Marquise de Pompadour continued to sponsor concerts for the king long after they ceased to be lovers.
In honor of the 35th Season and by popular demand music director and founder J. Reilly Lewis and National Presbyterian’s glorious Skinner organ star in an all-Bach program built around the “Great Eighteen,”
Instructors Letitia Berlin and Frances Blaker will lead 16 players through intense technique and ensemble sessions during the day. The evenings include lectures, concerts and time to relax and play with congenial friends, old and new.The goal of this workshop is to give you the tools to raise your playing to a higher level.
Under Harry Christophers' expert hands, Haydn comes to life in a program that showcases one of his Paris Symphonies, The Bear, a festive and jubilant work commissioned by a Parisian orchestra in the 1780s.
Instructors Letitia Berlin and Frances Blaker will lead 16 players through intense technique and ensemble sessions during the day. The evenings include lectures, concerts and time to relax and play with congenial friends, old and new.The goal of this workshop is to give you the tools to raise your playing to a higher level.
Under Harry Christophers' expert hands, Haydn comes to life in a program that showcases one of his Paris Symphonies, The Bear, a festive and jubilant work commissioned by a Parisian orchestra in the 1780s.
First of two concerts presenting Tanya Tomkins performing the complete Cello Suites of Bach. Bruce Lamott will present a free lecture "Miracle on Four Strings" on Wed. February 20 at the Brisbane Library 250 Visitacion Ave. Brisbane CA
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Student/Senior.
Instructors Letitia Berlin and Frances Blaker will lead 16 players through intense technique and ensemble sessions during the day. The evenings include lectures, concerts and time to relax and play with congenial friends, old and new.The goal of this workshop is to give you the tools to raise your playing to a higher level.
Under Harry Christophers' expert hands, Haydn comes to life in a program that showcases one of his Paris Symphonies, The Bear, a festive and jubilant work commissioned by a Parisian orchestra in the 1780s.
Bach Prelude in B minor, BWV 544 Buxtehude O Clemens, o mitis, o coelestis Pater, BuxWV 82 Bach Allemande, Bourrées and Gigue from the Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009
Instructors Letitia Berlin and Frances Blaker will lead 16 players through intense technique and ensemble sessions during the day. The evenings include lectures, concerts and time to relax and play with congenial friends, old and new.The goal of this workshop is to give you the tools to raise your playing to a higher level.
Instructors Letitia Berlin and Frances Blaker will lead 16 players through intense technique and ensemble sessions during the day. The evenings include lectures, concerts and time to relax and play with congenial friends, old and new.The goal of this workshop is to give you the tools to raise your playing to a higher level.
Rome was a vibrant musical center during the seventeenth-century, primarily due to the Catholic Church's patronage.
Rome was a vibrant musical center during the seventeenth-century, primarily due to the Catholic Church's patronage. Great instrumentalists, such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Hieronymus Kapsberger, made Rome their home.
Celebrate Samuel Pepys' 380th birthday in style!
Second of two concerts presenting Tanya Tomkins performing the complete Cello Suites of Bach. Bruce Lamott will present a free lecture "Miracle on Four Strings" on Wed. February 20 at the Brisbane Library 250 Visitacion Ave. Brisbane CA
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Student/Senior.
Simfoniæ Romanæ: 17th Century Instrumental Music From Rome
Cantata: Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht, BWV 105
Organ: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543
Celebrate Samuel Pepys' 380th birthday in style! Perhaps the English language's most famous diarist, Pepys was a prosperous civil servant and "man-about-town" in Restoration London, and the diaries that he kept from 1660-1668 reveal a glimpse into the life of a middle-class bon vivant under the reign of the "merry monarch" Charles II.
Ars Lyrica Houston, Houston Early Music, Da Camera Houston, and Mercury present first Houston Baroque Marathon weekend which will set the stage for a full-on Texas Early Music Festival the following season (Spring 2014).
Repertoire includes:
Ars Lyrica Houston, Houston Early Music, Da Camera Houston, and Mercury present first Houston Baroque Marathon weekend which will set the stage for a full-on Texas Early Music Festival the following season (Spring 2014).
Repertoire includes:
Ars Lyrica Houston, Houston Early Music, Da Camera Houston, and Mercury present first Houston Baroque Marathon weekend which will set the stage for a full-on Texas Early Music Festival the following season (Spring 2014).
Repertoire includes:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Motet: Der Gerechte kommt um
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto VI, BWV 1051
Heinrich Schütz
Musikalische Exequien, SWV 279
Johann Sebastian Bach
Funeral Ode: Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl, BWV 198
The centerpiece of our program is Robert Levin's reconstruction of Mozart's Symphonie Concertante for winds & orchestra.
- Frescobaldi:
- Aria detta la frescobalda (1627); Toccata Prima (1627); Canzona Prima (1627)
- Ancidetemi pur d’Archadelt passagiato; Toccata Ottava (1615); Canzona Quarta (1627)
- Ricercar Terzo (1615); Cento Partite sopra Passacagli (1637
MB1800 Hell's Kitchen: percussion virtuoso Glen Velez plays an international selection of frame drums – from the Middle East, Italy, South India, Ireland, and Azerbaijan – accompanying himself with overtone singing and drum language vocalizations.
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields with an orchestra of period instruments
Pre-concert lecture: Dr. Raymond Erickson

