Wednesday, April 1
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, April 3
Barefoot Chamber Concerts
“Haydn’s The Seven Last Words for Easter” The New Esterházy Quartet (Lisa Weiss and Kati Kyme, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; and William Skeen, cello) give a special performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ With homilies read by Dean Emeritus Alan Jones of Grace Cathedral. Commissioned in 1783 for the Good Friday service in the Oratorio de la Sancta Cueva in Cadiz, Haydn’s Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze has no parallel in the string quartet repertoire. The work consists of a prelude, then seven slow movements, each written to correspond to one of the seven last words of Jesus Christ on the cross, and finally, a musical depiction of an earthquake. In keeping with the original performance, the music is separated by brief readings reflecting the words Christ spoke. Following the practice of the original performance, the event will start at 10 PM. Seven candles will be lit. At the conclusion of each section, a candle will be extinguished and the event will conclude in darkness.
10 PM
Hillside Swedenborgian Church
1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito
$15 general, $13 seniors/students/SFEMS members
18 and under admitted free and welcome.
Tickets at the door or reserve in advance online.
Our Lady of Peace Church & Shrine
Good Friday Concert, featuring Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Performed by the Camerata Moresca Chamber Ensemble, Bernadette Arnold, Music Director, with soloists Jennifer Paulino, soprano; and Celeste Winant, mezzo- soprano.
9:30 PM
Our Lady of Peace Church & Shrine
2800 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara
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