Wednesday, September 9
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, September 11
East Bay Chapter, ARS
Monthly playing session, Michelle Levy, conductor. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10 PM
Zion Lutheran Church
5201 Park Blvd., Oakland.
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Luciana Miranda and Andrew Canepa
“Sacred Hits for Soprano and Keyboards” Luciana Miranda, soprano, and Andrew Canepa, harpsichord, organs and piano, perform well known and obscure works for from the baroque and Classical periods, including Veni Salvator Hominum by Philipp Friedrich Boeddeker, Laudate Dominum by Claudio Monteverdi, and In Lectulo Meo by Henri DuMont, as well as music of Girolamo Frescobaldi, François Couperin, J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Experience the lush interplay between voice and keyboard instruments as well as solo works for harpsichord and organ.
8 PM
St. Mary Magdalen
2005 Berryman, Berkeley
Tickets at the door: $20 General Admission / $15 Seniors and Students (Suggested Donation) Under 18 FREE
South Bay Recorder Society
Monthly meeting, guest conductor Louise Carslake. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10 PM
First Congregational Church of San Jose
1980 Hamilton Ave (at Leigh), San Jose
408-358-0878 or [email protected]
Saturday, September 12
Luciana Miranda and Andrew Canepa
“Sacred Hits for Soprano and Keyboards” Luciana Miranda, soprano, and Andrew Canepa, harpsichord, organs and piano, perform well known and obscure works for from the baroque and Classical periods, including Veni Salvator Hominum by Philipp Friedrich Boeddeker, Laudate Dominum by Claudio Monteverdi, and In Lectulo Meo by Henri DuMont, as well as music of Girolamo Frescobaldi, François Couperin, J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Experience the lush interplay between voice and keyboard instruments as well as solo works for harpsichord and organ.
2 PM
St. Mary Magdalen
2005 Berryman, Berkeley
Tickets at the door: $20 General Admission / $15 Seniors and Students (Sugguested Donation) Under 18 FREE
Prescott Lectures
“The Glories of Renaissance and Baroque Keyboard Music” John Prescott, Ph.D., presents a series of talks on the development of keyboard music from its beginnings in late Renaissance Italy, England, and Spain, through the baroque, to the era of Haydn and Mozart. Day 1. England, Spain, and Italy: the flowering of keyboard music in the late Renaissance. Read more . . .
1–3:30 PM
St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman St., Berkeley
$25 per session ($20 SFEMS members), $100/$85 full course
[email protected]
Viola da Gamba Society/Pacifica Chapter
Monthly viol consort playing with guest coach Elisabeth Reed. Players of all levels welcome. Newcomers please email ahead.
9 AM–3 PM
Hillside Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito
RSVP. Please email [email protected]
Albany Consort
“Familiar Repertoire—Unusual Arrangements” Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord; Marion Rubinstein, recorder; Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, David Wilson, and Rachel Hurwitz, violins; Katherine Hagen, viola; Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, cello; Roy Whelden, violone; Brandon Labadie and Glenda Bates, oboes; and Georgeanne Banker, bassoon, perform revised and revitalied works: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is reimagined as a concerto for as a chamber concerto for mixed instruments (recorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and continuo, a combinationVivaldi often employed), and as food for speculation regarding what Bach, Rameau and Handel might have done with Vivaldi’s material. Also on the program will be a much loved Bach work most often performed as a concerto for violin, two recorders and strings (Brandenburg Concerto No 4) in the later version which Bach himself re-worked, with a virtuoso harpsichord part replacing the virtuoso violin.
7:30 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley, Palo Alto
Buy Tickets $30 general, $25 seniors, $15 students
albanyconsort.org
Sunday, September 13
Albany Consort
“Familiar Repertoire—Unusual Arrangements” Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord; Marion Rubinstein, recorder; Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, David Wilson, and Rachel Hurwitz, violins; Katherine Hagen, viola; Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, cello; Roy Whelden, violone; Brandon Labadie and Glenda Bates, oboes; and Georgeanne Banker, bassoon, perform revised and revitalied works: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is reimagined as a concerto for as a chamber concerto for mixed instruments (recorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and continuo, a combinationVivaldi often employed), and as food for speculation regarding what Bach, Rameau and Handel might have done with Vivaldi’s material. Also on the program will be a much loved Bach work most often performed as a concerto for violin, two recorders and strings (Brandenburg Concerto No 4) in the later version which Bach himself re-worked, with a virtuoso harpsichord part replacing the virtuoso violin.
4:30 PM
California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison St, Berkeley
Buy Tickets $20
510-845-5373 or [email protected].
Voices of Music
“Bach’s Harpsichord” The stars are out for our celebration of Bach and harpsichord builder John Phillips, with soloists JungHae Kim, Davitt Moroney, Michael Peterson, Yuko Tanaka and Hanneke van Proosdij; a sumptuous wine and cheese reception will follow the performance.
7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell (at Gough), San Francisco
Adult $40, Senior 35, SFEMS/EMA/ARS member $35
Free for season subscribers
Regular tickets 415-260-4687, online, or at the door
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