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Orchestral Music of Barbara Harbach on July 18 at Washington University
July 15, 2010


For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net

Barbara Harbach’s Rhapsodie Jardine for oboe and strings will be performed by the Gateway Festival Orchestra, Dr. James Richards, conductor on Sunday, July 18 – 7:30 PM in Brookings Quadrangle, just west of Brookings Hall, near the intersection of Brookings and Hoyt Drives on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Also on the Bach to Basics Summer program will be J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, the overture to Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.

Rhapsodie Jardine features lush harmonies and melodic invention, and is a musical vista of resonant colors and counterpoint. Cathy Woelbling-Paul, teacher of applied music in the University’s Arts & Sciences department, will serve as soloist in the work. It has been recorded for MSR Classics - http://www.msrcd.com/1252/1252.html.

The July 18 concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 314-569-0371 or visit http://www.gatewayfestivalorchestra.org/.

Barbara Harbach has toured extensively as both concert organist and harpsichordist. As a composer, she has a large catalog of works, including symphonies, works for chamber ensemble, string orchestra, organ, harpsichord, musicals, choral anthems, film scores, modern ballets, and many arrangements for brass and organ of various Baroque works. Her works are available on MSR Classics, Naxos, Gasparo Records, Kingdom Records, Albany Records and Northeastern Records, and are published by Hester Park, Robert King, Elkan-Vogel, Augsburg Publishing, Agape Music and Vivace Press.

MSR Classics has released Ms. Harbach’s Vocal Music for soprano, winds, strings, harp, trumpet and piano (MS1256), Chamber Music II, works for string orchestra and woodwind quintet ((MS1255) and Toccatas, Flourishes & Fugues, A Celebration of Hymns for organ solo (MS1254). For more about these and her other MSR CDs, visit http://www.msrcd.com/1256/1256.html. Visit http://www.umsl.edu/services/creative/assets/pdfs/messenger/harbach_fanfare.pdf to read an article about Harbach's music in the January-February issue of Fanfare magazine. Her website is at http://www.barbaraharbach.com/.

For press inquiries, photos or more information about Barbara Harbach, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.

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