Tuesday, June 23
SFEMS Baroque Workshop
“Renaissance to Baroque: the Other Praetorius,” a lecture by Dr. Frederick K. Gable, professor of music emeritus at the University of California Riverside. Dr. Gable has spent four decades reconstructing the works of 17th-century German composer Hieronymus Praetorius.
6 PM
Guzman Lecture Hall, Dominican University
50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael
Donation requested
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Wednesday, June 24
SFEMS Baroque Workshop
“The Lutheran Inheritance” SFEMS Baroque Summer Workshop faculty (Rita Lilly, soprano; Justin Montigne, countertenor; David Wilson, violin; Mary Springfels, gamba; Elisabeth Le Guin, cello; Sandra Miller, traverso; Cléa Galhano, recorder; Stephen Escher, cornetto; Linda Pearse, bass sackbut; Sand Dalton, oboe; Anna Marsh, bassoon; Mara Galassi and Cheryl Fulton, harp; and Peter Sykes, keyboard) perform Lutheran Music from the 17th and 18th centuries, including works by Heinrich Schütz, Johann Schop, Johann Rosenmüller, J.S. Bach, G.P. Telemann, and their contemporaries.
7:30 PM
Guzman Lecture Hall, Dominican University
50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael
$20
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Friday, June 26
Marin Baroque, Daniel Canosa, Music Director
Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell. Music Director Daniel Canosa, Stage Director Marla Volovna. Thrill to the dramatic story of lovers found and lost. The Trojan prince Aeneas is shipwrecked in Carthage, where he and Queen Dido fall madly in love, but, alas, evil witches plot against them. With Christa Pfeiffer as Dido, Mark Bonney as Aeneas, and Rosemary Beecher Bryant as Belinda; and the Marin Baroque Chamber Choir and Orchestra, joined by the San Francisco Renaissance Dancers, directed by Jennifer Meller.
8 PM
First Presbyterian Church
72 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo
The setting is our outdoor courtyard theater, the perfect place for an intimate, magical theater experience! (Reminder: San Anselmo evenings can be cool so please dress accordingly.)
$35 general, $30 Seniors/Students, $5, children 10 and under
Buy tickets online, or call 415-497-6634
www.marinbaroque.org [email protected]
SFEMS Baroque Workshop
“Lutheran Sacred Music” Participants in the SFEMS Baroque Summer Workshop perform Lutheran chamber music on period instruments.
7:30 PM
Guzman Lecture Hall, Dominican University
50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael
Donation requested
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Saturday, June 27
Historical Harp Society
Concert in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Historical Harp Conference. Artists and works performed include Cheryl Ann Fulton, Sonata by Philippe-Jacques Meyer (1737–1819) performed on 18th-century Challiot crochet-action pedal harp, and pieces by J.S. Bach on triple harp; Mara Galassi, works by Alessandro Scarlatti and Jean Baptiste Bauer on single-action pedal harp; Cheryl and Mara, arias from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro arranged for single-action pedal harp duet; Vicente La Camera Mariño, traditional Irish music and music of Turlough O’Carolan (1670–1738) performed on clairseach (wire-strung Irish harp); The Red Dragon Harp Ensemble, directed by Cheryl Ann Fulton, with guest artist Mara Galassi, traditional Welsh Airs set in baroque and Classical styles and arranged for Welsh triple-harp ensemble.
7:30 PM
St. Albert’s Priory Chapel
6172 Chabot Road, Oakland
All tickets sold at door: General admission $15, children 12 and under free
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Marin Baroque, Daniel Canosa, Music Director
Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell. Music Director Daniel Canosa, Stage Director Marla Volovna. Thrill to the dramatic story of lovers found and lost. The Trojan prince Aeneas is shipwrecked in Carthage, where he and Queen Dido fall madly in love, but, alas, evil witches plot against them. With Christa Pfeiffer as Dido, Mark Bonney as Aeneas, and Rosemary Beecher Bryant as Belinda; and the Marin Baroque Chamber Choir and Orchestra, joined by the San Francisco Renaissance Dancers, directed by Jennifer Meller.
8 PM
First Presbyterian Church
72 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo
The setting is our outdoor courtyard theater, the perfect place for an intimate, magical theater experience! (Reminder: San Anselmo evenings can be cool so please dress accordingly.)
$35 general, $30 Seniors/Students, $5, children 10 and under
Buy tickets online, or call 415-497-6634
www.marinbaroque.org [email protected]
Sunday, June 28
Chalice Consort, Jeremy Summerly, Guest Director
“Window of a Pious Age” Chalice Consort (Rebekah Wu and Cecilia Lam, sopranos; Danielle Sampson and Meghan Spyker, altos; Michael Jankosky and Owen Smith, tenors; Tim Silva, baritone; and Mark Sumner, bass) with Jeremy Summerly, Royal Academy, London as Guest Director, perform works of John Sheppard and Simone Molinaro. This year, 2015, marks the assumed 500th anniversary of the birth of the English composer John Sheppard and the 400th anniversary of the death of the Italian composer Simone Molinaro. Sheppard worked in Oxford and in London and wrote gloriously expansive Latin-texted music for use at the court of Queen Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Molinaro’s professional life was colourful, not just because he wrote sensitively crafted vocal music, but because his uncle was murdered when he was Director of Music at Genoa Cathedral, and because Molinaro made editions of the music of Carol Gesualdo, an Italian nobleman who murdered his wife and her lover in cold blood. Both Sheppard and Molinaro embody the simultaneously decadent and fragile spirit of the Renaissance, and their music is a window on an age that was self-indulgently pious and viscerally concerned with ecclesiastical beauty.
5 PM
The Cathedral of Christ the Light
2121 Harrison St, Oakland
$15 advanced online ticket purchase; $20 at the door
Buy tickets online
415-269-3881, [email protected]
Historical Harp Society
Concert in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Historical Harp Conference. Artists and works performed include Catherine Stiles, 17th-century solo Italian works by Gregorio Strozzi, Kapsberger, and Piccinini performed on triple harp; Jennifer Sayre, 16th-century Spanish music by Antonio de Cabezón (1510–1566) performed on arpa de dos órdenes; Vicente La Camera Mariño, Scottish Renaissance music performed on gut-strung Renaissance harp, featuring pieces from Scottish lute manuscripts; Angelorum Medieval Harp Choir, directed by Cheryl Ann Fulton, arrangements of medieval melodies by Hildegard von Bingen and Frauenlob and from the Carmina Burana, and an Anglo-Norman rondellus for an ensemble of seven medieval harps.
3 PM
St. Albert’s Priory Chapel
6172 Chabot Road, Oakland
All tickets sold at door: General admission $15, children 12 and under free
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St. Paul’s Choir
Compline Service, featuring Gregorian chant, polyphony, and candlelight, in the church, with music of Byrd, Tallis, Victoria. Compline, a service of psalms and prayers, has been sung ‘at the close of day’ in monasteries, convents and churches for many centuries, and is one of the best-loved services of the Church. It has been re-instituted in response to the renewed interest in plainsong and contemplative prayer. There is no sermon.
8 PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
114 Montecito Ave., Oakland
Free
www.stpaulsoakland.org
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