Barefoot Chamber Concerts and MusicSources are combining to present a very special event: the legendary Paolo Pandolfo (the Yo-Yo Ma of the viola da gamba) with 3 of his closest collaborators playing a concert of music for Louis XIV, entitled “Paris...
The SFEMS-CJC series continues on Sunday, February 18, with Ensemble Bizarria looking at the complexities and vulnerabilities of one of our greatest and most beloved musical icons. Lindsey Strand-Polyak, violin; Evan Hesketh, viola; and Alexa Haynes...
by Debra Nagy The SFEMS concert season continues the weekend of March 2 with three performances by Ohio-based Les Délices (Debra Nagy, baroque oboe; Julie Andrijeski and Adriane Post, violins; Emily Walhout, viola da gamba; and Mark Edwards...
[From the archives. A version of this article appeared in the January 2003 issue of the Early Music News.] Howard Kadis Discusses the Future of the Musical Offering If Berkeley’s Musical Offering is indeed the last independent classical CD store in...
The madrigal was to Monteverdi what the symphony was to Haydn and the string quartet was to Beethoven: a form of endless inventiveness and a crucible of experimentation. Inexorably bound to the vital tradition of Petrarchan lyric poetry, the...
Kathy Cochran, friend of the Bay Area early music community for more than three decades, passed away last Saturday, January 20, following a struggle with an aggressive cancer. Kathy was a generous supporter of SFEMS and attended many of our...
The San Francisco chapter of the ARS (SFRS) announces its 14th annual workshop day for recorders of all sizes, “Bohemian Rhapsody—Music of Germany and Eastern Europe.” The workshop, directed by Louise Carslake and Hanneke van Proosdij, will take...
What does early music mean to you? How do these artifacts of wood and brass channeling ancient voices speak to you in the here and now? Perhaps you had an epiphany hearing a familiar piece with a new clarity or transparency revealed through...
The aftermath of war has complex and widely varied cultural reverberations, as people reckon with physical destruction and emotional loss, shock and exhaustion, as well as relief and the fervent hope for peace. The art which emerges in the ashes of...
An English Country Garden of Music The SFEMS-CJC series resumes on Sunday, January 21, with the Alphabet Baroque Club, who will perform a charming concert of (mostly) British composers, with some commentary on British music and composers and their...