Monday, September 28
Stanford Early Music Faculty
Gala Concert, featuring Robert Huw Morgan, Elaine Thornburgh, and Kelly Savage, keyboards; Herb Myers, curtal, viola, recorder, & flute; Anthony Martin, violin; Greer Ellison, flute; John Dornenburg, viola da gamba, and the Early Music Singers, directed by William Mahrt. The program features music from French, Italian, German, and English composers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including works of Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Merula, Castello, St. Colombe, Telemann, Locke, Couperin, Handel, and Guillemain.
7:30 PM
Memorial Church (side chapel)
450 Serra Mall, Stanford University
Free admission
Sponsored by the Office for Religious Life and the Department of Music
Tuesday, September 29
POSTPONED — San Francisco Early Music Society
SFEMS Annual Membership Meeting. President’s annual report, nomination and election of new Directors, Affiliates’ and members’ forum, and planning for the 2016 Berkeley Festival are some of the agenda. Refreshments.
To be rescheduled soon.
7–8:15 PM
The Musical Offering
2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Free and open to all members
Information: 510-528-1725, [email protected]
Friday, October 2
East Bay Chapter, ARS
Monthly meeting, guest conductor Louise Carslake. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10 PM
Zion Lutheran Church
5201 Park Blvd., Oakland.
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South Bay Recorder Society
Monthly meeting, guest conductor David Barnett. 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, October 3
Prescott Lectures
“The Glories of Renaissance and Baroque Keyboard Music” John Prescott, Ph.D., presents a series of talks on the development of keyboard music from its beginnings in late Renaissance Italy, England, and Spain, through the baroque, to the era of Haydn and Mozart. Day 4: “Domenico Scarlatti: the Chopin of the Baroque.” Scarlatti is the only major baroque composer for whom the great majority of music is for solo keyboard. An Italian who lived in Spain for many years, he incorporated the fire and spicy dissonance of Spanish guitar music into his more than six hundred sonatas. Read more . . .
1–3:30 PM
St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman St., Berkeley
$25 per session ($20 SFEMS members), $100/$85 full course
[email protected]
Sunday, October 4
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Conductor
Alessandro Scarlatti, La gloria di primavera, the American premiere of a serenata not heard in the western hemisphere for nearly 300 years. With soloists Suzana Ograjenšek, soprano; Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano; Clint van der Linde, countertenor; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Douglas Williams, baritone; and members of the Philharmonia Chorale
7:30 PM
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
$25–$105
Tickets
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