Harvey Malloy Reflects on What Early Music Has Meant and Means As this Berkeley Festival year draws to a close and the Society’s 40th regular concert season continues, we are looking back on the various paths that have led us to early music...
Robert Mealy Talks About Early Music and SFEMS As the San Francisco Early Music Society enters its fifth decade, anticipating and already planning new projects, we look back on the past 40 year to reflect on how we have created this wonderful...
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...
Joining Archetti Baroque Strings for their SFEMS performances the weekend of December 9–11 are two distinguished soloists, soprano Clara Rottsalk and baroque trumpeter Kathryn Adduci. Ms. Rottsalk already is familiar to Bay Area audiences and...
Festive Music for Soprano, Trumpet, and Strings The weekend of December 9–11, SFEMS’ holiday concert presents another in our region’s most distinguished early music groups, the dynamic Archetti Baroque String Ensemble. Archetti will be...
by Gesine Lohr Alameda’s 22nd Annual Sing-It-Yourself Messiah will be hosted this year by St. Joseph Basilica, 1109 Chestnut Street (just off the corner of Encinal), Alameda, CA 94501, on Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. We will be presenting...
This Time, It’s The Whole Thing Bring your voices and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Schola Cantorum’s sing-along of Handel’s beloved Messiah, Monday, December 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. For this...
MPRO’s December Concert On Sunday, December 11, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley Street in Palo Alto, at 2:30 p.m. The program will feature the canzona La Spiritata by Giovanni...
by Anthony Martin This Saturday, November 19, violinist Anthony Martin and harpsichordist Katherine Heater collaborate on an astonishingly rich and diverse concert of old and new music. Their program will include everything from J.S. and C.P.E. Bach...