Friday, May 15
Sonoma Bach
“The Italian Madrigal: Petrarca, Tasso, Guarini” Sonoma Bach’s chamber choir, Circa 1600, directed by Robert Worth, performs dazzling madrigals with music by Luca Marenzio, Claudio Monteverdi, Giaches de Wert, Filippe de Monte, and Carlo Gesualdo, setting texts by three great Italian poets: Francesco Petrarca (the great pioneer of Italian vernacular poetry) and two late 16th-century authors from Ferrara: Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini.
8 PM BachGrounder at 7:25 PM
Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center
1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park
$22/$20/$14
Tickets online
Friday–Sunday, May 15–17
Marin Headlands Workshop
East Bay Recorder Society presents its annual workshop for recorders (beginning to advanced levels) at the Point Bonita YMCA in the Marin Headlands, with beautiful views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Pacific Ocean, and San Francisco. This year’s featured instructors and coaches include Tish Berlin, Tom Bickley, Louise Carslake, Frances Feldon, Adam Gilbert, Rotem Gilbert, Michelle Levy, and David Morris. Full and partial attendance possible.
Friday evening through Sunday afternoon.
Point Bonita YMCA in the Marin Headlands
Golden Gate Recreation Area, Marin Co.
Fees: Weekend $280; Weekend without lodging $210; Partial Weekend $190; Saturday $120. Fees increase $10 after May 1.
Registration form Information [email protected]
Saturday, May 16
The Albany Consort
A program of celebratory Jewish music from the 17th and 18th centuries, including a virtuoso cello sonata by Giacobbe Cervetto, a cantata in celebration of a circumcision by Louis Saladin, plus works of Salamone Rossi, Abraham de Caceres, and Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti. With soloists, chorus and orchestra.
8 PM
Christian Science Organization
2601 Durant, Berkeley
$30/$25/$20
Tickets
MUSA
“Art Inspiring Art II” MUSA (Emily Botel-Barnard, violin; Gretchen Claassen, viola da gamba, cello; Laura Gaynon, viola da gamba, cello; Addi Liu, violin; Joshua Romatowski, flute; Derek Tam, harpsichord) performs the second installment of “Art Inspiring Art,” an ongoing project to commission new works based on baroque masterpieces from emerging composers across the country. This concert premieres a new work of Los Angeles-based Andrew McIntosh (title TBA) based on Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris Quartets. The program also will include selections from Telemann’s Paris Quartets.
8 PM
Most Holy Redeemer Church
110 Diamond St., San Francisco
Donation
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Sunday, May 17
MusicSources
Preethi de Silva, Fortepiano, performs “Für Kenner und Liebhaber: Works by C.P.E. Bach.” Distinguished fortepianist Preethi de Silva has devoted a lifetime to the demanding music of C.P.E. Bach. She has also recorded a very large portion of his work and introduced many audiences worldwide to this quixotic repertoire. Join us in this rare performance of musical treasures that influenced many later generations into the romantic period.
5 PM
St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman Street, Berkeley
$30 non members, $25 MusicSources members and seniors, $10 students 18 yrs. or younger
510-528-1685 or
[email protected]
Sonoma Bach
“The Italian Madrigal: Petrarca, Tasso, Guarini” Sonoma Bach’s chamber choir, Circa 1600, directed by Robert Worth, performs dazzling madrigals with music by Luca Marenzio, Claudio Monteverdi, Giaches de Wert, Filippe de Monte, and Carlo Gesualdo, setting texts by three great Italian poets: Francesco Petrarca (the great pioneer of Italian vernacular poetry) and two late 16th-century authors from Ferrara: Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini.
8 PM BachGrounder at 7:25 PM
Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center
1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park
$22/$20/$14
Tickets online
MUSA
“Art Inspiring Art II” MUSA (Emily Botel-Barnard, violin; Gretchen Claassen, viola da gamba, cello; Laura Gaynon, viola da gamba, cello; Addi Liu, violin; Joshua Romatowski, flute; Derek Tam, harpsichord) performs the second installment of “Art Inspiring Art,” an ongoing project to commission new works based on baroque masterpieces from emerging composers across the country. This concert premieres a new work of Los Angeles-based Andrew McIntosh (title TBA) based on Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris Quartets. The program also will include selections from Telemann’s Paris Quartets.
4:30 PM
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
1501 Washington, Albany
$20
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