From Franco-Flemish Love Song to Swedish Children’s Television
On Saturday, December 6, 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 settings of “Farewell my love” by Francisco Guerrero and Josquin des Pres, an arrangement for recorders of the theme music from a popular Swedish children’s program, a pair of dances by the 16th-century Italian composer Giorgio Mainerio, two passepieds from the Orchestral Suite No. 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and two concertos: one by Telemann for recorders and basso continuo and the other by the 17th-century Polish composer Adam Jarzebski, featuring bassoon soloist Gregor Dairaghi. The location of this concert is wheelchair accessible.
The Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra is an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society. For further information please see the orchestra’s web page at http://mpro-online.org/ or call Frederic Palmer at 650-591-3648.
