Early Music News

Rejoice, Greatly!

It is always a treat when our concert series presents the splendor of a full baroque chamber orchestra, and our December presentation—a one-time-only event on Friday evening, December 13—will be something special, featuring one of the first and most...

A Pre-Winter’s Afternoon Dream

On Saturday, December 7, the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will present a concert at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley Street in Palo Alto, starting at 2:00 p.m.  The program will feature selections from Henry Purcell’s incidental music to A...

Bolivian Baroque

Sacred song from the selva SFEMS’ Sunday afternoon series at the California Jazz Conservatory opens on October 20, with a new ensemble “Beneath a Tree” performing some rarely heard music from the Jesuit missions of eastern Bolivia. One of the...

Roses & Almonds

Music of life & love, food & drink, nature & spirituality, adventure & humor The SFEMS concert series resumes the weekend before Thanksgiving with a cornucopia of music from medieval Spain. The concert will be a joint performance by...

SFEMS 2019 Annual Meeting

New Board Elected, Robert Cole Honored The San Francisco Early Music Society held its annual membership meeting at Berkeley’s Musical Offering café and record store on Sunday evening, September 15. After some pleasant socializing, lubricated with...

Fall Classes with Tish Berlin

Tish Berlin will be offering two classes in September and October. The classes take place on Tuesdays, from September 24 through October 22, at Tish’s home in Albany. The first class, “Church and Chamber: French Psalm Settings and...