Wednesday, April 22
The Albany Consort
“Making it up” Marion Rubinstein recorder; Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord; Rita Lilly, soprano; Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, violin; Caitlin Cribs, violin and viola; and Amy Brodo, cello & viola da gamba, perform a program highlighting both composer and performer creativity. It was normal for composers to parody each other and for performers to go way beyond the written music in their performances. This program opens with the beautiful Renaissance chanson Doulce Memoire and a couple of virtuoso reworks; songs and instrumental pieces from the early baroque; improvisatory preludes; and mature works where composers set out a framework, expecting the performer to complete the composition; an a series of compositions based on the haunting “Spanish Follies,” including an original, group improvisation, a simple English harpsichord version, and a magnificent collaboration of Corelli, Geminiani and Salzedo.
Noon
Westminster Church
1300 N Street, Sacramento
Free
[email protected], 408-480-0182
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
Thursday, April 23
Barefoot Chamber Concerts
“Semper Dowland” Jarring Sounds (Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano and Adam Cockerham, lute) will collaborate with a quartet of local viol eminences—Marie Szuts, Julie Jeffrey, Tobi Szuts, and Peter Hallifax—to perform the 3 sad songs with lute and treble obbligato that Dowland published in his 1612 collection A Pilgrimes Solace and other music for viol consort and voice by Dowland.
6.30 PM
Petaluma Woman’s Club
518 “B” Street, Petaluma
Tickets $15 general, $13 seniors and SFEMS members. 18 and under admitted free and welcome.
Tickets at the door or order online.
More info at barefootchamberconcerts.com.
Friday, April 24
Barefoot Chamber Concerts
“Semper Dowland” Jarring Sounds (Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano and Adam Cockerham, lute) will collaborate with a quartet of local viol eminences—Marie Szuts, Julie Jeffrey, Tobi Szuts, and Peter Hallifax—to perform the 3 sad songs with lute and treble obbligato that Dowland published in his 1612 collection A Pilgrimes Solace and other music for viol consort and voice by Dowland.
6 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Tickets $15 general, $13 seniors and SFEMS members. 18 and under admitted free and welcome.
Tickets at the door or order online
More info at barefootchamberconcerts.com.
California Bach Society, Paul Flight, Conductor
“An Italian Lineage Carissimi, Scarlatti, Verdi, and Pizzetti” The master composers of the early baroque included many Italians, among them Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, and Giacomo Carissimi. Domenico Scarlatti, better known for his keyboard sonatas, was also a superb composer of religious music; we will present one of the first performances of his recently discovered Missa breve La stella for double choir. In the twentieth century, choral and chamber works by Italian composers were often neglected by a public more interested in opera. Ildebrando Pizzetti’s beautiful Messa di requiem is one such piece, composed in a modern, yet consciously neo-Renaissance style. Pizzetti’s student Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed Romancero gitano, based upon poetry of Federico García Lorca, for choir and solo guitar. Read more . . .
8 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’ Farrell St. (at Franklin), San Francisco
Advance purchase tickets are $25 general admission; $18 seniors; $10 students and under 30. Tickets purchased at the door are $30, $22 and $10, respectively. SFEMS members receive a $5 discount when using promotion code “SFEMS” at www.calbach.org/tickets.pl. Tickets can be purchased in advance by phone at 650-485-1097 or online at www.calbach.org/tickets.pl. The deadline for advance sales is 5 PM on Thursday, April 23. For information, phone 650-485-1097, visit www.calbach.org, or email [email protected].
Flauti Diversi
“Bienheureux Boismortier” Frances Feldon, baroque flute, and David Wilson, violin, perform a program of the nearly complete Duos for Baroque Flute and Violin, Op. 51 (1734) by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Boismortier’s music is always melodious, charming and elegant, and the juxtaposition of baroque flute and violin creates a gentle, beautiful, and intimate sound combination.
7:30 PM
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana St. (between Bancroft Way & Durant Ave.), Berkeley
$20 general, $15 SFEMS/seniors/students
Tickets & Information: 510-527-9029 or [email protected]
New Esterházy Quartet
“Students of Haydn VII” Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello, perform music by Franz Joseph Haydn, Paul Struck, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s quartet Op. 131. Read more . . .
8 PM
Hillside Club, Berkeley
2286 Cedar St. (at Spruce), Berkeley
$20
Tickets for this Friday performance sold only at the door
Saturday, April 25
California Bach Society, Paul Flight, Conductor
“An Italian Lineage Carissimi, Scarlatti, Verdi, and Pizzetti”
The master composers of the early baroque included many Italians, among them Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, and Giacomo Carissimi. Domenico Scarlatti, better known for his keyboard sonatas, was also a superb composer of religious music; we will present one of the first performances of his recently discovered Missa breve La stella for double choir. In the twentieth century, choral and chamber works by Italian composers were often neglected by a public more interested in opera. Ildebrando Pizzetti’s beautiful Messa di requiem is one such piece, composed in a modern, yet consciously neo-Renaissance style. Pizzetti’s student Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed Romancero gitano, based upon poetry of Federico García Lorca, for choir and solo guitar. Read more . . .
8 PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
555 Waverley (at Hamilton), Palo Alto
Advance purchase tickets are $25 general admission; $18 seniors; $10 students and under 30. Tickets purchased at the door are $30, $22 and $10, respectively. SFEMS members receive a $5 discount when using promotion code “SFEMS” at www.calbach.org/tickets.pl. Tickets can be purchased in advance by phone at 650-485-1097 or online at www.calbach.org/tickets.pl. The deadline for advance sales is 5 PM on Thursday, April 23. For information, phone 650-485-1097, visit www.calbach.org, or email [email protected].
Karen R. Clark, contralto
Baroque Master Class featuring singers from Karen Clark’s private voice studio, who will present songs, arias, and duets by baroque composers such as, Bach, Handel, and Purcell. Singers include Allison Lloyd Zelles, soprano; Amy Stuart Hunn, soprano; Celeste Winant, mezzo-soprano; Kwan Wong, countertenor; Monica Frame, mezzo-soprano; and Sally Terris, mezzo soprano. Harpsichordist Yuko Tanaka and violist da gamba Roy Whelden will accompany.
10 AM to 3 PM The master class runs from 10 AM to 1:30 PM and is followed by a performance beginning promptly at 2 PM.
Berkeley Piano Club
2724 Haste St, Berkeley
Auditors and audience members are welcome to join for either portion of the day for a suggested donation of $25. Seniors, students, and SFEMS members: $20.
You may drop in, or if you know you would like to attend please let us know by using this contact form
New Esterházy Quartet
“Students of Haydn VII” Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello, perform music by Franz Joseph Haydn, Paul Struck, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s quartet Op. 131. Read more . . .
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
SFEMS Medieval and Renaissance Workshop Collegium
“All vol, all vol!” Adam Knight Gilbert leads an all-day workshop for voices, recorders, viols, harps, sackbuts, dulcians and all manner of early instruments. The workshop will focus on German songs and devotional music as well as more rustic fare, featuring selections from the Glogauer Liederbuch, and songs by Ludwig Senfl, both moral and comic. Workshop pitch will be A=440. Bring your instruments, music stands and pencils. Lunch is potluck. Coffee and tea will be provided. Read more . . .
9:30 AM to 4 PM
Hillside Community Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito
$50 full day; $30 half day. This collegium day raises scholarship funds to help SFEMS pay the tuition of participants who could not otherwise afford to attend the summer Medieval & Renaissance Workshop.
Download registration form here. Please register by April 17.
Sunday, April 26
California Bach Society, Paul Flight, Conductor
“An Italian Lineage Carissimi, Scarlatti, Verdi, and Pizzetti”
The master composers of the early baroque included many Italians, among them Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, and Giacomo Carissimi. Domenico Scarlatti, better known for his keyboard sonatas, was also a superb composer of religious music; we will present one of the first performances of his recently discovered Missa breve La stella for double choir. In the twentieth century, choral and chamber works by Italian composers were often neglected by a public more interested in opera. Ildebrando Pizzetti’s beautiful Messa di requiem is one such piece, composed in a modern, yet consciously neo-Renaissance style. Pizzetti’s student Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed Romancero gitano, based upon poetry of Federico García Lorca, for choir and solo guitar. Read more . . .
4 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
2300 Bancroft Way (at Ellsworth), Berkeley.
Advance purchase tickets are $25 general admission; $18 seniors; $10 students and under 30. Tickets purchased at the door are $30, $22 and $10, respectively. SFEMS members receive a $5 discount when using promotion code “SFEMS” at www.calbach.org/tickets.pl. Tickets can be purchased in advance by phone at 650-485-1097 or online at www.calbach.org/tickets.pl. The deadline for advance sales is 5 PM on Thursday, April 23. For information, phone 650-485-1097, visit www.calbach.org, or email [email protected].
New Esterházy Quartet
“Students of Haydn VII” Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello, perform music by Franz Joseph Haydn, Paul Struck, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s quartet Op. 131. Read more . . .
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
Noe Valley Chamber Music
“Love and the Knight” The a cappella men’s ensemble Clerestory celebrates Valentine’s Day with a musical homage to the medieval King Charlemagne. The concert features music from the earliest days of European cathedrals to the High Renaissance masters who followed, including Gregorian and Ambrosian chant, the mysticism of Hildegard von Bingen, the love songs of the French troubadours, and the woven polyphony of the Flemish masters. Let courtly love and gallant songs transport you back in time. The concert will run just over an hour with no intermission.
4 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell, San Francisco
$25/$20
Tickets
[email protected] or call 415-648-5236 for more info.
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