Monday, April 27
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
SFCM Conservatory Baroque Ensemble, Corey Jamason and Elisabeth Reed, directors, performs a concert of 17th- and 18th-century chamber music for strings, winds and continuo.
2 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall
50 Oak St., San Francisco
FREE
415-503-6275
Wednesday, April 29
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, May 1
American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas, Conductor
“Bach, Vivaldi, & Leo” This program of vocal and instrumental works includes countertenor Ian Howell performing J.S. Bach’s solo cantata Gott soll allein mein Herze haben (“God alone shall have my heart”) and Vivaldi’s psalm setting Nisi Dominus, originally composed for an extraordinary soloist in his Venetian ensemble at the Ospedale della Pietà. Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major, Bach’s virtuosic tour through French dance forms, will showcase the magnificent instrumental forces of ABS. Another highlight will be the opportunity to hear the 2015 Jeffrey Thomas Award recipient, Gretchen Claassen, performing Leonardo Leo’s Concerto for Violoncello in A Major. Last but hardly least is Bach’s beloved Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, with soloists Elizabeth Blumenstock and Cynthia Black.
8 PM
St. Stephen’s Church
3 Bay View Ave., Belvedere
$27–$66
Tickets, 415-621-7900, [email protected]
Cal Performances presents Les Arts, Florissants
Les Arts Florissants: “Airs Serieux et à Boire” Les Arts Florissants, one of the world’s most respected early music groups and currently the Baroque musical ensemble-in-residence at the Théâtre de Caen in Caen, France, presents a program of late 17th-century French airs by Michel Lambert, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Joseph Chabanceau de la Barre, and Honoré d’Ambruys. Love, loss, and licentiousness are some of the earthly themes explored in these works, originally performed in the court of Louis XIV.
8 PM
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way (entrance near Dana & Durant), Berkeley
$72
Tickets online, or 510-642-9988
East Bay Chapter, ARS
Monthly playing session with guest conductor David Morris. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10 PM
Zion Lutheran Church
5201 Park Blvd., Oakland.
www.symbolicsolutions.com/ebrs/
Slavyanka Chorus
“Russian Spirit, Russian Land” Sacred hymns and secular songs from Russia’s timeless musical traditions. The concert will feature ancient monastic chants, rousing Cossack songs, and liturgical hymns from some of Russia’s greatest composers (known and unknown), much of it almost never heard outside Russia. Some of the least known Russian choral music is sacred music from the 17th and 18th centuries. As Russia opened the doors to outside cultural influences under Peter the Great, composers began all sorts of new experiments in bringing new European musical innovations to the ancient traditions of medieval Russian church music. These experiments laid the musical foundations for the more familiar work of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and others in the late 19th century, and the early 20th century writing of Chesnokov and Rachmaninov.
7:30 PM
Christ Episcopal Church
70 Santa Rosa Ave., Sausalito
$18/$20
Tickets 510-798-7966
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1437892
[email protected]
Saturday, May 2
American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas, Conductor
“Bach, Vivaldi, & Leo” This program of vocal and instrumental works includes countertenor Ian Howell performing J.S. Bach’s solo cantata Gott soll allein mein Herze haben (“God alone shall have my heart”) and Vivaldi’s psalm setting Nisi Dominus, originally composed for an extraordinary soloist in his Venetian ensemble at the Ospedale della Pietà. Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major, Bach’s virtuosic tour through French dance forms, will showcase the magnificent instrumental forces of ABS. Another highlight will be the opportunity to hear the 2015 Jeffrey Thomas Award recipient, Gretchen Claassen, performing Leonardo Leo’s Concerto for Violoncello in A Major. Last but hardly least is Bach’s beloved Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, with soloists Elizabeth Blumenstock and Cynthia Black.
8 PM
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way (entrance on Dana near Durant), Berkeley
$27–$66
Tickets, 415-621-7900, [email protected]
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
“American Treasures” SCBF’s 42nd Season, “Treasures from The Birth of the Baroque,” continues with a program featuring Lux Musica and Hank Bradley, Old Timey fiddle performing a kaleidoscope of American music, from the earliest colonial dance and sacred music styles, old timey fiddling and shape note psalmody, to rollicking and sophisticated selections from the 18th century. We close with the world premiere of Robert Strizich’s Mirrored, a visionary new microtonal American work commissioned for Lux Musica and the Baroque Festival by San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. A meet-the-artists reception for subscribers and donors follows.
7:30 PM
UC Santa Cruz Recital Hall
Meyer Drive, UCSC Campus, Santa Cruz.
$23/$17/$6/$3 ($3 parking charge)
Tickets, 831-457-9693 or www.scbaroque.org
Tish Berlin, Shira Kammen, and Peter Maund
“A Musical Smorgasbord” a workshop for instrumentalists and singers with Shira Kammen, vielle; Tish Berlin, recorder; and Peter Maund, percussion. Choose from many tasty musical styles and favors, including motets and songs by Ciconia, settings of Suzanne ung jour, music about and for Queen Elizabeth I, motets and chansons by Josquin des Prez, songs and instrumental music of medieval Europe and other far-flung places, percussion classes, and music from the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Singers and instrumentalists (including percussion!) welcome. Workshop pitch is A=440.
10 AM to 5 PM (bring a lunch)
Arlington Community Church
52 Arlington Ave., Kensington
Workshop tuition: $125 ($220 for both days)
Download and mail form with your check to Tish Berlin at 806 Washington Ave., Albany CA 94706
Information at 510-882-1169 or [email protected]
Slavyanka Chorus
“Russian Spirit, Russian Land” Sacred hymns and secular songs from Russia’s timeless musical traditions. The concert will feature ancient monastic chants, rousing Cossack songs, and liturgical hymns from some of Russia’s greatest composers (known and unknown), much of it almost never heard outside Russia. Some of the least known Russian choral music is sacred music from the 17th and 18th centuries. As Russia opened the doors to outside cultural influences under Peter the Great, composers began all sorts of new experiments in bringing new European musical innovations to the ancient traditions of medieval Russian church music. These experiments laid the musical foundations for the more familiar work of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and others in the late 19th century, and the early 20th century writing of Chesnokov and Rachmaninov.
3 PM
First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto
1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto
$18/$20
Tickets 510-798-7966
[email protected]
Sunday, May 3
American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas, Conductor
“Bach, Vivaldi, & Leo” This program of vocal and instrumental works includes countertenor Ian Howell performing J.S. Bach’s solo cantata Gott soll allein mein Herze haben (“God alone shall have my heart”) and Vivaldi’s psalm setting Nisi Dominus, originally composed for an extraordinary soloist in his Venetian ensemble at the Ospedale della Pietà. Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major, Bach’s virtuosic tour through French dance forms, will showcase the magnificent instrumental forces of ABS. Another highlight will be the opportunity to hear the 2015 Jeffrey Thomas Award recipient, Gretchen Claassen, performing Leonardo Leo’s Concerto for Violoncello in A Major. Last but hardly least is Bach’s beloved Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, with soloists Elizabeth Blumenstock and Cynthia Black.
4 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco
$27–$66
Tickets, 415-621-7900, [email protected]
Tish Berlin, Shira Kammen, and Peter Maund
“A Musical Smorgasbord” a workshop for instrumentalists and singers with Shira Kammen, vielle; Tish Berlin, recorder; and Peter Maund, percussion. Choose from many tasty musical styles & favors, including motets and songs by Ciconia, settings of Suzanne ung jour, music about and for Queen Elizabeth I, motets and chansons by Josquin des Prez, songs and instrumental music of medieval Europe and other far-flung places, percussion classes, and music from the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Singers and instrumentalists (including percussion!) welcome. Workshop pitch is A=440.
1:30–5 PM
Arlington Community Church
52 Arlington Ave., Kensington
Workshop tuition: $110 ($220 for both days)
Download and mail form with your check to Tish Berlin at 806 Washington Ave., Albany CA 94706
Information at 510-882-1169 or [email protected]
Slavyanka Chorus
“Russian Spirit, Russian Land” Sacred hymns and secular songs from Russia’s timeless musical traditions. The concert will feature ancient monastic chants, rousing Cossack songs, and liturgical hymns from some of Russia’s greatest composers (known and unknown), much of it almost never heard outside Russia. Some of the least known Russian choral music is sacred music from the 17th and 18th centuries. As Russia opened the doors to outside cultural influences under Peter the Great, composers began all sorts of new experiments in bringing new European musical innovations to the ancient traditions of medieval Russian church music. These experiments laid the musical foundations for the more familiar work of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and others in the late 19th century, and the early 20th century writing of Chesnokov and Rachmaninov.
3 PM
Glaser Center
547 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa
$18/$20
Tickets 510-798-7966
[email protected]
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