Friday, January 2
Calextone
“Ianuario” Allison Lloyd Zelles, soprano; Shira Kammen, vielle; Tish Berlin and Frances Blaker, recorders, perform a concert of medieval and early Renaissance music celebrating the New Year, including New Year’s songs by Dufay and music from the original Carmina Burana!
7 PM
Hillside Community Swedenborgian Church
1422 Navellier St, El Cerrito
$20 general, $15 student/senior/SFEMS
510-559-4670
New Esterházy Quartet
“A Flight of Fugues” New Esterházy Quartet (Kati Kyme & Lisa Weiss, violin; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello) explore contrapuntal complexity in the music of Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, including Mozart’s Adagio & Fugue, K. 546; and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, Op. 133.
8 PM
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar St. (at Spruce), Berkeley
$20
Tickets for this Friday performance sold only at the door
Saturday, January 3
East Bay Chapter, ARS
Annual Twelfth night celebration and playing session with guest conductor Shira Kammen. New members and guests welcome.
2:30 PM
Hillside Community Swedenborgian Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito
2:30 PM Note special time and venue
www.symbolicsolutions.com/ebrs/
New Esterházy Quartet
“A Flight of Fugues” New Esterházy Quartet (Kati Kyme & Lisa Weiss, violin; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello) explore contrapuntal complexity in the music of Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, including Mozart’s Adagio & Fugue, K. 546; and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, Op. 133.
4 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St. (at Franklin), San Francisco
$25 (discounts for SFEMS members, seniors, and students)
415-520-0611 or www.newesterhazy.org
San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Katherine McKee, Music Director
Fifth Annual Boar’s Head Festival and Mid-Winter Gala. Join us for this 650-year-old tradition celebrating Twelfth Night. Our annual Boar’s Head Festival and Mid-Winter Gala, first performed by us in January of 2011, delights audiences young and old alike, and is our most popular event of each and every season! This evening of feasting, libations, music and dramatic surprises takes place at the court of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth I, and we are especially delighted to be joined by guest artist internally-renowned countertenor Brian Asawa. During this year’s Festival, the ambassador and members from the Imperial Court of the Emperor Kangxi appear in her majesty’s court bringing with them the music and dance of Ancient China for an eclectic concert when joined by our choristers performing the music of medieval and Renaissance England. We’ll be joined by our dance troupe, the San Francisco Renaissance Dancers, lutenist Adam Cockerham on theorbo, and Margaret Davis on Celtic harp and recorders. The evening begins with a reception and silent auction, followed by the concert at court. The evening ends with a grand Renaissance feast featuring traditional foods of the season—all washed down with generous amounts of wine and mead! Any attire you choose for her majesty’s court is fine; however, those of you who choose to come in period costume or masque will be especially welcomed!
8 PM
Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church
1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco
$50 General Admission; $45 Students and Seniors; $25 Child 12 or under
Tickets
Sunday, January 4
The Cherry Trio
“Fanasy and Invention” The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts presents the Cherry Trio (Katie Clare Mazzeo, harpsichord; Elizabeth Gaver, violin; and Penny Hanna, viola da gamba) performing music for strings and keyboard featuring the dramatic contrasts of gaiety and melancholy by masterful craftsmen of baroque invention. Program includes works by Bach, Biber, Buxtehude, Froberger, Marais, and more.
3 PM
Carl Cherry Center for the Arts
Guadalupe and 4th Avenue, Carmel
$20
831-629-7491 or www.carlcherrycenter.org
New Esterházy Quartet
“A Flight of Fugues” New Esterházy Quartet (Kati Kyme & Lisa Weiss, violin; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello) explore contrapuntal complexity in the music of Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, including Mozart’s Adagio & Fugue, K. 546; and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, Op. 133.
4 PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
555 Waverley St. (at Hamilton), Palo Alto
$25 (discounts for SFEMS members, seniors, and students)
415-520-0611 or www.newesterhazy.org
San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Katherine McKee, Music Director
Fifth Annual Boar’s Head Festival and Mid-Winter Gala. Join us for this 650-year-old tradition celebrating Twelfth Night. Our annual Boar’s Head Festival and Mid-Winter Gala, first performed by us in January of 2011, delights audiences young and old alike, and is our most popular event of each and every season! This evening of feasting, libations, music and dramatic surprises takes place at the court of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth I, and we are especially delighted to be joined by guest artist internally-renowned countertenor Brian Asawa. During this year’s Festival, the ambassador and members from the Imperial Court of the Emperor Kangxi appear in her majesty’s court bringing with them the music and dance of Ancient China for an eclectic concert when joined by our choristers performing the music of medieval and Renaissance England. We’ll be joined by our dance troupe, the San Francisco Renaissance Dancers, lutenist Adam Cockerham on theorbo, and Margaret Davis on Celtic harp and recorders. The evening begins with a reception and silent auction, followed by the concert at court. The evening ends with a grand Renaissance feast featuring traditional foods of the season—all washed down with generous amounts of wine and mead! Any attire you choose for her majesty’s court is fine; however, those of you who choose to come in period costume or masque will be especially welcomed!
4 PM
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park
$50 General Admission; $45 Students and Seniors; $25 Child 12 or under
Tickets
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