Performances in Campbell, San Francisco and Palo Alto
Our Christmas concert of Renaissance motets for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany features Missa O magnum mysterium by Tomás Luis de Victoria,
a work of haunting beauty and great emotional appeal. We accompany this melodic four-part mass with a set of richly textured polychoral motets by
Gabrieli, Praetorius, Lassus and other master composers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Please join us for a sublime introduction to the Holiday season!
Mozart Festival February 28, March 1, 2 • 2014
Performances in Campbell, San Francisco and Palo Alto
In February/March we celebrate the Classical era and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, accompanied by the renowned Jubilate Orchestra of period instruments and superb
Bay Area soloists: Ann Moss, Janet Campbell, Corey Head, and Jeff Fields. The concert opens with Regina Coeli K. 276 and the wonderful Coronation Mass K. 317.
We finish the evening with Vesperae solemnes de confessore K.339, also known as Solemn Vespers. Don't miss this glorious evening of Mozart’s choral works!
Poet’s Corner June 6, 7, 8 • 2014
Performances in Campbell, San Francisco and Palo Alto
Our June concert moves forward in time with an exploration of contemporary settings of the world’s great poetry. Featured works include Paul Hindemith’s Six
Chansons, with texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, and a song cycle of Omar Khayyám’s verses from the Rubáiyát by Emma Lou Diemer. Beautiful, expressive settings
by Eric Whitacre, Frank Ticheli and Sanford Dole of poetry by Sara Teasdale, William Shakespeare and e. e. cummings round out this lovely concert.
Concert Venues:
Campbell
Campbell United Methodist Church, 1675 Winchester Boulevard
San Francisco St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 De Haro Street
Palo Alto
First Baptist Church, 305 North California Avenue
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A Renaissance Christmas
Campbell
Dec. 6 8:00
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Dec. 7 8:00
Palo Alto
Dec. 8 4:30
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Mozart Festival
Campbell
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March 1 8:00
Palo Alto
March 2 4:30
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Poet’s Corner
Campbell
June 6 8:00
San Francisco
June 7 8:00
Palo Alto
June 8 4:30
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A Renaissance Christmas December 6, 7, 8 • 2013
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Once again, for our 35th season, we will present a wonderful array of choral
works drawn from various eras. This year, however, each concert will focus on one period
in music history.
The December concert will explore the glories of the Renaissance, offering significant
motets from the leading composers of the day. Grand motets by Gabrieli, Praetorius, Lassus,
and others will accompany our featured work, Missa O magnum mysterium by Tomás
Luis de Victoria, a mass based on his sublime Christmas anthem, O magnum mysterium.
This concert promises to be an ethereal way to enter into the Christmas season.
In February/March we will honor the king of classical music with a program featuring
three of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most delightful works for chorus, soloists and
orchestra. The concert will open with the short, celebratory Regina Coeli K. 276 and the
wonderful Coronation Mass K. 317. Then the Solemn Vespers, more correctly called
Vesperae solemnes de confessor K.339 which is one of my favorite works from the period.
All three include a quartet of soloists and we have engaged some of the leading singers
on the Bay Area music scene to join us: Ann Moss, Janet Campbell, Corey Head, and Jeff
Fields. Accompanying us will be the Jubilate Orchestra of period instruments including
classical woodwinds, which sound at A430. You won't want to miss this extravaganza!
Our June concert will explore the ways in which contemporary composers set verses of
the world's great poetry. But don’t let the idea of “new music” scare you! Fifty years after
the heyday of serialism and experimental techniques, composers in our era write music
that is beautiful to listen to, expressive and sensitive to the text. Our featured work,
written in 1939, before the musical experimentation of the mid-Twentieth Century, is
Six Chansons by Paul Hindemith, a setting of poetry of Reiner Maria Rilke. Other poets
represented include Emma Lou Diemer with a song cycle of Omar Khayyám’s verses from
the Rubáiyát, as well as William Shakespeare, Sara Teasdale and e. e. cummings, as set
by leading composers of our day including
Eric Whitacre, Frank Ticheli and myself.
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Sanford Dole, Artisitc Director