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...
SFEMS 43rd Concert Season Preview The poet Ezra Pound once said something to the effect that the poem fails when it strays too far from the song, and the song fails when it strays too far from the dance. One well may believe these arts, to which of...
by Sheli Nan There is a structural integrity to rhythm. By that I mean rhythm is integral to who we are as human beings; it arises both consciously and unconsciously by the ways we use our bodies. We tie our shoes, for instance, in a learned rhythm...
The Bay Area’s multi-faceted harpist, teacher, composer, and ensemble director Cheryl Ann Fulton—one of the foremost practitioners of historical harp—was interviewed recently on Angela Mariani’s syndicated early-music program Harmonia. The interview...
San Francisco Choral Artists, led by Artistic Director Magen Solomon, is one of the Bay Area’s premiere chamber choirs, having largely staked their reputation around the fostering of new music with its numerous world premieres over the years. ...