This week’s SFEMS Baroque Workshop at Sonoma State University features several events open to the public. The real treat will be the Workshop Faculty Concert, “Water – Music’s Elixir,” taking place at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June...
Most early music lovers are familiar with Handel’s English pastoral opera, Acis and Galatea. But have you heard the 1708 Italian serenata, Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo? Handel’s Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo features daring, experimental sound colors from...
The Stanford Early Music Singers will present a concert in observance of the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450–1517), on Wednesday evening, May 24, 7:30 p.m. at the Stanford Memorial Church. Admission is free. The...
The 2016–2017 collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory concludes on Sunday, May 14, with a concert by Vajra Voices with medieval string specialist Shira Kammen and composer-cellist-vocalist, Theresa Wong. Their program...
Lee McRae, who died on June 1, 2016, was a major contributor to early music in the Bay Area and across the US for five decades. A founding member of SFEMS, Lee also founded or co-founded our Music Discovery Workshop and the Singers’ Retreat. Her...
Tish Berlin is offering two repertoire classes for recorder players from mid-May through mid-June. Class I, “The Purcell Connection” (for upper intermediate to advanced recorder players) will explore Italian and French influences on Purcell through...
John Prescott, Ph.D., will present another in his series of early music lecture courses in May—an entirely new series focusing on Mozart’s grand tour as a wunderkind, from 1763–66. The course runs Monday, May 1, through Friday, May 5, from...
Colombian Early Music Group Esfera Armoniosa to Make North American Debut One of early music’s great joys is the archeology it entails—the discovery and reconstrucion of lost musical worlds, and quite often bringing hidden treasures to light...
On Monday, May 8, contralto Karen R. Clark and cellist/gambist Elisabeth Reed present a special workshop, “Spring Into Motion: Celebrating the Life & Legacy of Moshe Feldenkrais (1904–1984).” This workshop offers an introduction the Feldenkrais...
On Saturday, May 6, 2017 the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1106 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Carlos at 2:00 p.m. The program will feature an antiphonal motet by Melchior Franck, three...