be informed about a recording of the St John Passion that I have not found in list:
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Many thanks again for your excellent work and best regards.

Alberto Bellio [Cremona, Italy] wrote (February 20, 2008):
Hello, your site is great, congratulations! <>

Kim Patrick Clow [Christoph Graupner Information Site] wrote (February 23, 2008):
Bach Cantatas and Graupner and Telemann

First let me thank you for your incredible dedication to the Bach cantata website and Yahoo group, it has to be a enormous amount of work!

I'm fascinated by the amount of dedication of the participants. I've mentioned in a few instances when I've posted, my work on Christoph Graupner and Telemann. <>

Pamela Ross [Pianist - Pamela Ross, Actress/Pianis/Writer] wrote (February 23, 2008):
Bach cantata web site

You are greatly admired and appreciated for creating and maintaining this site. I am very happy to be included on it.

James Leslie Siebach wrote (February 24, 2008):
I think, perhaps a first . . . .
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I'm enjoying the commentary/discussions on the cantatas, of course.

Thank you.

Eva Hedlund [Sweden] wrote (February 28, 2008):
<> But this time I have just sent you a mail to complete your large, impressing list of biographies that I found when looking for Bruno Seidlhofer.

I hope it will be of interest - no: I am sure it is of great interest!

Jean Laaninen wrote (February 29, 2008):
Thank you Aryeh. All the available resources help those who have particular interests to follow them well. Your generosity in continuing to build the site is exemplary.

Eva Hedlund [Sweden] wrote (February 29, 2008):
[After adding the bio of As for the biography of Lars Sellergren]
many thanks for your answer, your answers! I was very astonished and impressed by your fastness... <>

March 2008

Frits van Laeken Herbold [São Paulo, Brazil[ wrote (March 1, 2008):
<> Best regards and thank you for your continuing work on the BCW!

Peter B. Metcalf wrote (March 3, 2008):
I appreciate very much your website, which must be useful and enjoyable to people of many vocations and avocations.

Professor Moroney, teaching my Bach class at the University of California at Berkeley, requests that for our papers we practice "safe text", a new concept to me. This means I or someone reading my paper be able to trace to its author, any reference I make and in turn, confirm their source of information and on down the line to either the original secondary source, or a dead end, should they so choose. I may refer the professor to your website or call him to confirm that my use of your site is OK. It would be helpful if you could describe to me any standards you employ when evaluating the credibility of your contributors or the information they contribute. It must be a full time job, regardless.

Right now, I am writing program notes for BWV 4 as an adjunct to my analysis of Versus I and answering the question of the movement's impact being due to the structure or the foreground; hence I am giving some background of the chorale tune. Where the tune was used previously and in Bach's time can be researched laboriously, but what a relief if I can just quote your site!

Thanks very much, and I know I will be referring to it as the years go by. I am a professional musician, and already, seeing your discography, I see a way to find better recordings than the one I purchased for this assignment.

Martin Deller wrote (March 4, 2008):
I am the grandson of Alfred Deller. Whilst I enjoyed reading your biography of my Grandfather there are a couple of small factual inaccuracies.
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Thank you very much for taking the time to write the biog about my Granddad.

Pier Cantates wrote (March 5, 2008):
[Upon joining the BCML]
Hi, I'm a 32 year old Theology student from The Netherlands. Lately I've been "touched" by some of the Cantates and found your site to be valuable information.

Bruce Simonson wrote (March 6, 2008):
[After adding the page with his commentary: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Guide/BWV34-Simonson.htm]
Looks terrific! Thanks for the posting. <>

Ed Myskowski wrote (March 8, 2008):
<> I wanted to take enough time to actually look at the new look. I do like it, especially the home page.

Usually when I pass through there, it is to connect to a specific link, and I hardly notice anything else anymore. But remembering back a couple years, I think the new layout will be a bit simpler for new people to find their way around, and it is very attractive.

The Gothic lettering gave me pause for thought, not the easiest to read for the English language eye. On balance, perhaps it helps relate the English alphabet to other scripts, for a world-wide site? In any case, everything functional is very clear and accessible.

I think you do a remarkable job keeping BCW clean of internal errors. I write when I have a question, because I know if there is an error, you will want to correct it. Thanks, as always, for taking the time to respond to details.

I also think you do an excellent job moderating the discussions. Thanks for that, as well.

Frederick M Denny, Ph.D. [Vice President, Boulder Bach Festival, Professor Emeritus Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA] wrote (March 7, 2008):
Bach Translation Acknowledgement

[To Francis Browne - Bach Cantatas Website] We are delighted to have an opportunity to use your fine interlinear English translation of the German text of the St. John Passion (BWV 245) by J.S. Bach. The Boulder Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra will perform the work on Saturday evening, March 15, 2008, at First United Methodist Church, Boulder, Colorado, under the baton of our Music Director Lawrence Golan. Timothy Krueger, our Chorus Director, prepared the Chorus for the demanding piece. We are acknowledging your permission to use your translation with gratitude in the program notes for that performance and including your website address http://www.bach-cantatas.com, as requested in your end-note to the translation.

I am copying our Music and Chorus Directors, our Executive Director Carole Whitney, and our Board of Directors. We are all most grateful for your generosity in permitting us to use your clear and straightforward translation!

Francis Browne wrote (March 8, 2008):
[To Frederick M Denny] Thank you fot your courtesy in acknowledging my translation. I am delighted if it is of any use to you andI wish your concert of Bach's magnificent music every success. Please note however that it is not my website address - the credit for the great resources available for all who love Bach on the Bach Cantatas Website is due entirely to the splendid and indefatigable Aryeh Oron.

Eddy [Communications for Ensemble Da Capo, Canada] wrote (March 10, 2008):
<> Thank you and congratulations to the great info on the bach-cantatas site!

Nils Giebelhausen [Tenor, Germany] wrote (March 12, 2008):
I would like to congratulate you for your interesting Bach cantata homepage, which I recently discovered. <>

Wolfgang Fleischmann wrote (March 12, 2008):
Thanks for the wonderful web site!
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Anyway, it's only a minute point. Thanks for the great website,

Frederic H. Ford, Ph.D.[East Brunswick, NJ, USA] wrote (March 13, 2008):
[After updating the bio of G(eorge) Wallace Woodworth]
Thanks. And I am a big fan and occasional user of the Bach websites--what a great resource!

Nils Giebelhausen [Tenor, Germany] wrote (March 13, 2008):
[After adding his bio]
<> Thank you for your valuable work,

Carolyn Pennello Carson wrote (March 15, 2008):
I read, with great interest, your coverage of the arrangements of the Bach contatas by Anton Bilotti, a composer whom I have researched his life and piano music for the past 20 years and is featured on my web site:
www.carolyncarsonpiano.com.
I was flattered to see that several sentences of your bio of Mr. Bilotti refer to my summary of his background and piano music. <>

Francis Browne wrote (March 15, 2008):
<> A sour note :I hate Gothic script - German books printed in Fraktur (gothic type) are always a pain to read, and I do not think its use adds anything to your start page - I am also not able to hear the scrolling music- but that is probably my fault.

Please do not imagine these niggles in any way lessen my admiration and gratitude for all your work on the website. <>

John Tibbetts [Software Architect - San Francisco, California, USA - www.kinexis.com] wrote (March 16, 2008):
I’m a music-lover unaffiliated with any academic institution. In particular I’m a Bach fan, a cantata collector, an early music fan. I visit your site every Sunday morning as I listen to the cantata of the day on XM Radio. <>

Alberto Bellio [Cremona, Italy] wrote (February 27, 2008):
<> Congratulations for your site again.

Derek Chester [Tenor, USA] wrote (March 18, 2008):
It has been a while since I contributed to your website, but I assure you that I use it weekly as a resource.
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Thanks for what you do.

Derek Chester [Tenor, USA] wrote (March 19, 2008):
[After adding his bio to the BCW]
Wonderful to be added. I wanted to let you know that I am entering in to my doctoral studies at the University of North Texas (with Jennifer Lane) where they have a wonderful early music and opera department. I am considering doing my paper on Bach continuo arias for tenor. I propose to make a collection and get it published. I did my Bach pilgrimage this time last year. I was completely changed. Missed Koethen , but got to spend some great time in Leipzig, where I met Christoph Wolf, whose book I used along with the bach-cantatas site as my tour guide. Thanks for your support of all of this and for what you do for Bach. My colleagues and I are all big fans of the site and find it a priceless resource.

Sven Bring wrote (March 23, 2008):
[Upon joining the BRML]
This site helped me find the long searched Gillesberger recording of St John! Many thanks!

Regine Dierse [KulturKontor, Hamburg, German] wrote (March 20, 2008):
<> Thank you very much for representing Jörg Dürmüller on Bach Cantatas.

Jean Laaninen [BCML] wrote (March 23, 2008):
Wishing people well on a Bach list

[To Terejia] We are all indebted to Aryeh for the site, the lists, and giving us such an opportunity. Thank you for your kind words.

Thérèse Hanquet [BCML] wrote (March 24, 2008):
Church Year and Easter Dates

[To Jean Laaninen & Paul T. McCain] As far as I can see here: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Order-2008.htm
I am the last one to have an assignment this year (from October 19^th to November 23^rd).

I would not mind at all if this was modified. I took the charge to answer Aryeh's request, as I appreciate his work and I am very grateful for all the resources he provides. <>

Terejia [BCML] wrote (March 26, 2008):
[To Jean Laaninen] Indeed...we cannot thank enough for this wonderful site. Practically, this is the only place I can enjoy participating and listening in in conversation on Bach. <>

Sergey Nikitin wrote (March 27, 2008):
My name is Sergey Nikitin. I live in Moscow. I have a big collection of classic CD (about 22-25 thousands)and LP (about 6,5 thousands). The records of J.S. Bach and especially cantatas have in my collection a most important place. I read and use the Bach-cantatas site regularly and I thank you for this great matter.

Simon Foster [Managing Director, AVIE Records, London, England] wrote (March 27, 2008):
I am shortly to release a CD of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing at Emmanuel Church, Boston. The music includes two arias from Bach Cantatas and extracts of recits and arias from Handel's Hercules.

You may know my label AVIE Records. We recorded and released a CD of arias from Theodora, plus the cantata La Lucrezia.

The disc is intended to celebrate the lives of both Craig Smith and Lorraine. The 'live' archive recordings are superb and receive their first release on CD.

I was very impressed by your 'short' biography of Lorraine, <> I would like to suggest to Emmanuel Music and its pro-tem director John Harbison that we use this text in the booklet. <>. You would be credited in the booklet with an additional web address if you liked. <>

Peter Moncure wrote (March 29, 2008):
BWV127-M1-Inc.htm

I read it carefully, enjoyed it a great deal, as I am also a counter of thematic instances in Bach's music, and even more liberal than you I suspect. The device of starting all of them on F is ingenious and revealing.
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Thank you very much for all you do.

April 2008

Caroline Agarwala wrote (April 1, 2008):
the bach-cantatas website

Just to say this is the most wonderful, useful and fascinating website I have ever come across, and I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am to you for it.

I was seeking the Bach Cantatas according to the Lutheran year, an an explanation of dates such as "Exaudi" to put the cantatas into context, know when to play them, etc. and suddenly I came across this site. Thank you so much.

Sergey Schepkin [Associate Professor of Piano, Carnegie Mellon University - Sergey Schepkin] wrote (April 6, 2008):
Bach Cantatas Website

This is Sergey Schepkin, an American pianist, one of many musicians whom you feature on your excellent Bach Cantatas Website.

I would like to thank you for your dedication and professionalism, as well as for drawing the wider audiences' attention to Bach's music and Bach performers, myself included. <>

Serhan Bali [Andante “Turkey’s Classical Music Magazine”] wrote (April 10, 2008):
Hello again from Istanbul

<> I follow your Bach Cantatas site regularly…

Emanuele Antonacci wrote (April 10, 2008):
[After adding more Italian translations]
<> Your site is always better
thanks

Sw Anandgyan wrote (April 12, 2008):
[After adding the details of another BWV 232 Recording]
You're the most welcomed Aryeh!

Bach-Cantatas Website, your baby, is alreading more than a fixture but a monument in the cyber-world.

I'm glad I can contribute to its exhaustive nature.

Shalom, Namasté, As-Salamu Alaykum, etc. etc.

Tx

Eeva Savolainen [Lahti Finland - Marketing Coordinator www.classiclive.com] wrote (April 14, 2008)
[After publicizing their live Bach concert]
Thank you so much. As a small thank you, we’ll add a link to your website on our Backstage-section, where we will portray an interview of the artist and composer. This interview will be posted there later this week (1-2 days before the concert) if you’d like to go and check it out.

Tobin Schmuck [Bach Office - Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, NYC, USA] wrote (April 14, 2008):
<> We are always grateful for the work and care you present on-line regarding Bach's Cantatas and other works, and it would be lovely to meet you sometime.

Thanks again.

Dr. Stephen Ng [Tenor; Assistant Professor of Music - Stetson University School of Music, DeLand FL, USA) wrote (April 21, 2008):
Thanks for everything that you have done on the Bach cantata website -- very helpful indeed! <>

Serhan Bali [Turkey] wrote (April 22, 2008)
I mentioned you and your efforts (briefly) in the last paragraph of my current article for the Turkish daily "Radikal". http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=253729

Francis Browne [BCML] wrote (April 25, 2008):
BWV 149 Introduction

This week's cantata is BWV 149, Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg. As always Aryeh has provided a wealth of material for the understanding and enjoyment of the cantata at: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/BWV149.htm

(Everyone who takes a turn at doing these introductions must come to appreciate how much has already been done by Aryeh: text, translations, recordings, commentary, readings, scores, examples...... If there is ever any inclination to take it all for granted, all you have to do is to try to find the equivalent for another composer to appreciate what Aryeh has achieved) <>

Richard Jessen wrote (April 25, 2008):
Eileen Joyce

I have come across your website from time and keep running into artists who, to my knowledge, had a very slight acquantance with the music of Bach. Still, the biographies and photos are highly interesting.

I was very attracted to a biography on Eileen Joyce and heard mention of several recorded broadcast performances of hers. <>

Stephen Benson [BCML] wrote (April 26, 2008):
Francis Browne wrote:
< This week's cantata is BWV 149, Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg. As always Aryeh has provided a wealth of material for the understanding and enjoyment of the cantata >
Perhaps this has already been noted somewhere else, but, if not, I think it should be pointed out that at the end of the texts and translations in the liner notes for Gardiner's recording, readers are directed to the Bach Cantatas Website for "translations in other languages".

Kim Patrick Clow wrote (April 27, 2008):
<> You do a tremendous job and I can't thank you enough for your dedication to Baroque music and Bach in particular.

Thank you

May 2008

Timothy A. Smith [Professor of Music Theory; Editor, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, School of Music, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA] wrote (May 3, 2008):
Over the decade I have developed a great appreciation for your work at the bach-cantatas website. The information that you present has been useful in my research and I have linked to it in several places. I have also found the discussions and audio links to be very helpful.
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