New Esterházy Expounds 18th-c. Home Entertainment You have just seen a magnificent opera on the big stage, and can’t wait to hear that one aria again, or share it with your friend who couldn’t go. In this day and age, YouTube and Spotify are never...
Winter’s What Me Worry? The end of the holidays—whether marked by the new year, Epiphany, back to work, or running out of cookies—returns us to winter’s darker realities, though in the Bay Area these are never entirely dark. Winter is when...
The New Esterházy Quartet present the 9th episode in their popular “Haydn and His Students” series the weekend of January 6–8, with performances in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Palo Alto. Their program will feature Haydn’s Quartet in A, Op. 55, No...
A German Madrigal, a Spanish Salad and a Norwegian Fjord by Thomas Axworthy The somewhat unusual title of this article also describes a workshop I will be presenting in the San Francisco Bay Area this coming January, and the music featured will...
The 2016–2017 collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory resumes on Sunday, January 15, with the return of Flauti Diversi, who will perform an unusual program entitled “Españoleta.” The concert features early music from the...
A look at this week’s Calendar of Early Music shows the central role SFEMS Affiliates play in the Bay Area’s early music scene. The Affiliate Program offers assistance to local and regional organizations that share the Society’s commitment to music...
The Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will hold its first meeting of the 2016–17 season from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 14, at Trinity Church, Angus Hall, 330 Ravenswood Ave (corner of Laurel) Menlo Park. All those who play recorder...
The Marin Headlands Workshop is coming up soon. This year’s session runs from Friday through Sunday, May 13–15. In many ways the Bay Area’s premier workshop, this much anticipated event was founded many years ago by the Marin Recorder...
by Jonathan Harris Is it possible this is the 30th anniversary of the Singers’ Retreat? By which I really mean, is it possible I was at the first one? That was the same year I attended my first SFEMS workshops, so it’s more than possible. I recall...
This week, Berkeley Baroque Strings, directed by Kati Kyme, will be giving two performances at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, on Tuesday, March 1, and Sunday, March 6. The program features the “Cantata” Concerto in D with William Skeen...