FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO CALIFORNIA June 4 @ 7:30 pm, 2022 June, 5 @ 3:00 pm, 2022 John Michael Boyer, conductor Byzantine Chant and Polyphony Choral works by Michael Damis (1929-2013), Theodore Bogdanos (1932-2019), Steven Cardiasmenos (b. 1958), Frank Desby (1922-92), Peter Michaelides (1930-2017), and Tikey Zes (b. 1927) Follow a 1000-year journey of Byzantine chant, …
Led by Marylin Winkle, the UCLA Early Music Ensemble presents “Intersecting Climate and Historical Performance.” Music by a dozen composers and sources, from the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria to Isabella Leonarda and Handel. Admission is free. Donations welcome. The concert will also be livestreamed on the EMA YouTube Channel EMA's 2022 Young Performers Festival …
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USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, singers and instrumentalists, perform “‘Een nye liet’: Crossing Boundaries in Early-Modern Song and Dance (ca. 1450-1650).” Admission is free. Donations welcome. The concert will also be livestreamed on the EMA YouTube Channel. EMA's 2022 Young Performers Festival is presented as part of the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition. Each concert will take …
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San Francisco Conservatory Baroque Ensemble, in small ensembles, play six composers, from Gabrieli and Isabella Leonarda to the more obscure Gottfried Finger, his Sonata for Three Violins and Continuo, Op. 1, No. 9. Admission is free. Donations welcome. The concert will also be livestreamed on the EMA YouTube Channel. EMA’s 2022 Young Performers Festival is …
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Members of Juilliard415, in small ensembles, offer a program of “Chamber Music from Dresden, Leipzig, and Paris” including Zelenka, J.S. Bach, Visée, and Marais. Admission is free. Donations welcome. The concert will also be livestreamed on the EMA YouTube Channel. EMA’s 2022 Young Performers Festival is presented as part of the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition. Each …
The 2022 Spring season of Midtown Concerts continues with a fabulous line-up of artists. Both in-person in New York City and live streaming to YouTube. 1:15 – 2:00 pm All concerts are free; no tickets or reservations are necessary. In person at The Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E 29th St, New York City Live …
EMA’s 2022 Emerging Artists Showcase is presented as part of the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition. PURCHASE TICKETS Patricia Garcia Gil (fortepiano), Greensboro, NC “The idea is to portray the several nuances of ‘Enlightening figures.’ On one hand is the historical time marked by the desire for equality and progressive universal access to culture that …
Long & Away presents a brand new program for voices and viols celebrating the many delights of spring! This tour of 16th-c. Europe features works by Lassus, Senfl, Marenzio and others that explore age old themes of love, nature, dancing, and drinking. You'll hear morning birdsong, nighttime meditations, rarefied musings on love, and rustic songs …
Long & Away presents a brand new program for voices and viols celebrating the many delights of spring! This tour of 16th-c. Europe features works by Lassus, Senfl, Marenzio and others that explore age old themes of love, nature, dancing, and drinking. You'll hear morning birdsong, nighttime meditations, rarefied musings on love, and rustic songs …
Members of Seven Times Salt join the Henry Purcell Society of Boston and conductor Ian Watson in a semi-staged performance of the incidental theatre music from William Davenant's Restoration-era production of Macbeth. This collaboration includes works by Eccles, Locke, Purcell and more, along with traditional Scottish and Scottish “inspired” music from the same period. Our …
Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble will present a lavish polychoral concert of music by Venetian masters Claudio Monteverdi, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, and others, featuring the singers and soloists of Jouyssance, plus cornettos, sackbuts and strings.
SEATTLE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA For All Our Sisters Early Music Seattle presents Global Connections Seattle Baroque Orchestra The stories of women from antiquity resonate through our times. In this program, local composer Aaron Grad (the creator of the electric theorbo concerto Strange Seasons) returns for a program featuring soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah and an ensemble of Rachell Ellen …
Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble will present a lavish polychoral concert of music by Venetian masters Claudio Monteverdi, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, and others, featuring the singers and soloists of Jouyssance, plus cornettos, sackbuts and strings.
Members of STS join the Henry Purcell Society of Boston and conductor Ian Watson in a semi-staged performance of the incidental theatre music from William Davenant's Restoration-era production of Macbeth. This collaboration includes works by Eccles, Locke, Purcell and more, along with traditional Scottish and Scottish “inspired” music from the same period. Our production features …
The 2022 Spring season of Midtown Concerts continues with a fabulous line-up of artists. Both in-person in New York City and live streaming to YouTube. 1:15 – 2:00 pm All concerts are free; no tickets or reservations are necessary. In person at The Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E 29th St, New York City Live …
Welcome back! In the opening concert of the 42nd summer season of five concerts June 19-26, 2022, Elizabeth Blumenstock leads the Festival Orchestra in Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Major BWV 1061 (Ian Pritchard, Matthew Dirst), Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor (Blumenstock, Jolianne Einem), and the Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 42; …
Works by some of the composers Tempesta helped revive during its first 20 seasons: Johann Fasch, Johann Janitsch, François Couperin, plus a premiere by our current "rediscovery", Georg Reutter.
Houston-based conductor, organist and harpsichordist Matthew Dirst gives a solo recital on both instruments as the second of five concerts in this year's Festival in airy venues in the Newport Beach area. His rich and varied program includes a J.S. Bach Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, and C.P.E. Bach’s La Folía (folly or madness) variations. Matthew’s playing has …
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An entire evening in atmospheric Sherman Gardens Corona del Mar of brilliant solo concertos by Bach, Vivaldi and others, plus Telemann’s Triple Concerto in E Major for flute, oboe d’amore and viola d’amore. Platti, Giovanni Benedetto (1696-1763): Oboe Concerto in G Minor Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056 Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in G …
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The 2022 Spring season of Midtown Concerts continues with a fabulous line-up of artists. Both in-person in New York City and live streaming to YouTube. 1:15 – 2:00 pm All concerts are free; no tickets or reservations are necessary. In person at The Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E 29th St, New York City Live …
Elizabeth Blumenstock and friends Jolianne Einem (violin), Rob Diggins (viola), Leif Woodward (cell0, Stephen Stubbs (lutes/baroque guitar), Peter Maund (percussion) and Ian Pritchard (harpsichord) perform lively dances from Austria to the melting pot of cultures that was the Baroque-era New World, plus everywhere in between, including suites by Schmelzer and Marini, traditional medleys from the …
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A celebratory afternoon of virtuoso arias, duets, dances and an overture from three of Handel’s finest operas: Ariodante, Giulio Cesare and Rodelinda, plus the Concerto grosso Op.6, No.1. Soloists Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano, and Nicholas Burns, countertenor, join the Festival Orchestra led by Elizabeth Blumenstock. Followed by a private supper for subscribers' catered by Suzanne's Catering, Huntington Beach. Come early …
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In Dirges Sad Delight is a rumination on death, on sorrow, on what lies beyond this material veil. The poets and composers of 17th-century England returned time and again to these themes, through both sacred and secular works, examining the purgation of the soul at its passing, and the effects of death upon those still …
In Dirges Sad Delight is a rumination on death, on sorrow, on what lies beyond this material veil. The poets and composers of 17th-century England returned time and again to these themes, through both sacred and secular works, examining the purgation of the soul at its passing, and the effects of death upon those still …
The 2022 Spring season of Midtown Concerts continues with a fabulous line-up of artists. Both in-person in New York City and live streaming to YouTube. 1:15 – 2:00 pm All concerts are free; no tickets or reservations are necessary. In person at The Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E 29th St, New York City Live …
In Dirges Sad Delight is a rumination on death, on sorrow, on what lies beyond this material veil. The poets and composers of 17th-century England returned time and again to these themes, through both sacred and secular works, examining the purgation of the soul at its passing, and the effects of death upon those still …
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