Tuesday, January 3
Sacramento Recorder Society
Regular meeting for recorder players, with guest conductor Jerry Schwartz. 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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Friday, January 6
Barefoot Chamber Concerts
“Fine Knacks: Elizabethan and Jacobean Inventions” Our January concert will be the fabulous Barefoot house band, viol players Peter Hallifax & Julie Jeffrey, with special guest Shira Kammen, violin and viola. They will play a varied program of Elizabethan and Jacobean music, including works of Dowland, Gibbons, Hume, Coperario, Lupo, and more. Some of the music will be written down, and some of it won’t. Hallifax & Jeffrey, who started out as a duo playing late French baroque music, have been developing a repertoire of Elizabethan and Jacobean music for several years now. Along this path, they have played many concerts of this music with larger groups featuring Bay Area icon Shira Kammen, but this is the first time the trio has presented an entire program. It will be varied and exciting, since there are so many great fantasies and dances in 3 parts from this period, not to mention the eccentric pieces by Tobias Hume for 3 instruments, and limitless dance pieces with divisions. You will recognize a lot of the music, but there’s a lot you won’t have heard before.
6 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
All tickets $15 18 and under admitted free and welcome.
Tickets at the door or reserve online (recommended) at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2594736/
510-220-1195
Hillside Club Concert Series
“Haydn and His Students IX” The New Esterházy Quartet present the 9th episode in their popular “Haydn and His Students” series. The program features Haydn’s Quartet in A, Op. 55, No. 1; Beethoven’s Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2; and William Shield’s Quartet No. 3 in C. William Shield (1748–1829) was one of London’s leading theatrical composers in the later 18th century. His Rosina of 1782 was performed over 200 times by the end of the century. Shield was also principal viola in the house band of the King’s Theatre, and house composer at Covent Garden. It was there that he met Haydn. They became good friends, and Shield referred to Haydn as “the Father of Modern Harmony” in his book An Introduction to Harmony. After a Handel festival in London in June of 1791, they traveled together into the countryside, and Shield reported of this excursion that in four days in Haydn’s company he learned more than he had done by study in any four years of his life. Read more . . .
8PM
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street (at Spruce), Berkeley
$25
Tickets for this Friday concert sold only at the door
San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Katherine McKee, Director
Seventh Annual Boar’s Head Festival—A Celebration of 12th Night. Join San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Katherine McKee Music Director) for this 650 year old tradition celebrating Twelfth Night … Our Seventh Annual Boar’s Head Festival, 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 with audience-favorites Phantom of the Opera’s soprano Susan Gundunas joining us once again as our Queen and our dance troupe San Francisco Renaissance Dancers taking the stage as well. In addition to our sterling choristers performing the music of medieval through Contemporary England, this year Robin Hood and his band of Merrie Men (in the form of The Berkeley Morris Dancers) visit Her Majesty for an evening of hijinks, bawdy songs, and an entertaining surprise or two! 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!
7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Berkeley
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Tickets online $45 General, $40 Student/Senior, $25 Child Age 12 or under
415-650-6258
Saturday, January 7
East Bay Recorder Society
EBRS Twelfth Night party. The January meeting will be a potluck at the Hillside Community Church in El Cerrito. Most of us know where that is and know that it is one of our favorite venues. The doors will open at 3:00 pm with downbeat at 3:30. The ebullient Ms. Shira Kammen will be our conductor. Come prepared to have a very good time with her. We will break for our potluck at 5:30 or so and I am sure we will eat very well indeed. Please visit our “Join Us!” page for our membership form. But if you wish to attend for a first time as a non-member, it is free (with a $10 charge for addtional monthly meetings thereafter until you join).
3 PM onward. Potluck break at 5:30
Hillside Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito
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New Esterházy Quartet
“Haydn and His Students IX” The New Esterházy Quartet present the 9th episode in their popular “Haydn and His Students” series. The program features Haydn’s Quartet in A, Op. 55, No. 1; Beethoven’s Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2; and William Shield’s Quartet No. 3 in C. William Shield (1748–1829) was one of London’s leading theatrical composers in the later 18th century. His Rosina of 1782 was performed over 200 times by the end of the century. Shield was also principal viola in the house band of the King’s Theatre, and house composer at Covent Garden. It was there that he met Haydn. They became good friends, and Shield referred to Haydn as “the Father of Modern Harmony” in his book An Introduction to Harmony. After a Handel festival in London in June of 1791, they traveled together into the countryside, and Shield reported of this excursion that in four days in Haydn’s company he learned more than he had done by study in any four years of his life. Read more . . .
4PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
$30 (discounts for SFEMS members, seniors, and students)
415-520-0611 www.newesterhazy.org
San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Katherine McKee, Director
Seventh Annual Boar’s Head Festival—A Celebration of 12th Night. Join San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Katherine McKee Music Director) for this 650 year old tradition celebrating Twelfth Night … Our Seventh Annual Boar’s Head Festival, 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 with audience-favorites Phantom of the Opera’s soprano Susan Gundunas joining us once again as our Queen and our dance troupe San Francisco Renaissance Dancers taking the stage as well. In addition to our sterling choristers performing the music of medieval through Contemporary England, this year Robin Hood and his band of Merrie Men (in the form of The Berkeley Morris Dancers) visit Her Majesty for an evening of hijinks, bawdy songs, and an entertaining surprise or two! 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!
7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St. (at Gough) San Francisco
Tickets online $45 General, $40 Student/Senior, $25 Child Age 12 or under
415-650-6258
Sunday, January 8
Festival Consort
“Renaissance Glory” For the past forty years the Festival Consort has been entertaining audiences in the Bay Area. Some audience members come every year to celebrate the Christmas season in the historic all redwood 142 year old church. Well-known soprano Carol Menke and countertenor Chris Fritzsche join instrumentalists David Hogan Smith, Joanna Bramel Young, Alan Paul and Robert Cronin for a concert of traditional Christmas carols, songs by Dunstable, and glorious six-part works by Senfl, Altenburg, Hammerschmidt, and Josquin. Full consorts of recorders, crumhorns and schreyerpfeifen will play works by a variety of Renaissance composers. Other instruments played are the sackbut, Renaissance guitar, shawms, douçaine and curtals (renaissance bassoons). Two new curtals, the alto and tenor, will be making their debut this year. Also, the great bass recorder and crumhorn add their wonderful low notes to various ensembles. David Hogan Smith, author of a book on making renaissance reeds, makes reeds for and adjusts the crumhorns and schreyerpfeifen. Robert Cronin, well-known instrument builder, made the shawms and the bass curtal played in the Consort.
4 PM
Church of the Incarnation
550 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa
Tickets online $20
707-528-6370, [email protected], www.festival-consort.com
New Esterházy Quartet
“Haydn and His Students IX” The New Esterházy Quartet present the 9th episode in their popular “Haydn and His Students” series. The program features Haydn’s Quartet in A, Op. 55, No. 1; Beethoven’s Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2; and William Shield’s Quartet No. 3 in C. William Shield (1748–1829) was one of London’s leading theatrical composers in the later 18th century. His Rosina of 1782 was performed over 200 times by the end of the century. Shield was also principal viola in the house band of the King’s Theatre, and house composer at Covent Garden. It was there that he met Haydn. They became good friends, and Shield referred to Haydn as “the Father of Modern Harmony” in his book An Introduction to Harmony. After a Handel festival in London in June of 1791, they traveled together into the countryside, and Shield reported of this excursion that in four days in Haydn’s company he learned more than he had done by study in any four years of his life. Read more . . .
4PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church,
555 Waverley Street (at Hamilton), Palo Alto
$30 (discounts for SFEMS members, seniors, and students)
415-520-0611 www.newesterhazy.org
San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Katherine McKee, Director
Seventh Annual Boar’s Head Festival—A Celebration of 12th Night. Join San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Katherine McKee Music Director) for this 650 year old tradition celebrating Twelfth Night … Our Seventh Annual Boar’s Head Festival, 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 with audience-favorites Phantom of the Opera’s soprano Susan Gundunas joining us once again as our Queen and our dance troupe San Francisco Renaissance Dancers taking the stage as well. In addition to our sterling choristers performing the music of medieval through Contemporary England, this year Robin Hood and his band of Merrie Men (in the form of The Berkeley Morris Dancers) visit Her Majesty for an evening of hijinks, bawdy songs, and an entertaining surprise or two! 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. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
3 Bayview Ave., Belvedere
Tickets online $45 General, $40 Student/Senior, $25 Child Age 12 or under
415-650-6258
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