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February 2007
4
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Sanford
Dole Ensemble presents
O Shout with Gladness: The Vocal
Quintet, Then and Now
This program compares and contrasts
music for
five voices from the Renaissance and Modern Eras.
Part One includes motets and madrigals of the 16th century by such
greats as William Byrd, Henry Purcell and Giovanni Da Palestrina.
Part Two jumps to 20th and 21st centuries, featuring "Hymn to St.
Cecilia" by Benjamin Britten. Other composers represented include C.V.
Stanford, Eliott Carter, and a new anthem by Sanford Dole, "Bless us
Lord, in your Peace."
Sanford Dole Ensemble is an association of local professional
musicians, whose personnel varies to suit the needs of the repertoire
in any given concert. This program features five of the Bay Area's
finest singers, all of whom have many years experience as professional
members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Philharmonia Baroque
Orchestra Chorale, and as soloists, both locally and nationally: Ruth
Escher, soprano, Elspeth Franks, mezzo-soprano, Linda Liebshutz, alto,
Sanford Dole, tenor, and Chad Runyan bass.
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Sunday
20 May 2007
5 PM
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Spanish and Cuban Songs:
Elizabeth
Caballero, soprano
Leesa Dahl, Piano
The exciting soprano
Elizabeth Caballero returns to St. John's, the site of her sold-out recital debut in 2004. A former
Adler Fellow at the SF Opera, the Cuban-born soprano recently made her
New York City Opera debut to lavish critical acclaim.
Partnered
by the esteemed pianist Leesa Dahl, Miss Caballero performs arias and
songs by Cuban and Spanish composers, including works by Turina,
Rodrigo, Obradors, Lecuona, and Enrique Granados' incadescently
beautiful cycle, La Maya Y el Ruysenor. Miss Caballero's appearance is
made possible by the generous sponsorship of Jayne Davis and Anita
Weissberg. Miss Dahl's participation is made possible by the kind
support of Amy Roth and Bob Epstein.
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Saturday
23 June 2007
4:00 PM |
ST. JOHN'S CENTENNIAL CONCERT
St.
John's Presbyterian Church is blessed to have among its congregation
some world-class musicians, frequent guest artists at concert halls in
the U.S. and Europe. Here these distinguished performers come together
to commemorate St. John's centennial with brilliant music and a joyous
celebration.
Well know to SF Symphony audiences, oboist William Bennett was
prominently featured last fall on PBS in the national telecast of
Michael Tilson Thomas' award-winning educational series, "Keeping the
Score." This time, Bill leaves his tux and tails at home, and we get a
rare opportunity to hear his vivid musicality and technical brilliance
applied to favorite standards by Duke
Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and George Gershwin.
Internationally acclaimed in opera and concert for her radiant
interpretation of baroque and classical repertoire, soprano Christine Brandes is
joined by the St. John's Church Choir in the heavenly Laudate Dominum
from W.A. Mozart's Solemn Vespers, K. 339.
Maestra J. Karla Lemon
conducts.
For this very special concert, we will also hear the premiere of a new
work by composer Brian
Mountford, commissioned by St. John's and set to poems by Wallace Stevens, Henry Reed,
William Butler Yates and Joyce Kilmer.
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Sunday
21 October
2007
4:00 PM
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Byrd,
Gibbons and Tomkins:
16th
Century English Keyboard Music
Davitt
Moroney, organ
Currently
on the Music Dept. faculty at UC Berkeley, Davitt Moroney is
an
exciting keyboard artist of international acclaim, and one of the most
brilliant music scholars of his generation. A frequent guest at
international festivals, he is the recipient of prestigious honors and
prizes for his performances. For his services to music, he was awarded
the title of Chevalier in the Order of Cultural Merit by Prince Rainier
III of Monaco, and was named an Officier
in the order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Professor Moroney returns to St. John's for another extraordinary
recital on the Brombaugh organ, performing 16th and 17th century
English keyboard music by William
Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, and Thomas Tomkins.
Proceeds from this event will benefit both the Baroque Music Fund at UC
Berkeley, and St. John's organ concerts fund.
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Sunday
18 November 2007
4:00 PM |
J.S.
Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Jonathan
Rhodes Lee, harpsichord
Composed in 1722, the first book of J.S.
Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier has become a staple of the Western musical
canon. Robert Schumann famously urged musicians, "Let the Well-Tempered
Clavier become your daily bread," and subsequent generations of artists
and critics have found inspiration in the collection's variety, depth
and grandeur.
Harpsichordist and jusci scholar Johathan Rhodes Lee offers us a rare
opportunity to hear all the twenty-four preludes and fugues from the
first book, performed integrally in |
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