SFEMS will hold its Annual Members’ Meeting on Sunday, September 15, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at The Musical Offering, 2430 Bancroft Way in Berkeley. All SFEMS members are cordially invited to attend. The annual meeting is an opportunity for us to...
Early Music Open Mic Night continues in the East Bay. This event is held on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. at the Hillside Community Church, 1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito. This is your opportunity to perform early...
Welcome to the beginning of the Junior Bach Festival’s 2019–2020 season! We thank you if you have prepared students to audition for the Junior Bach Festival in the past, and we hope you will encourage your advanced students, up to 18 years of age...
The Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra will hold its first meeting of the 2019–20 season at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11, in Angus Hall at Trinity Church, 330 Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park. All those who play recorder, early winds or early...
The California Arts Council (CAC) has awarded the San Francisco Early Music Society its largest-ever grant. SFEMS will receive $17,600 for the coming year, more than a third above last year’s grant. President Joyce Johnson Hamilton conveyed...
Marin Baroque will offer a workshop for both instrumentalists and singers on Friday and Saturday, August 23 and 24. The workshop will focus on Joseph Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, also known as the Lord Nelson Mass. The workshop will be led by Marin...
by Margaret Wootton The California Bach Society is delighted to host its 14th annual Summer Choral Workshop, “J.S. Bach: St. John Passion” on Saturday, August 17, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., in Palo Alto. Come sing with us again! Paul Flight...
West Edge Opera presents a new interpretation of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. As perhaps a small correction to our male dominated art form, the opera will be conducted, directed, choreographed, designed and performed by women an...
The Valley of the Moon Music Festival (VMMF) opens in Sonoma in just two weeks. VMMF is the first and only organization in the US devoted to presenting the chamber music of the Classical and Romantic eras performed on instruments characteristic of...
An Interview with Sasha Cooke At a time when the historical performance movement is moving unabashedly into the Classical and Romantic periods—showing perhaps that the “Era of Common Practice” had less in common with current practices than we’d...