T: Well, as far as our Bach Festival is concerned, in 1936 the conductor of the Rollins
 Chapel Choir, Christopher Honaas, had an all-Bach performance one Sunday
 afternoon and a woman by the name of Mrs. [Isabella] Sprague-Smith heard it. It
 reminded her of Bethlehem [Pennsylvania, whose Bach Festival has occurred
 annually since 1901], with which she was familiar, and [she] wanted to get the thing
 going and turn it into a Bach Festival. So the next year they called it a Bach Festival
 and began an annual performance, and then it just grew into what we have today.

S: But you do not always concentrate just on Bach.

T: Oh, no. You see, this was the one big, really fine choir in Central Florida and a lot
 of the people in the choir like all kinds of music, and a lot of the audience that came
 to the Bach Festival liked all kinds of music. So we took advantage of the choir and
 the audience and, in addition to giving them the Bach, we added some other things.
 So for a long number of years now we have had a comprehensive performance. I
 think you will find practically all Bach Festivals do that. They put on enough Bach
 to be a Bach Festival, but then they go on and add something else.

S: Yes. In December of 1991, I played with Dr. [John V.] Sinclair, and a group of
 musicians in the Bach Festival choir for a television Christmas special. [It was] about
 thirty minutes long, and it will be broadcast on PBS [Public Broadcasting System]
 from now to kingdom come.

T: Well, you are talking about the one on channel two.

S: Yes.

T: I think you are.

S: Yes.

T: Well, it was broadcast that Christmas, twice on Christmas day, and this last
 Christmas, 1992, they broadcast it twice.

S: I wondered if that was an indication of some things to come?

T: It was quite expensive for us, although channel two did it at a discount rate. I am
 sure they paid a good deal of the cost for running it, but we had, in addition to
 paying some of the recording costs, to hire an orchestra and pay for several
 rehearsals and the performance. So when you add that cost to the other, we had a
 pretty big cost in producing it. I do not know if we could do that very often, but I
 think the one we did was a very good one.

S: Right.

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