Monday, March 2
American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas, Conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach, St. Matthew Passion. With soloists Wesley Rogers, tenor (Evangelista); William Sharp, baritone (Christus); Hélène Brunet (debut) and Clara Rottsolk, sopranos; Agnes Vojtko, mezzo-soprano (debut); Jay Carter countertenor; Charles Blandy and Derek Chester tenors; Thomas Meglioranza and Joshua Copeland, baritones.
7 PM
Davis Community Church
412 C Street, Davis
$27–$66
Tickets, 415-621-7900, [email protected]
Tuesday, March 3
Sacramento Recorder Society
Regular meeting for recorder players, with guest conductor Hanneke van Proosdij. Newcomers welcome. Bring recorders, stand, and other early instruments. Music provided. Refreshments.
6:45–9:30 PM
Friends Meeting House
890 57th St., between H and J, Sacramento.
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Wednesday, March 4
Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra
Regular meeting, for players of recorder, early winds or early strings. Bring your instrument(s) and music stand.
7:30–9:30 PM
Music Room number 060, J.L. Stanford Middle School
480 E. Meadow, Palo Alto
650-591-3648 or mpro-online.org
Friday, March 6
East Bay Chapter, ARS
Monthly playing session with guest conductor Judith Linsenberg. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10 PM
Zion Lutheran Church
5201 Park Blvd., Oakland.
www.symbolicsolutions.com/ebrs/
Magnificat, Warren Stewart, Director
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s oratorios Historia Esther and Judith, ou Béthulie libérée. The program will also include Charpentier’s setting of Psalm 137, Super flumina Babylonis and the Canticum in honorem beata Virginis Mariae. With Sopranos Laura Heimes and Catherine Webster, countertenor Andrew Rader, tenor Daniel Hutchings, and bass Peter Becker; plus an instrumental ensemble including Vicki Boeckman and Louise Carslake, recorder; Rob Diggins and Jolianne Einem, violin; John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, organ. There will be a lecture 45 minutes before each performance by Dr. John S. Powell. Read More
8 PM Preconcert lecture at 7:15
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
$35/$32/$12
Tickets online or 800-595-4849
New Esterházy Quartet
“Mozart Operatic Highlights” Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello, perform music from The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro in 18th-century arrangements for string quartet. In the 18th century, playing such arrangements on piano four-hands or strings with friends and family was popular home entertainment and a way for audiences to re-live their visit to the opera.
8 PM
Hillside Club, Berkeley
2286 Cedar St. (at Spruce), Berkeley
$20
Tickets for this Friday performance sold only at the door
Saturday, March 7
Magnificat, Warren Stewart, Director
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s oratorios Historia Esther and Judith, ou Béthulie libérée. The program will also include Charpentier’s setting of Psalm 137, Super flumina Babylonis and the Canticum in honorem beata Virginis Mariae. With Sopranos Laura Heimes and Catherine Webster, countertenor Andrew Rader, tenor Daniel Hutchings, and bass Peter Becker; plus an instrumental ensemble including Vicki Boeckman and Louise Carslake, recorder; Rob Diggins and Jolianne Einem, violin; John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, organ. There will be a lecture 45 minutes before each performance by Dr. John S. Powell. Read More
8 PM
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley (entrance on Dana near Durant)
$35/$32/$12
Tickets online or 800-595-4849
New Esterházy Quartet
“Mozart Operatic Highlights” Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello, perform music from The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro in 18th-century arrangements for string quartet. In the 18th century, playing such arrangements on piano four-hands or strings with friends and family was popular home entertainment and a way for audiences to re-live their visit to the opera.
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 Bach Choir, Magen Solomon, Director
“A Bach Sampler: A Cantata, a Mass, a Motet” J.S. Bach’s immense genius displays itself in every musical genre he attempted. We sample three in this program: the Lutheran Mass in F, one of his few works to feature virtuosic horn-playing; his exuberant motet Lobet den Herrn; and Cantata 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. The drama of this engaging cantata evokes the baroque musical innovation of opera, as the wise and foolish virgins are urged to hurry out to meet the bridegroom. With the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra and soloists.
8 PM
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore St. (at Jackson), San Francisco
General $30, Senior $25, Students (with ID) $10, Youth Free
Tickets on line, by phone 855-4SF-BACH (855-473-2224, toll free), or email [email protected]
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
The Conservatory Baroque Ensemble presents a concert version of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.
7 PM
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
Free
Email: [email protected], phone: 415-503-6275, www.sfcm.edu
Soli Deo Gloria, Allen H. Simon, Artistic Director
“Haydn’s Creation” Soli Deo Gloria with Orchestra Gloria, perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation. Haydn’s awe-inspiring masterpiece dramatizes the Biblical creation story from depictions of the Chaos preceding creation through the six days’ miraculous wonders, culminating in Adam and Eve’s naïve frolic in the Garden of Eden. Angels Raphael, Uriel, and Gabriel narrate. A choral music-lover’s treasure!
4:30 PM
Christ Episcopal Church
1700 Santa Clara, Alameda
Tickets are $26 (general) and $21 (student/senior) at the door; discount for advance purchase. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/37830, http://www.sdgloria.org/tickets.php, or call 888/SDG-SONG (888-734-7664) Group rates are also available; phone for details.
Sunday, March 8
Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra
“In Paradisium,”a benefit concert for Tom Zajac. The Barbary Coast Recorder Orchestra, now in its fourth year, is comprised of about 35 accomplished amateur players with recorders from soprano to sub contrabass. Music directors Frances Feldon and Greta Haug-Hryciw, along with guest conductor Peter Ballinger, will lead the orchestra in selections by Arroso (arr. Seibert), Ballinger, Debussy, Faure, King, Mouton, and Josquin. BCRO is an educational project of Voices of Music.
4:30 PM
Epworth United Methodist Church
1953 Hopkins St. (just above The Alameda), Berkeley.
Suggested donation of any amount welcome.
For information, please call 510-527-9029.
Magnificat, Warren Stewart, Director
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s oratorios Historia Esther and Judith, ou Béthulie libérée. The program will also include Charpentier’s setting of Psalm 137, Super flumina Babylonis and the Canticum in honorem beata Virginis Mariae. With Sopranos Laura Heimes and Catherine Webster, countertenor Andrew Rader, tenor Daniel Hutchings, and bass Peter Becker; plus an instrumental ensemble including Vicki Boeckman and Louise Carslake, recorder; Rob Diggins and Jolianne Einem, violin; John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, organ. There will be a lecture 45 minutes before each performance by Dr. John S. Powell. Read More
4 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
$35/$32/$12
Tickets online or 800-595-4849
New Esterházy Quartet
“Mozart Operatic Highlights” Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello, perform music from The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro in 18th-century arrangements for string quartet. In the 18th century, playing such arrangements on piano four-hands or strings with friends and family was popular home entertainment and a way for audiences to re-live their visit to the opera.
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
Passamezzo Moderno
“1629 Venice” Passamezzo Moderno (Jonathan Davis, harpsichord; David Granger, dulcian; Edwin Huizinga and Adriane Post, violin) with guest artists Ondine Young and Alicia Yang, violins; and Bruce Chrisp, sackbut, perform a program of early baroque music from Venice. Early 17th-century music is perfect for showing improvisation in the baroque, and the musical innovations of 1629 Venice were a giant leap forward in baroque instrumental music. Passamezzo Moderno will feature works by Dario Castello, Biagio Marini, and Guiseppe Scarani, all published or written in Venice in 1629, as well as works by 17th-century composers Isabella Leonarda and Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, in honor of International Women’s Day 2015. Read more . . .
4:30 PM
California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison St, Berkeley
$15
510-845-5373 or [email protected]
San Francisco Bach Choir, Magen Solomon, Director
“A Bach Sampler: A Cantata, a Mass, a Motet” J.S. Bach’s immense genius displays itself in every musical genre he attempted. We sample three in this program: the Lutheran Mass in F, one of his few works to feature virtuosic horn-playing; his exuberant motet Lobet den Herrn; and Cantata 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. The drama of this engaging cantata evokes the baroque musical innovation of opera, as the wise and foolish virgins are urged to hurry out to meet the bridegroom. With the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra and soloists.
4 PM
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore St. (at Jackson), San Francisco
General $30, Senior $25, Students (with ID) $10, Youth Free
Tickets on line, by phone 855-4SF-BACH (855-473-2224, toll free), or email [email protected]
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
The Conservatory Baroque Ensemble presents a concert version of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.
2 PM
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco
Free
Email: [email protected], phone: 415-503-6275, www.sfcm.edu
Soli Deo Gloria, Allen H. Simon, Artistic Director
“Haydn’s Creation” Soli Deo Gloria with Orchestra Gloria, perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation. Haydn’s awe-inspiring masterpiece dramatizes the Biblical creation story from depictions of the Chaos preceding creation through the six days’ miraculous wonders, culminating in Adam and Eve’s naïve frolic in the Garden of Eden. Angels Raphael, Uriel, and Gabriel narrate. A choral music-lover’s treasure!
3:30 PM
Grace Lutheran Church
3149 Waverley St., Palo Alto
Tickets are $26 (general) and $21 (student/senior) at the door; discount for advance purchase.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/37830, http://www.sdgloria.org/tickets.php, or call 888/SDG-SONG (888-734-7664) Group rates are also available; phone for details.
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