March 2024 is EARLY MUSIC month

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Friday, March 1, 2024 8:00-PM (USC, Downtown Los Angeles)
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia:“Music from Guatemala, Mexico, and California” with Ensemble Son Tios
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, Jason Yoshida

FREE

USC campus, Newman Recital Hall

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For more information, contact: earlymusic@usc.edu

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Saturday, March 2, 2024 2:00-4:00 PM (San Gabriel)
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia: “Music from Guatemala, Mexico, and California” with Ensemble Son Tios

Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, Jason Yoshida

FREE

Mission San Gabriel, San Gabriel CA

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and YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/USCEarlyMusic

For more information, contact: earlymusic@usc.edu

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Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.( Pasadena)

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: The Coffee Cantata and other Works by Bach & Telemann

J.S. Bach Coffee Cantata, BWV 211 (staged in an English version) and

Duet from the cantata Wachet auf… (Sleepers awake), BWV 140

G. Ph. Telemann Paris Quartet No. 10 in B minor, TWV 43:h2

Performers: Andrea Zomorodian, soprano, John Buffett, baritone, and Chris Gomez, tenor, Stephan Schultz, transverse flute,, William Skeen, viola da gamba and baroque violoncello,, Kati Kyme & Alfred Cramer, baroque violins,, Ellie Nishi, baroque viola, Denise Briesé, violone, and , Preethi de Silva, harpsichord, artistic director This event is co-sponsored by the Colburn Foundation, Los Angeles.

A reception with coffee, tea, and hors d’oeuvres will follow the concert.

Tickets may be obtained online at suggested donation amounts via Eventbrite at: 

https://the-coffee-cantata.eventbrite.com
General admission: $40;  Seniors, members of SCEMS, EMA, AMS, and Friends of Con Gioia: $32;  Students and children: $15  

COVID-19 precautions shall comply with Los Angeles County guidelines at time of concert.

A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED AT THE DOOR.  

Throop Hall Throop Unitarian Universalist Church 300 S. Los Robles Avenue Pasadena, CA, 91101

The Throop Church parking lot is reserved for Accessible Parking only (vehicles with ADA placards). General parking is available two blocks north of the church in the Paseo Colorado parking structure located at the corner of East Green Street and Los Robles Avenue. Please allow additional time to park and walk to Throop Hall before the concert time.

For updates and further information visit www.congioia.org

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SUN  March 3,  3 P.M., (Pomona)

Artifex Consort and PRISM Choral Ensemble : Voices and Viols

This is a program of English consort songs and anthems by Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins, and Weelkes. The early music concert is led by artistic directors Malachai Komanoff Bandy of Artifex Consort, and Donna M. Di Grazia, the David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, and Pomona College graduate Adrien Redford of PRISM.

Pomona College: BRIDGES HALL OF MUSIC

more info: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/music-calendar.pdf

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March 2 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST (Downtown Los Angeles)

The Colburn Orchestra: Jeannette Sorrell conducts Handel, Cimarosa, and Mozart

Grammy award-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell leads the Colburn Conservatory of Music’s flagship ensemble in an intimate concert of Baroque and Classical favorites, centered around a charming and operatic double concerto for flute, with Danielle Kim & Elvin Schlanger, Flute

. Rounding out the program are selections from Handel’s regal Water Music and Mozart’s solemn 40th Symphony, one of only two he wrote in a minor key.

PROGRAM: HANDEL Selections from Water Music , CIMAROSA Concerto for Two Flutes, MOZART Symphony No. 40 

tickets:$20,  $45, teenager (13-19 years old) can sign up for a free TeenTix pass, which entitles teens to purchase $5 day-of-show tickets

Upgrade your concert experience by joining us for a special meal before the performance. Purchase a “Dinner and Performance” package to enjoy a delicious four-course meal at The Colburn Café, which will be transformed into an elegant restaurant for the evening.

Zipper Hall  200 S Grand Avenue  Los Angeles, 90012

more info: https://www.colburnschool.edu/calendar/events/colburn-orchestra-handel-cimarosa-and-mozart-2/

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Saturday, March 2, 2024 | 7:30PM (San Diego)

La Morra: "Shaping the Invisible"

            The San Diego Early Music Society is pleased to present the San Diego debut of Ensemble La Morra, with a guest appearance by one of the great living lutenists, Nigel North. The ensemble will present a program of songs and instrumental music composed or circulating in Italy around the turn of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This is the time of Leonardo da Vinci, who famously wrote “Se la pittura è la definizione delle cose corporee, la musica è la figurazione delle cose invisibili” (“If painting is the definition of corporeal things, music is the figuration of invisible things"). The program will offer a selection of works that shines a light on the richly musical Italy of the time of Leonardo.
“La Morra dazzles… with exquisite delicacy” (Eduardo Torrico, Scherzo, 2022). “In North's hands…music speaks so directly that the messages implicit in so many of these pieces emerge with a clarity of poise that really draws the listener in” (James Jolly, Gramophone 2003).

St James by-the-Sea, 743 Prospect St, La Jolla, CA 92037

Tickets $10 to $50. For more info: https://www.sdems.org

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SUNDAY, March 3rd, 5:00PM - 6:30PM (Glendale)

Cinballera Entertainment and SCEMS present

a special, historically informed performance of G.F. Handel's Giulio Cesare.

This Early Music Month, we celebrate the 300th anniversary of one of Handel's most exquisite operas with an abridged, baroque chamber opera performance, featuring an intimate four singer cast, Baroque-inspired dancing,  and a five-piece baroque chamber orchestra We will spotlight the love story between Caesar and Cleopatra, embellished by two dancers as Egyptian attendants (with historical choreography). The music will be performed in Italian with costumes and staging.

Tickets $30 General Admission,

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/giulio-cesare-a-baroque-chamber-opera-tickets-833127927057 

Location: First Baptist Church of Glendale at 209 North Louise Street, Glendale, CA 91206

Parking: Paid lots available adjacent to church

more info: https://www.cinballera.org/

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SUN  March 3,  3 PM, (Pomona)

Artifex Consort and PRISM Choral Ensemble : Voices and Viols

This is a program of English consort songs and anthems by Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins, and Weelkes. The early music concert is led by artistic directors Malachai Komanoff Bandy of Artifex Consort, and Donna M. Di Grazia, the David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, and Pomona College graduate Adrien Redford of PRISM.

Pomona College: BRIDGES HALL OF MUSIC

more info: https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/music-calendar.pdf

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Tuesday, March 5 · 7:30 - 9pm PST (Garden Grove)

Christ Cathedral Choir: Hope in God Alone - A Choral Adoration

            As part of the Eucharistic Revival, listen and reflect on some of the most beautiful sacred choral and organ works including Gregorio Allegri's famous Miserere (featuring Alyce Reynaud, Soprano soloist), Jessica French's recently composed Tantum Ergo, and a new arrangement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Master Tallis's Testament that will feature BOTH of Hazel's five-manual consoles played simultaneously. This incredible evening will include Thomas Tallis's rarely-performed Spem in Alium (Hope in God Alone), written for 40-parts, sometimes referred to as the "Mount Everest" of choral music.  Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei, a sung, Latin setting of Psalm 51, illustrates the Psalmist’s plea to God for mercy, the music demands the a solo soprano repeatedly sing high C’s - one of the highest notes possible for a human to produce, and one of the only pieces in the sung repertoire - alongside Mozart’s own soprano solo from his opera The Magic Flute - to require this stratospheric note that will surely soar in Christ Cathedral’s magnificent acoustics.

Alyce Reynaud is a recent graduate of the Christ Cathedral Organ & Choral Scholar Program, who is currently an early music voice major at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Free, but admission tickets required:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spem-in-alium-hope-in-god-alone-a-choral-adoration-tickets-724287161397?aff=oddtdtcreator

Christ Cathedral 12141 Lewis Street Garden Grove, CA 92840

Sunday March 10 4:00pm (West Los Angeles - Mar Vista)

St. Bede's choir and Wessex Consort: Evensong service

Friends of Music at St. Bede's presents the annual Lenten Evensong service.  The Daily Evening Prayer service features choral music by Tye, Tallis, Palestrina, and Lasso, sung by the choir and accompanied Wessex Consort playing 8' consort low recorders, with Frank Basile conducting and playing organ. Prelude and postlude music by will be played by the Wessex Consort on a 6' recorder consort.

Free

St. Bedes Episcopal church, 3590 Grand View Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

ample parking in the church lot and street

Saturday, March 16, 4 p.m. (Claremont)

The Claremont Chorale: “A Musical BACH-analia”

Join the Claremont Chorale and Artistic Director Alan Wellman for an immersive, all-Bach concert for choir and orchestra, featuring Bach’s cantata, "Christ lag in Todesbanden" (BWV 4), along with other sacred choral works by this Baroque master. The all-Bach concert will feature his cantata, "Christ lag in Todesbanden" (BWV 4), along with other sacred choral works, in a sublime journey through the composer's profound religious expressions. Each piece invites the audience into a reflective, transcendent experience, and together serve as a testament to Bach's enduring legacy as a central figure in Baroque sacred music.

The Chorale will be accompanied by a 10-piece instrumental ensemble, along with Matthew Swartz, the Chorale’s collaborative accompanist.  Two works from the pen of Bach’s fictitious offspring, PDQ Bach (pseudonym of the late Peter Schickele), will punctuate the concert’s conclusion with a humorous exclamation point. 

Tickets $10-$20 and are available at the door or online at www.claremontchorale.org.

Kingman Chapel, campus of the Claremont United Church of Christ, 233 Harrison Avenue, Claremont.

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Sunday March 17th at 2 p.m. & 4 p.m (two performances). (Sierra Madre)
Tesserae and Da Camera Society: Good Ton: Music of Georgian London

In Georgian slang the phrase “good ton” referred to having exceptional taste. This concert will present an afternoon of chamber music as it might have been heard in late-eighteenth century London, especially as enjoyed in the well-heeled private spaces of the upper classes. Featuring an original 1806 Clementi square piano, a band of single strings, and period clarinettist Joshua Rubin, this concert will present concerti and sonatas in the intimate setting of the library of the Villa del Sol d’Oro. Featuring music by Johann Christian Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel, and our own Michael Uhlenkott.

Tesserae recreates the sound world of the Georgian London salon with music by J.C. Bach, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Maria Hester Park, and our very own Michael Uhlenkott.

Musicians: Joshua Rubin, classical clarinet, Andrew McIntosh & Heesun Choi, violins, Andrew Waid, viola, Leif Woodward, 'cello, Ian Pritchard, square piano

Tesserae is delighted to be presenting this program in collaboration with the Da Camera Society.

Due to popular demand, this performance will take place both at 2pm, and at 4pm. Refreshments will be served on the terrace between the two performances.

Ticketing $75 for premium seating (front row, reserved). $35 General Admission.

Please purchase your tickets in advance please visit the Da Camera Society website.
Refreshments served on the terrace between the two performances.
This event is likely to sell-out. We encourage you to purchase your tickets early.

Parking Information:The main gate at 675 West Highland leads to few parking spots directly by the entrance to the villa, and onwards to a larger parking area directly behind the villa. 

Villa del Sol d’Oro, Sierra Madre  675 West Highland Avenue  Sierra Madre, CA 91024

more info: https://tesseraebaroque.org/event/good-ton-music-of-georgian-london/

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SUNDAY, MARCH 17 (South Pasadena)

4:00 Los Angeles Baroque: High School Musicale! The Ladies of Vivaldi's Venice. 

Welcome to 18th-century Carnivale season in Venice, where party-hardy nobles from all over Europe came to get down, hit the gambling tables, and take in a show, Vegas-style! One of the most coveted tickets in town was an unlikely spot just round the corner from the famous Basilica San Marco: a school for young women with one of the best orchestras in Europe, led by the "Red Priest" Antonio Vivaldi himself. We celebrate the spirit of the season, the talent of Vivaldi’s orchestra, and a composer who changed 18th-century music. Directed by Lindsey Strand-Polyak. Wine and cheese reception follows.

FREE but donations welcomed at the door.

St. James' Episcopal Church, 1325 Monterey Rd., South Pasadena.

For optional RSVP and further information visit losangelesbaroque.org 

Saturday, March 23 | 3:30 PM – 7:30 PM (Los Angeles)

Sunday, March 24 | 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra: Bach Festival: An Afternoon with Bach and  St. Matthew Passion

Saturday, March 23 | 3:30 PM – 7:30 PM

You will delight in a day of compelling and scintillating music by one of the world’s greatest composers that will educate and entertain listeners.

3:30 PM  Festival Greetings and Introduction

4:00 - 5:00 PM  Toccatas with Davide Mariano, organ

5:00 - 5:30 PM  Coffee and Tea Break

5:30 - 6:00 PM  Motets with Laude, Directed by David Harris

6:30 - 7:30 PM Cantatas BWV 39 and 54 

Including Reginald Mobley, Teresa Wakim, Alois Mülhbacher, Daniel Johannsen, and Stefan Zenkl, directed by Martin Haselböck.

tickets: $80.00

Sunday, March 24 | 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM

10:30 AM  Organ Prelude with Dr. Christoph Bull - FREE

11:00 AM  Sunday Service directed by David Harris with Musica Angelica - FREE

3:00 PM  St. Matthew Passion weaves voices and orchestra through magnificent oratorios and arias featuring two Baroque orchestras and a double choir of award-winning cast of American and European vocal soloists. This thrillingly intense music will soar in the beautiful acoustics of the First Congregational Church to create an unforgettable musical experience.

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM  Post-concert reception in the Shatto

tickets: $40.00-$80.00

Enjoy a 2-day Weekend Pass which includes a general admission ticket for An Afternoon with Bach featuring recitals and lectures on Saturday, March 23 and Section A “reserved seating” for St. Matthew Passion on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 3 PM. Purchase your "Early Bird" Bach Festival 2-day Weekend Pass before March 1 and save $50 per pass.

receive 25% off tickets for the Bach Festival 2-day Weekend Pass, thru March 15, 2024) use PROMO CODE BACHFEST25

You will receive a separate email which will include your tickets for St. Matthew Passion on Sunday, March 24 at 3PM. Please print or use the QR codes on these tickets for St. Matthew Passion upon entry into the Sanctuary.

Ticket Price for Weekend Pass $100.00-$150.00

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles 540 South Commonwealth Avenue  Los Angeles, California 90020

more info: https://www.musicaangelica.org/

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Saturday, March 23  3:00 PM  (San Fernando Valley)

 San Fernando Valley Master Chorale : Handel's "Messiah 101"  Interact. Sing. Listen. Learn! (singalong)

An audience-immersive performance of Handel's Messiah like you’ve never experienced before!
Choose your own adventure as an audience member by sitting next to the instrument or vocal part of your choice. You can bring your score and sing along with the San Fernando Valley Master Chorale or simply listen to the beautiful choral voices and orchestra. Artistic Director (and piano virtuoso/Los Angeles Master Chorale tenor) Charlie Kim will break down the elements of the dancing baroque spirit from the harpsichord.
Featuring selections from Handel's Messiah including less-commonly performed Easter movements—plus fan favorites!

$25 - $30, age 6 and under free Web Link for ticketing

Emmanuel Lutheran Church 6020 Radford Ave (at Oxnard St) North Hollywood CA 91606

more info: 818-738-9955
more info: Event Information

Social Media or other Links: https://www.facebook.com/SFVMasterChorale/

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Wednesday March 27 7:15 pm (Pasadena)

Saint Andrew Music :  Matins and Lauds of Holy Thursday (Tenebræ, the service of shadows)

            On Spy Wednesday evening (Wednesday of Holy Week), March 27, at 7:15 pm, Saint Andrew Music ministry will present the celebration of Matins and Lauds of Holy Thursday (Tenebræ, the service of shadows) in the darkened church. Tenebræ, meaning "shadows," is the name traditionally given to the anticipated celebration (i.e., moved up to the previous evening) of Matins (the night office, sung in darkness of the morning) and Lauds (morning prayer) during Holy Week.

The service will be sung in Latin and comprises Matins and Lauds. Matins comprises three "nocturns," a series of psalms, antiphons, readings, and versicles and responsories. (The famous "Tenebræ responses" are these responsories.) Following Matins, we sing Lauds, which is the usual format of psalms and canticles with their antiphons, the Gospel canticle (Benedictus), and silent prayer. As each psalm is sung, one candle in the Tenebræ hearse (see below) is extinguished, symbolizing the disciples abandoning Jesus one by one, with increasing darkness in the already gloomily-illuminated church building. At the end of the final psalm (the Miserere), the last candle, the bleached-wax candle representing Christ, is hidden behind the altar and the "strepitus" (a loud noise) is made, recalling the earthquake at his death. The Christ candle is returned, signifying hope in the Resurrection, and all depart in silence. Truly one of the most dramatic liturgies of the year. Music list will include  Gesulado's "O vos omnes," the Tenebræ responsories of Victoria, and, of course, Allegri's famous "Miserere," with its stunning soprano high C.

            We have acquired a gorgeous, hand-carved Tenebræ hearse (candelabra). The term "hearse" is used today for the vehicle transporting the dead to and from the church for a funeral. But the origin of the term is a triangular wooden frame used to hold up a cloth (the white baptismal pall) over a coffin. By about 400 years ago the term "hearse" had begun to be used for the vehicle transporting the coffin. One might surmise the earliest Tenebræ hearses were actual hearses to which candles had been added.

FREE

St. Andrew Church, an architectural masterpiece built in 1927, a replica of the Basilica of Santa Sabina dating to the early days of Christianity in Rome. It listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

311 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103

ample parking in large lot next to church

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March 28-30 Musica Transalpina: Colossal Baroque - Large-scale Ceremonial music from the Habsburg Court

Thursday, March 28 at 12 noon: Venetian music composed for the Habsburg Court

Friday, March 29 at 12 noon: Franco-Flemish polyphony of the Spanish Court

Saturday, March 30 at 12 noon: Coronation music from Vienna & Salzburg

Descriptions of individual programs are shown below.

            Through their research at Kremsmünster Abbey and Bishop’s Palace in Olomouc,  MT leaders and associated scholars unearth heretofore unheard treasures of 17th sacred music, presented at the acoustically marvelous Sts. P. and P. church in Wilmington.  In this series of three programs, many international musicians are recruited, including world-renowned organist Sean Maxwell, who is an expert in the Austrian keyboard music of the 17th century.

            MT's signature sound uses colossal instrumental and vocal forces, recreating the original performances – practically nowhere else in America can you regularly hear music written not for two, not for three, but for up to five choirs singing simultaneously. 

All performances are free of charge, but we welcome donations in lieu of ticket purchases.

See the links to tickets and donations at the end of each program description below.

Ss. Peter & Paul Church 515 West Opp Street Wilmington, CA 90744.

Parking at the church, while ample, is limited.  Additional parking can be found one-quarter of a mile away from the church: Ss. Peter & Paul Grammar School: 706 Bay View Ave, Wilmington, CA 90744

Help support these rare performances by Musica Transalpina.

Performances of this style are incredibly rare in America, largely on account of how many specialists they require.  Due to the importance of this music, unheard in nearly four centuries, we are looking for a benefactor who will help underwrite a recording of Saturday’s coronation-themed performance.  Posting a recording of such important repertoire on-line would finally help us reach international acclaim.

Please help us keep this and future performances free by clicking the link below, or by finding us on Venmo: @Transalpina.

https://musicatransalpina.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=039d7a16cf09d1f46abc928cf&id=140d588067&e=91f063742f

Recurring or one-time gifts in any amount are deeply appreciated.

Musica Transalpina is registered as a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation, and all donations are fully tax-deductible.  Please help support our research & discovery of these forgotten masterpieces.

There are more ways to support us!  Helping donate refreshments for our musicians & our audience members is a great way to show your appreciation, and please let us know if you’d ever like to host musicians in your homes – it makes it much more affordable for us to bring world-class talent to Southern California.

Thursday, March 28 at 12 noon - 2:30pm: Venetian music composed for the Habsburg Court

            We shall feature works from two important collections intended to appeal to the Austrian court: Monteverdi’s Gloria in excelsis Deo à 7. from his immensely influential collection of sacred works, Selva morale e spirituale, published at Venice over the years 1640 and 1641 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Empress Eleonora Gonzaga, and Rigatti’s Magnificat con Istromenti à 7., likewise published at Venice in 1640 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III. These works preserve an opulent style which was quickly falling out of style in Italy, but which was still very much in demand at the Austrian court.

            In addition to being dedicated to the Austrian rulers, the fact that these two collections call for such large vocal & instrumental forces indicate that they were meant to appeal to Austrian tastes – whose court delighted in pomp and which favored an older, more grandiose style – but which was beginning to be seen as turgid in Italy, which preferred lighter operatic textures.

            Additionally, we are including an offertorium by Polish composer Mikołaj Zieleński, who was important for assmiliating the Venetian compositional idiom and helped spread polychoral musical influences in Northern Europe. Interestingly, his Offertoria were published at Venice in 1611, the capitol of music publishing at the time.

Reserve your free spot for our Venetian program here

https://musicatransalpina.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=039d7a16cf09d1f46abc928cf&id=b2d92afccc&e=91f063742f

Friday, March 29 at 12 noon: Franco-Flemish polyphony of the Spanish Court

            On this date, our Ensemble will focus on the rich & complex Franco-Flemish polyphony of the Spanish Court, which was almost entirely staffed by non-Spaniards such as Gombert, Manchicourt, and Crequillon.  In addition to florid motets by Netherlandish composers working in Spain, we are proud to feature the first performance in modern times of a recently-rediscovered Passion setting by Fray Miguel de Guerau, an otherwise forgotten Hieronomite monk who composed this work for the official Holy Week observances of the King of Spain at his palace – which doubled as a monastery – the famous El Escorial.

            We shall feature works from two important collections intended to appeal to the Austrian court: Monteverdi’s Gloria in excelsis Deo à 7. from his immensely influential collection of sacred works, Selva morale e spirituale, published at Venice over the years 1640 and 1641 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Empress Eleonora Gonzaga, and Rigatti’s Magnificat con Istromenti à 7., likewise published at Venice in 1640 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III. These works preserve an opulent style which was quickly falling out of style in Italy, but which was still very much in demand at the Austrian court.

            In addition to being dedicated to the Austrian rulers, the fact that these two collections call for such large vocal & instrumental forces indicate that they were meant to appeal to Austrian tastes – whose court delighted in pomp and which favored an older, more grandiose style – but which was beginning to be seen as turgid in Italy, which preferred lighter operatic textures.

            Additionally, we are including an offertorium by Polish composer Mikołaj Zieleński, who was important for assimilating the Venetian compositional idiom and helped spread polychoral musical influences in Northern Europe. Interestingly, his Offertoria were published at Venice in 1611, the capitol of music publishing at the time.

Reserve your free spot for our Spanish Renaissance program here!

https://musicatransalpina.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=039d7a16cf09d1f46abc928cf&id=733c7a1edf&e=91f063742f

Saturday, March 30 at 12 noon (music starts at 1:00): Coronation music from Vienna & Salzburg

We encourage our patrons to arrive an hour late, when the music is set to begin.  The music on Saturday will be interspersed with many long chants, so do not worry if you are running a little late to this all-afternoon affair, followed by a grand reception open to all attendees. 

            We most cordially invite you to hear massive compositions for double chorus, baroque trumpets, rarely-heard cornetti, sackbuts, violins, and up to six viols playing together & in alternation.  The majority of these compositions, which we carefully researched & painstakingly reconstructed, have not been performed since the middle of the 1600’s, in a recreation of what a coronation mass must have been like for those invited to this auspicious ceremony.  This is a performance not to be missed!

            We are proud to present the first modern performance of Antonio Bertali’s Missa Consecrationis à 26., which was likely composed for one of the many coronations that Emperor Leopold I. underwent in the 1650s. You may recall that exactly one year ago we performed the mass from his Imperial coronation of 1658, Bertali’s Missa Sancti Spiritus. The Missa Consecrationis was possibly written for Emperor Leopold’s coronation as king of Hungary or Bohemia, and it exceeds the Missa Sancti Spiritus in size & instrumentation. It is even larger by one voice than Muffat’s massive Missa in labore requies that we performed in August of 2023. In addition to Bertali’s Missa Consecrationis that was written for the royal court, we are performing an anonymous Magnificat from Salzburg in twenty parts, as well as two large offertoria, possibly by Salzburg kapellmeister Abraham Megerle, intended for Salzburg Cathedral’s Easter observances.

Reserve your free spot for the pinnacle of our spring concert series on Saturday March 30 here!

https://musicatransalpina.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=039d7a16cf09d1f46abc928cf&id=4e000a6c7c&e=91f063742f

Saturday March 30 @ 4:00pm (Sierra Madre - east Pasadena)
Tesserae : The Grand Tour
Tesserae features two renowned guests Maxine Eilander, harp and Stephen Stubbs, lute & theorbo, leading a program designed to follow the Grand Tour's path, traversing the rich guitar music of Spain's Murcia, the operatic innovation of Monteverdi's Italy, and the enchanting melodies of Ireland (most notable the music of Turlough O’Carolan, Ireland's legendary blind harpist!)

Tickets $30- $45. Complimentary champagne will be served.

The Sierra Madre Playhouse 87 W Sierra Madre Blvd Sierra Madre, CA 91024

tickets and info

https://www.sierramadreplayhouse.org/event/the-grand-tour/march-30%2C-2024

info@sierramadreplayhouse.org

April 2024

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Thursday, April 4, 2024 7 pm (downtown Los Angeles)

Colburn School Faculty Recital: Ian Pritchard, Harpsichord, and Tatjana Masurenko, Viola d’amore

Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated programs with friends and students. This concert features works by Vivaldi, Bach, Rameau, Milandre, Stamitz, and Arne.

PROGRAM:

RAMEAU Pièces de clavecin en concert: Troisième Concert 

MILANDRE Pièces pour la Viole d’Amour avec la Basse       

BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major

STAMITZ Sonata in D Major for Viola d’amore and Basso 

ARNE Sonata No. 4 in D Minor for Harpsichord

VIVALDI Concerto in D Minor for Viola d’amore

FREE

Colburn School, Thayer Hall  200 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012

213-621-2200

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Sunday, April 7 3 PM  (La Jolla - San Diego area)

Jakub Józef Orlinski with II Pomo D’Oro: Beyond (album selections)

The renowned Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, with the acclaimed chamber orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro, will sing rarely performed early music selections in a program drawn from his latest album, Beyond, that includes works by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Sartorio, and many more.

Hear him here: https://youtu.be/yF4YXv6ZIuE 

Tickets $60-$95

The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue La Jolla, California 92037

Performance details and tickets here. https://transaction.theconrad.org/1896/1901

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Saturday  Apil 6 8PM (USC, near downtown Los Angeles)

Hejun Yang : Harpischord DMA recital

works by Couperin, Froberger, Scarlatti, D'Anglbert

Newman Recital Hall 3616 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles 90089

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Wednesday, April 10,  6:00 PM (west Los Angeles, Westwood)

Los Jubilados: The Din of Antiquity: A Renaissance Grand Tour

The ensemble playing dulcians and other Renaissance instruments perform music of Italy, Spain, and Franco-Flemish composers. A presentation for the Steinmetz bassoon studio students.

Featuring: Stephen Hammer alto dulcian, recorder, Michael O’Donovan tenor dulcian, recorder, Roger Lebow viola da gamba, Kenneth Munday bass dulcian.

Program:  Gioseppe Giamberti: Trombetta, Adriano Banchieri: L’Ardina, Anon: Pavana: La Morte de la Ragione, Banchieri: La Pomponazza, Anon: Ora baila tú, Juan del Encina: Fata la parte Anchieta: Con amores, mi madre, Juan Ponce: Ave, color vini clari, Johannes Martini: Jay pris amours, In meinen Sinn, Heinrich Isaac: In meinem Sinn, Josquin: Par vous je suis ("In mynem Sinn”), “M”: Heth sold ein meisken garn om wein

FREE

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music , Schoenberg Music Building

Organ studio, (near the "Inverted Fountain"), enter from Schoenberg courtyard

Parking: Structure P2, park near north end

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Friday, April 12, 2024 1:00-2:00 PM (USC, Downtown Los Angeles)
Prof. Kenneth Kreitner (Professor Emeritus, University of Memphis) "The Aspersion Antiphons of Seville Cathedral c. 1500" 

FREE

USC campus, Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library

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Friday, April 12, 2024 | 8 PM  (near Koreatown Los Angeles)
JAY CAMPBELL, CELLO: works by J.S. BACH and CAT LAMB

Program: J.S. BACH - Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major (BWV 1007) (ca. 1720) [20']; Catherine LAMB - cross/collapse (2010) [45'] 

Monday Evening Concerts is thrilled to welcome back our dear friend, the brilliant cellist Jay Campbell. His performances have been called “electrifying” by the New York Times and “gentle, poignant, and deeply moving” by the Washington Post. He received two Avery Fisher Career Grants.Since first appearing at MEC as a guest performer on Rolf Riehm's Pasolini in Ostia in 2013, Campbell has become recognized as one of the pre-eminent string players working in classical music today. This program features Campbell performing two iconic works for solo cello - separated by nearly three centuries. 
If Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 1 in G major for solo violoncello (BWV 1007) serves as perhaps the single most recognizable work in the solo cello canon, then Catherine Lamb's 'cross/collapse' (for solo viola or cello with electronics) serves as an exquisitely disorienting counterbalance. Lamb's psychoacoustically mesmerizing work, which lasts approximately forty-five minutes, comes from a series of work for solo string instruments 'coalescing with various forms of (spectral) oscillators.'  "FEEL THE INFINITE HARMONIC TOPOGRAPHY BETWEEN 120-225HZ. ENTER [SPRING] WITH THE POWER OF 15:8 (!)" We look forward to sinking into this gorgeous experience with you all.

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (Shatto Chapel) 540 S Commonwealth Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90020

more info: https://www.mondayeveningconcerts.org/41224---jay-campbell.html

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Saturday, April 13 at 7:30PM (USC, Downtown Los Angeles)
USC Collegium musicum:“Silver and Gold”: Music for the Medici Popes
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert

FREE

USC campus, Cammilleri Hall, Brain and Creativity Institute

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Saturday April 13  1100 am (Long Beach)

Musica Angelica  Baroque Orchestra: FREE Community concert

Featuring award-winning South Korean violinist YuEun Gemma Kim , Musica Angelica  Artist-in-Residence , recently received the Jeffrey Thomas Award from American Bach Soloists and as a core member of Delirium Musicum, with whom she recorded their debut album, ''Seasons'' under the label Warner Classics.

Michelle Obama Library, Long Beach 5870 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach, CA 90805 (562) 570-1047

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Sunday, April 14 ·7:30pm PDT (Pasadena)

Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI presents: Le Nuove Musiche : The Baroque Revolution in Europe (1560–1660)

Experience the inventiveness of the early Baroque era in works that span the late-16th century to the mid-17th century, including those by Frescobaldi, Kapsberger, de' Cavalieri, Falconiero, and more!

Join us for an unforgetable performance culminating in a post-concert reception in the beautiful St. Andrew Piazza.

Performers: Jordi Savall, Music Director Viola da Gamba; Hespèrion XXI: Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Chitarra and Theorbo, Andrew Lawrence-King, Arpa doppia, Philipe Pierlot, Viola da Gamba, Xavier Puertas, Violin, David Mayoral, Percussion

St. Andrew Church 311 N. Raymond Avenue Pasadena CA 91103

St. Andrew Roman Catholic Church, an architectural treasure, nurtures a diverse and welcoming community. For those new to St. Andrew, please visit our website gallery to see photos of this beautiful venue where we have hosted The Tallis Scholars and performers from the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Opera and Los Angeles Children's Chorus.

https://www.saintandrewpasadena.org/

tickets: $78 – $104, SCEMS members discount: 20% off Orchestra and Rear seating (not Premier): use code: SCEMS20STANDREW

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jordi-savall-and-hesperion-xxi-presents-tickets-845559500227?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

more info: http://tinyurl.com/NuoveMusiche

St. Andrew Church 311 North Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91103

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Sunday, April 14, 2024 | 7:30PM (San Diego)

Amarcord: "in aeternum

The San Diego Early Music Society is thrilled to present the highly anticipated return of the German vocal quintet amarcord. Hailed as one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, the Leipzig-based group—founded by five former members of the Thomanerchor at St. Thomas Church, where J. S. Bach served as director of music—will present a program of sacred music by Josquin des Prez, one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance. Enjoy an evening of “stellar musicianship and audience friendly patter” (Ken Herman, San Diego Story).

Tickets $10 to $50.

St James by-the-Sea, 743 Prospect St, La Jolla, CA 92037

For more info: https://www.sdems.org

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Monday April 15th 1p.m. (downtown Los Angeles)
Shunske Sato   (baroque violin) : Master Class and Performance
Tesserae is delighted to cosponsor a short recital and masterclass with special guest Shunske Sato.

From 2013 to 2023 Shunske was artistic leader and concertmaster of the Netherlands Bach Society. During his tenure he directed numerous works by J.S. Bach, including large-scale works such as St. Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio, as well as Passion music by Graun, Graupner and Kaiser. His many recordings of cantatas and instrumental works by Bach can be seen on www.youtube.com/bach.

Other notable accomplishments include his own instrumentation of Bach’s Art of Fugue, collaborating with Opera2Day on an opera interweaving contemporary music and compositions by Bach, and video recordings of Bach’s Musical Offering which visually render the compositional structures using special effects.  

Shunske will be joined by Tesserae music director and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard for a short 30 minute recital that will precede a masterclass with students of the Colburn School.

This event is free to the public. No tickets required.

Thayer Hall,  The Colburn School 200 S Grand Avenue  Los Angeles, 90012

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Thursday, April 18, 2024 7 pm  (Downtown Los Angeles and livestreamed)

Colburn Baroque Ensemble: Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos

The Baroque Ensemble presents Bach’s famous Brandenburg Concertos in their entirety. Bach’s kaleidoscopic scoring allows Colburn’s talented students to shine in multiple solo roles, and the intimate space of Thayer Hall will facilitate a performance of these beloved works with their original, leaner instrumental forces.

Tickets: $15, $30

Colburn School, Thayer Hall 200 S Grand Ave Los Angeles CA

https://www.colburnschool.edu/calendar/events/colburn-baroque-ensemble-5/

https://www.colburnschool.edu/livestream/

April 20, 2024 2:00pm & 8:00pm (Pasadena)

Pasadena Symphony and Pops: Vivaldi

In our long tradition of featuring the stars of tomorrow here today, multiple prize-winning violinist Charlotte Marckx brings Vivaldi’s most cherished concertos to life with her technical chops and expressive panache. Dudamel Conducting Fellow Linhan Cui leads the orchestra for this season finale of Baroque masterworks and Award-winning Chinese Composer Si-ang Chen’s beautifully sonorous Adagio.Program:

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Si-ang Chen Symphony No. 1 “Expedition”, 2nd mvt
Puccini Crisantemi
Vivaldi Four Seasons

http://pasadenasymphony-pops.org/concert/vivaldi-four-seasons-2/

April 20, 2024 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM (Long Beach , repeats April 21, 2024 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Los Angeles)

Musica Angelica  Baroque Orchestra : Vivaldi IL Veneziano | Long Beach

Capital of The Most Serene Republic of the same name for over a millennium, Venice has hosted several musical personalities as distinctive as the city’s infrastructure and few have dominated compositional style like native son Antonio Vivaldi. Red-haired and ordained to the priesthood at age 25, “The Red Priest” honed his musical craft while working at the Ospedale della Pietà, where he taught and composed for orphaned girls. His concertos, whether related to a season or not, display countless examples of sequential mastery and technical bravado which regularly result in exciting moments for listener and performer alike.

Program:

Sinfonia in G RV146

Oboe concerto in C RV 447

Spring Op8#1 RV 269

Summer Op8#2 RV 315

Autumn Op8#3 RV 293

Winter Op8#4 RV 297

Folia from Trio Sonata in D Minor, RV 63, arr. Gonzalo X. Ruiz

First Congregational Church of Long Beach, 241 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach, California 90802

more info: https://www.musicaangelica.org/concerts-tickets/

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April 21, 2024 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Los Angeles) (repeats April 20, 2024 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM in Long Beach)

Musica Angelica  Baroque Orchestra : Vivaldi IL Veneziano | Long Beach

Capital of The Most Serene Republic of the same name for over a millennium, Venice has hosted several musical personalities as distinctive as the city’s infrastructure and few have dominated compositional style like native son Antonio Vivaldi. Red-haired and ordained to the priesthood at age 25, “The Red Priest” honed his musical craft while working at the Ospedale della Pietà, where he taught and composed for orphaned girls. His concertos, whether related to a season or not, display countless examples of sequential mastery and technical bravado which regularly result in exciting moments for listener and performer alike.

Program:

Sinfonia in G RV146

Oboe concerto in C RV 447

Spring Op8#1 RV 269

Summer Op8#2 RV 315

Autumn Op8#3 RV 293

Winter Op8#4 RV 297

Folia from Trio Sonata in D Minor, RV 63, arr. Gonzalo X. Ruiz

Ticket Price $40.00-$80.00

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (Shatto) 540 South Commonwealth Avenue  Los Angeles, California 90020

more info: https://www.musicaangelica.org/concerts-tickets
 

Sunday April 21 300pm (west Los Angeles)

Chevalier Festival Concert: Chevalier St George - Violin Concertos op5#2

Featuring Ashley  Horne , violin  who trained  at Julliard.  Afro-American Chamber mUsic Society , conducted by Vince Womack.

THE CHEVALIER movie most recently placed Chevalier de Saint-Georges center stage entertaining millions of movie buffs about the French Virtuoso Violinist and prolific Composer for Queen Marie Antoinette. Chevalier de Saint-Georges ne Joseph Bologne also known as the Mozart Noir (Black Mozart).Born in 1745 in Guadelupe on a slave plantation to a Senagalese slave mother, Nanon, Chevalier rose from the humblest of beginnings to conduct the finest orchestras appointed by French royals.

Local artistes will join the celebration showcasing operatic arias, symphonies and instrumental sonatas for flute and harpsichord. Arias from L'Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) with Sopranos, Dr. Britany Moore Alexander and Lettrice Lawrence;  Joel Brown, Tenor; along with Shigeru Logan, Shahid Osuna, Flutist and Janise White, Harpsichordist.

tickets: $10 (students with ID); UCLA students, please contact the African Studies Center for tickets – africa@international.ucla.edu; $25 (general admission); $60 (VIP seating). A reception will be held immediately after the concert.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chevalier-festival-concert-tickets-861179209197

Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum, UCLA campus 308 Charles E Young Dr. N Los Angeles 90024

more info: http://www.aacmsorchestra.org/

Sunday April 21  2 p.m. (Sierra Madre)
Ian Pritchard  (harpsichord): Ferrara 1590
Tesserae music director Ian Pritchard performs a solo recital of music from Ferrara 1590, presenting the rich tapestry of keyboard traditions as Girolamo Frescobaldi might have encountered them as a young man. 

Presented by Sierra Madre Playhouse and Tesserae Baroque, the  concert offers an immersive journey into 16th-century Italian keyboard music, showcasing the transition to the Baroque style, particularly through the works of Girolamo Frescobaldi. Frescobaldi, born in Ferrara, was a key figure in the evolution of keyboard music, integrating various musical traditions. The program explores the rich keyboard music associated with the Este family's ducal rule in Ferrara, reflecting the influences on Frescobaldi's early career.

Ian Pritchard, an expert harpsichordist, will lead the performance, featuring pieces by composers like Merulo, Gabrieli, Ercole Pasquini, Macque, and others.

Champagne served during the performance.

Tickets $30, $45l

Sierra Madre Playhouse, Sierra Madre 87 W Sierra Madre Blvd Sierra Madre, CA 91024

more info: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=211314

wwww.tesseraebaroque.org

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Sunday April 21 300pm (west Los Angeles)

Chevalier Festival Concert: Chevalier St George - Violin Concertos op5#2

Featuring Ashley  Horne , violin  who trained  at Julliard.  Afro-American Chamber mUsic Society , conducted by Vince Womack.

THE CHEVALIER movie most recently placed Chevalier de Saint-Georges center stage entertaining millions of movie buffs about the French Virtuoso Violinist and prolific Composer for Queen Marie Antoinette. Chevalier de Saint-Georges ne Joseph Bologne also known as the Mozart Noir (Black Mozart).Born in 1745 in Guadelupe on a slave plantation to a Senagalese slave mother, Nanon, Chevalier rose from the humblest of beginnings to conduct the finest orchestras appointed by French royals.

Local artistes will join the celebration showcasing operatic arias, symphonies and instrumental sonatas for flute and harpsichord. Arias from L'Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) with Sopranos, Dr. Britany Moore Alexander and Lettrice Lawrence;  Joel Brown, Tenor; along with Shigeru Logan, Shahid Osuna, Flutist and Janise White, Harpsichordist.

tickets: $10 (students with ID); UCLA students, please contact the African Studies Center for tickets – africa@international.ucla.edu; $25 (general admission); $60 (VIP seating). A reception will be held immediately after the concert.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chevalier-festival-concert-tickets-861179209197

Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum, UCLA campus 308 Charles E Young Dr. N Los Angeles 90024

more info: http://www.aacmsorchestra.org/

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SUNDAY, APRIL 21

3:00 Camerata Pacifica Baroque: The French Dispatch.

This period instrument program, curated by and featuring eminent flutist Emi Ferguson, explores milestone and rarely heard French Baroque vocal and instrumental repertoire. In addition to Ferguson, the leading artists featured are Karim Sulayman, tenor; Rachell Ellen Wong, violin; Doug Balliett, viola da gamba; Stephen Stubbs, guitar; and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord. They perform works by Clérambault; Anne Madeleine Guédon de Presles; Telemann, and Rameau. 

Scherr Forum Theatre, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362.

Tickets: $80. For tickets and information, visit info@cameratapacifica.org, or call 805-884-8410.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 23

7:30 Camerata Pacifica Baroque: The French Dispatch.

This period instrument program, curated by and featuring eminent flutist Emi Ferguson, explores milestone and rarely heard French Baroque vocal and instrumental repertoire. In addition to Ferguson, the leading artists featured are Karim Sulayman, tenor; Rachell Ellen Wong, violin; Doug Balliett, viola da gamba; Stephen Stubbs, guitar; and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord. They perform works by Clérambault; Anne Madeleine Guédon de Presles; Telemann, and Rameau. 

The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall, 1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108.

Tickets: $75. For tickets and information, visit info@cameratapacifica.org, or call 805-884-8410.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

8:00 Camerata Pacifica Baroque: The French Dispatch.

This period instrument program, curated by and featuring eminent flutist Emi Ferguson, explores milestone and rarely heard French Baroque vocal and instrumental repertoire In addition to Ferguson, the leading artists featured are Karim Sulayman, tenor; Rachell Ellen Wong, violin; Doug Balliett, viola da gamba; Stephen Stubbs, guitar; and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord. They perform works by Clérambault; Anne Madeleine Guédon de Presles; Telemann, and Rameau. 

Zipper Hall, The Colburn School, 200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

Tickets: $75. For tickets and information, visit info@cameratapacifica.org, or call 805-884-8410.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

7:30 Camerata Pacifica Baroque: The French Dispatch.

This period instrument program, curated by and featuring eminent flutist Emi Ferguson, explores milestone and rarely heard French Baroque vocal and instrumental repertoire. In addition to Ferguson, the leading artists featured are Karim Sulayman, tenor; Rachell Ellen Wong, violin; Doug Balliett, viola da gamba; Stephen Stubbs, guitar; and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord. They perform works by Clérambault; Anne Madeleine Guédon de Presles; Telemann, and Rameau. 

Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Tickets: $75. For tickets and information, visit info@cameratapacifica.org, or call 805-884-8410.

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Friday, April 26, 2024 8:00-PM (USC, Downtown Los Angeles)
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia:“Master of the High (and Low) Baroque”
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida

FREE

USC campus, Newman Recital Hall

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April 28 (Yorba Linda - east Orange County)

Melody Lin - Harpsichord

Nixon Library Sunday Concert Series

18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda, CA 92886.

more info: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/nixon-library-sunday-concert-schedule

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May 2024

Wed  May 1,  8:00PM (downtown Los Angeles)

(repeats Thurs May 2 in Orange county)

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano : BACH : Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Dubbed “the new superstar of classical piano”,  “Iceland’s Glenn Gould.” Now one of the most sought-after artists of today, Ólafsson’s multiple awards include Gramophone magazine’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Opus Klassik Solo Recording Instrumental (twice) and Album of the Year at the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards.

Presented by Colburn Celebrity Recital.

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/2519/2024-05-01/vikingur-olafsson

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Thursday, May 2nd, 8pm, (Orange county) (repeats Wed May 1 in Los Angeles)

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano : BACH : Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Dubbed “the new superstar of classical piano”, “Iceland’s Glenn Gould.” Now one of the most sought-after artists of today, Ólafsson’s multiple awards include Gramophone magazine’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Opus Klassik Solo Recording Instrumental (twice) and Album of the Year at the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards.

Preconcert lecture at 7PM

Presented by Philharmonic Society of Orange County

Tickets $24 and up, student rush tickets ($20) use code "RUSH2324"

Renée & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 615 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa, CA 92626

more info: https://www.philharmonicsociety.org/concerts-tickets/calendar-of-events/vikingur-olafsson

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SATURDAY, May 4th, 6:30PM (Glendale)

L.A. Camerata presents "Fra Dori, e Fileno:" Edition Release Concert

Los Angeles Camerata promotes the performance of works by historically underrepresented women and "others." In this concert, we will perform a secular cantata by Camilla de Rossi (fl. 1710) from an edition recently released by Dulcamara Press, edited by Marylin Winkle. The cantata depicts the courtship of a shepherd (Fileno) and sea nymph (Dori). Two singers (soprano Marisa De Silva and mezzo soprano Sarah Reynolds) will be accompanied by a baroque ensemble on period instruments: Eli Chenevert (violin), Rachel Iba (violin), Courtney Kuroda (violin), Ashley Salinas (violin), Marylin Winkle (cello), Robert Wang (guitar and theorbo), Sonia Lee (harpsichord). The performance will also include instrumental music by Isabella Leonarda and Alessandro Stradella. 

Location: First Baptist Church of Glendale, 209 N Louise St, Glendale, CA 91206

Parking: Paid lots available adjacent to the church. Metered street parking also available.

Tickets: By donation, pay what you can/will. Use this form to RSVP. 

Contact: losangelescamerata@gmail.com

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Sat, May 4  7:30 pm (Santa Monica)  (repeats Sun, May 5 7:30 pm  The Huntington, Rothenberg Hall Get Tickets

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Jiji + Vivaldi

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Series concludes with a selection of masterworks from the Italian Baroque led by Concertmaster Margaret Batjer, among them Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor for Guitar, featuring South Korean guitarist JIJI, “a graceful and nuanced player” (Kansas City Star). Principal Cello Andrew Shulman is also a soloist on the program that includes Cello Concerto No. 3 in D minor by Leo, who was considered Scarlatti’s heir apparent; Scarlatti’s Sonata in D minor; Vivaldi’s “Spring” from The Four Seasons; and Charles Avison’s Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti, No. 6 in D major. Two contemporary works inspired by the era round out the program – Caroline Shaw’s Stucco & Brocatelle and Max Richter’s recomposed version of “Spring” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. 

PROGRAM

SCARLATTI, Sonata in D minor  

VIVALDI, Concerto in D minor for Guitar  

LEO, Cello Concerto No. 3 in D minor  

CAROLYN SHAW, Stucco & Brocatelle  

CHARLES AVISON/SCARLATTI, Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti, No. 6 in D major  

VIVALDI, “Spring” from The Four Seasons  

MAX RICHTER, “Spring” from Recomposed 

Tickets $19-69

The Wallis Bram Goldsmith Theater  9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90210

more info: https://www.laco.org/events/

Sun, May 5  7:30 pm  The Huntington, Rothenberg Hall (Pasadena) (repeats Sat, May 4  7:30 pm inSanta Monica)

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Jiji + Vivaldi

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Series concludes with a selection of masterworks from the Italian Baroque led by Concertmaster Margaret Batjer, among them Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor for Guitar, featuring South Korean guitarist JIJI, “a graceful and nuanced player” (Kansas City Star). Principal Cello Andrew Shulman is also a soloist on the program that includes Cello Concerto No. 3 in D minor by Leo, who was considered Scarlatti’s heir apparent; Scarlatti’s Sonata in D minor; Vivaldi’s “Spring” from The Four Seasons; and Charles Avison’s Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti, No. 6 in D major. Two contemporary works inspired by the era round out the program – Caroline Shaw’s Stucco & Brocatelle and Max Richter’s recomposed version of “Spring” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. 

PROGRAM

SCARLATTI, Sonata in D minor  

VIVALDI, Concerto in D minor for Guitar  

LEO, Cello Concerto No. 3 in D minor  

CAROLYN SHAW, Stucco & Brocatelle  

CHARLES AVISON/SCARLATTI, Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti, No. 6 in D major  

VIVALDI, “Spring” from The Four Seasons  

MAX RICHTER, “Spring” from Recomposed 

Tickets $19-69

more info: https://www.laco.org/events/

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108

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Sunday, May 5  2:00 pm (Orange, in Orange County)

Chapman University Early Music Ensemble: Carmina Chromatica -  the genius of Orlando di Lasso

Bruce Bales leads this talented student ensemble in a recital of music by the late Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso on rare period instruments.
Bertea Hall Salmon Recital Hall 245 E Palm Ave Orange CA 92866
Event Phone: 714-997-6519
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Thursday May 9, 2024 at 7 P.M.

Musica Transalpina : In voce tubæ: Venetian music for Ascension

As part of Ss. Peter & Paul’s ongoing sacred music series, Musica Transalpina presents enormous polychoral works from Venice written at the dawn of the Baroque, including Giovanni Gabrieli’s Omnes gentes à 16. (published in 1597), one of the earliest extant works written for four separate choirs.  Alongside this masterpiece, we are presenting Giovanni Croce’s equally large Missa super Iubilate Deo à 16. vocibus, apparently written at the request of Archduke Ferdinand (future Emperor Ferdinand II.) who met Croce while at Venice in 1598.  This enormous mass setting survives in manuscript form in the Graz Chorbuch, and is receiving its first American performance–and quite possibly its very first modern performance anywhere–by our Ensemble on

Ss. Peter & Paul: 515 West Opp Street, Wilmington CA 90744.

This event is free of charge & open to the public, but tax-deductible donations are always deeply appreciated.  Reserve your free spot at the following link:

AscensionThursday.eventbrite.com

Parking: abundant parking in church lot

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Saturday May 11 2024 at 7 P. M.,

Musica Transalpina: “Colossal Baroque” a concert performance

Experience the splendor of Venice with a mesmerizing performance of polychoral music from the dawn of the Baroque.  Large-scale works by Giovanni Gabrieli & Giovanni Croce for up to four choirs that defined the “Colossal Baroque” style of the following century.

Musica Transalpina seeks to recreate the Mass that would have formed the centerpiece of the extravagant celebrations on Ascension Day during the Venetian golden age, when she was at the height of her wealth & artistic influence.  Ascension was celebrated with especial pomp in baroque-era Venice, and some of the most spectacular compositions of the entire baroque period were written for this auspicious holiday.

The centerpiece of our program, Giovanni Gabrieli’s opulent Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus à 16. vocibus (published in 1597) is one of the earliest extant works in 16 parts distributed across four separate choirs, and as such, is of immense historical importance to the development of the emerging Baroque style.  In addition to this enormous motet, we are presenting the first performance in modern times of Giovanni Croce’s Missa à 16. super Iubilate Deo, also in 16 parts and written circa 1598, possibly at the behest of Archduke Ferdinand, the future Holy Roman Emperor.   This latter work, which survives in the Graz Chorbuch, was carefully transcribed for our Ensemble by Nathaniel Decker.

FREE, but donationas are appreciated

S. Vincent de Paul 621 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90007.

Parking in church lot

more info and tickets and donations:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-voce-tub-venetian-music-for-ascension-tickets-878517829477?aff=oddtdtcreator

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SUNDAY, MAY 19 at 4:00 pm (South Pasadena)
Los Angeles Baroque: Bohemian Rhapsody! Music from the Prague Royal Court
When we think of "Baroque" music, many of us think Germany, Italy, France, England… and then the list starts to trail off. This often has much more to do with modern political history and scholarship than the richness of the repertories. Thankfully, this is starting to change, and this Spring, LAB is digging into delicious music by Czech composers and the patronage of the Prague Court. One of the other themes in this program is how composers processed life's challenges through music. This area of the world had suffered greatly from plague and the 30 Years’ War. And yet, Zelenka and Biber wrote pieces that would have brought these topics into a salon-type setting. Directed by Lindsey Strand-Polyak. Wine and cheese reception follows.

Program:

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Hipocondrie a 7 Concertanti in A Major

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Battalia a 10 in D Major

František Ignác Antonín Tuma: Partita in D

Sunday May 26th at 5:00pm (Beverly Hills)
Tesserae Baroque :Alessandro Scarlatti's Oratorio: "Cain, over Il Primo Omicidio"

The Tesserae Baroque Season final features Alessandro Scarlatti’s monumental late oratorio ‘Cain, overo Il Primo Omicidio’, a Baroque masterpiece rarely heard in Southern California. Featuring an all-star cast of characters (including Lucifer himself!), Scarlatti depicts the Biblical tale of Cain and Abel with the absolute high drama that can only be provided by the Roman Baroque theatrical style and Scarlatti’s intense harmonic language.

Tickets: $50/$35/$25/$20; Free admission for children and members of the All Saints' Music Guild.
Please purchase your tickets in advance.

All Saints' Episcopal Church 504 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills

more info: https://tesseraebaroque.org/event/scarlattis-il-primo-omicidio/

Minor

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Sinfonia in G Major

Johann Friedrich Fasch: Concerto for Flute and Strings in G Major
FREE but donations welcomed at the door.
St. James' Episcopal Church, 1325 Monterey Rd., South Pasadena.
For optional RSVP and further information visit https://www.losangelesbaroque.org/concerts 

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