Tuesday, January 6
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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Wednesday, January 7
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, January 9
Barefoot Chamber Concerts
“King Charles’ Delight; early 17th-century English music for viols and organ” Peter Hallifax and Julie Jeffrey, viols, with Andy Canepa, organ, perform early 17th century English music for viols and organ. King Charles I (he of the unpalatable politics but impeccable style) loved and played the viol, and hired the best viol players and composers. Until the civil war drained the treasury, and eventually curtailed his reign (and in fact curtailed him), Charles’ lavish patronage created some of the best chamber music England has ever produced. This program brings together the music of three of the most inventive of these legendary court viol player/composers: Coperario, Jenkins and Lawes, with duo divisions by Christopher Simpson, who, a generation later, became the most revered viol player of the 17th century. There will be snacks. Oh yes.
6 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Tickets $15 general, $13 seniors/students/SFEMS members
18 and under admitted free and welcome.
Tickets online or at the door
Ensemble Vermillian
Margaret Carpenter soprano; Frances Blaker, recorders; David Wilson, violin; Barbara Krumdieck, cello; and Nicolas Haigh, organ, perform 17th-century German music, including works of H.I.F. Biber, Dieterich Buxtehude, Christoph Bernhard, and Johann Rosenmüller.
7:30 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St., San Francisco
$20/$15
510-549-4670
Sonoma Bach
“Il Ragazzo” Baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock leads the Live Oak Baroque Orchestra with countertenor Clifton Massey perform music to warm up a winter’s evening with songs by celebrated castrato Carlo Broschi (“Farinelli”) including “Al dolor che vo sfogando;” Concerto No. 5 in E minor for strings, from Sinfonie da Camera a Tre Istromenti Op 2 by Nicola Porpora (Farinelli’s teacher); and “L’Estate” (Summer) from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
8 PM BachGrounder lecture at 7:25 PM
Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center, Sonoma State University
1801 E Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park
General $22, Seniors $20, Students $14 First 25 Sonoma State University students with valid ID get in Free!
Tickets [email protected], 877-914-2224, www.sonomabach.org
South Bay Recorder Society
Monthly meeting, guest conductor Joyce Johnson-Hamilton. 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, January 10
Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, Ming Luke, Director
J.S. Bach, St. John Passion. With soloists Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Danielle Reutter-Harrah, mezzo soprano; Brian Thorsett, tenor; Jeffrey Fields, baritone; and Paul Thompson, bass.
4:30 PM
Berkeley Community Theater
1930 Allston Way, Berkeley
FREE and open to the public.
510-433-9599; [email protected]
Ensemble Vermillian
Margaret Carpenter soprano; Frances Blaker, recorders; David Wilson, violin; Barbara Krumdieck, cello; and Nicolas Haigh, organ, perform 17th-century German music, including works of H.I.F. Biber, Dieterich Buxtehude, Christoph Bernhard, and Johann Rosenmüller.
7:30 PM
Hillside Swedenborgian Church
1422 Navellier, El Cerrito
$20/$15
510-549-4670
Viola da Gamba Society/Pacifica Chapter
Monthly viol consort playing with guest coach Elisabeth Reed. Players of all levels welcome. Newcomers please phone ahead.
9 AM–3 PM
Hillside Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito
RSVP. Please email or phone ahead.
[email protected], 831-420-1618
Sunday, January 11
Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, Ming Luke, Director
J.S. Bach, St. John Passion. With soloists Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Danielle Reutter-Harrah, mezzo soprano; Brian Thorsett, tenor; Jeffrey Fields, baritone; and Paul Thompson, bass.
4:30 PM
Berkeley Community Theater
1930 Allston Way, Berkeley
FREE and open to the public.
510-433-9599; [email protected]
Flauti Diversi
“Music in the Garden of Delight: The Kinship of Medieval Dance and Arabic Music.” Frances Feldon, recorders & medieval flute; Peter Maund, percussion; Sarah Michael, qanun & tarhu; Gary Haggerty, oud & tarhu; Karolyn Stonefelt, percussion; and Roy Whelden, vielle, perform a program combining medieval instrumental dance music and traditional classical Arabic music on early instruments, showing the common building blocks of these musical traditions. Read more . . .
4:30 PM
California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison St, Berkeley
$15/$12
Tickets, 510-845-5373 or [email protected].
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