The 2016–2017 collaboration between SFEMS and the California Jazz Conservatory continues on Sunday, February 19, with the return of Laudami, in a program of Italian and Italianate baroque music. Experience the wildly dazzling improvisational...
Mark your calendars! The Renaissance Singers Retreat will meet March 18–19, 2017 to start our 31st year. We will be singing a selection of Renaissance music conducted by Professor William P. Mahrt of Stanford. We have often sung the ordinary of the...
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...
Thanks for sharing your favorite memories and thoughts on what you love most about SFEMS’ early music programs and activities. We are happy to announce that Bill Lazar is the winner of our drawing and will receive two tickets to an upcoming...
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...
Instrumental music by Handel, Rameau, and Bach For our January concerts, SFEMS welcomes back one of the newer American early music ensembles, one that deservedly has earned praise both here in its home town (New York City), and which we expect will...
Randy Matamoros reflects on 25 years with SFEMS As the year 2016 nears its end, we are looking back at the experiences of our members, past and present, who have participated in and helped to build SFEMS and the Bay Area’s early music community...
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...
by Jonathan Harris In her just-published interview, former SFEMS President Priscilla Winslow mentions the vocal-instrumental collegium Ken Johnson gave some 25 years ago, which she and I both attended. Her remembrance inspires me to share this story...
Frances Feldon and Priscilla Winslow on a Quarter Century of Early Music We continue our series on the paths that have led us to early music and the role SFEMS has played in our musical development. Frances Feldon and Priscilla Winslow have been...