New Board Elected, Robert Cole Honored The San Francisco Early Music Society held its annual membership meeting at Berkeley’s Musical Offering café and record store on Sunday evening, September 15. After some pleasant socializing, lubricated with...
Tish Berlin will be offering two classes in September and October. The classes take place on Tuesdays, from September 24 through October 22, at Tish’s home in Albany. The first class, “Church and Chamber: French Psalm Settings and...
Auditions in February 2020 — Concerts in March 2020 All instruments, ensembles, vocalists and choirs are invited! The Junior Bach Festival hopes all will be well represented during our 67th year in 2020. Festival auditions will take place in...
Costanoan Trio Recreates the Intimate Soundworld of Four Classical Greats The SFEMS 2019–2020 concert season begins in less than a month. We start early this year in terms of calendar but late in terms of repertory—or to give it Biblical...
The Renaissance Singers’ Retreat will convene on October 5–6, 2019. This is our 33rd year! All good sight singers are welcome. Our conductor, Professor William P. Mahrt of Stanford, has announced that we will be singing the works of Jacob Handl...
This Fall, after a hiatus of a dozen years, City College of San Francisco will once again be offering a course in Medieval and Renaissance Music. This course is the initial component of a chronological sequence titled History of Music in Western...
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...