--------- Southern California Early Music Society Early Music Around Town Online Event Calendar www.earlymusicla.org
Please note that SCEMS does not present or sponsor concerts. The listings below include early music related concerts and events offered by organizations throughout the Southern California area. Readers are advised to call ahead to verify events, times, and ticket availability, which are subject to change. Should you find an error in a listing, please report it immediately to calendar@earlymusicla.org
The ++ symbol following a listing indicates the performers use period instruments and/or historically informed vocal styles.
revised February 5, 2010
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FEBRUARY, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
8:00 Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon, Music Director, Sean Smyth, narrator. The Galileo Project: Music by Vivaldi, Lully, Monteverdi, Galilei, Merula, Marini, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Zelenka, Telemann, Weiss, and Bach. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand, LA 90012
Friday, February 5, 2010
7:30 Biblical Sonatas and Bach, Dr. Ruta Bloomfield, harpsichord
The program will begin with two biblical sonatas Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722), immediate predecessor of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) as music director at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. Kuhnau wrote a set of six biblical sonatas for keyboard depicting various scenes from the Bible. He included descriptive titles for each movement so the listener could follow the story line. Dr. Bloomfield will perform The Combat between David and Goliath and Saul Cured through Music by David.
The concert will also include the only work by J.S. Bach to include similar descriptive titles to each movement, Capriccio in Bb Major, BWV 992. The performance will close with one of Bach’s most famous works for keyboard, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903.
The concert is free and open to the public. Master’s College (21726 Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall, CA www.masters.edu/music.
8:00 Opera UCLA & UCLA Philharmonia, -- Giasone by Francesco Cavalli Steven Stubbs, conductor, Peter Kazaras, stage director
West Coast premiere of the 17th century's most popular opera, Giasone, composed by Francisco Cavalli on a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, with a new critical edition by Ellen Rosand. Both comical and serious, Giasone is a decidedly unusual take on the Jason and Medea story.
Reserved
seating: $20, $10 UCLA faculty and staff, $5 for students (with ID),
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
8:00 Karen Swietlick, Fortepiano $20, $15 senior, SCRS, SCEMS Trinity Lutheran Church, 997 E. Walnut, Pasadena info 323 254-9613 or www.harpsichordcenter.com
Saturday, February 6, 2010
7:30 Guild of St. George and the Wessex Consort On a Winter's Eve, song, dance and conversation from Elizabethan England. $20, students, Seniors, SCEMS $15 St Matthias Epispocal Church, 7056 Washington, Whittier. information: 562 692-1434 www.guildofstgeorge.org
8:00 Ronn McFarlane, lutenist Program: compositions by Dowland, Leroy, J.S. Bach and Ronn McFarlane. $15 for SCEMS members. Murphy Recital Hall, Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU drive, Los Angeles 310 338-7588 www.lmu.edu
Sunday, February 7, 2010
2:00 Opera UCLA & UCLA Philharmonia, -- Giasone by Francesco Cavalli Steven Stubbs, conductor, Peter Kazaras, stage director
West Coast premiere of the 17th century's most popular opera, Giasone, composed by Francisco Cavalli on a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, with a new critical edition by Ellen Rosand. Both comical and serious, Giasone is a decidedly unusual take on the Jason and Medea story.
Reserved
seating: $20, $10 UCLA faculty and staff, $5 for students (with ID),
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
2:30 Karen Swietlick, Fortepiano $20, $15 senior, SCRS, SCEMS Contrapuntal Music Hall, Brentwood [ address upon ticket purchase] 323 254-9613 or www.harpsichordcenter.com
4:00 Harmonia Baroque, Love, Sweet Love, Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh, soprano $18, $14 SCEMS Oneonta Congregational Church 1515 Garfield Avenue South Pasadena, CA 91030 (one block north of Huntington Drive) http://www.oneonta.org/ map information 714 970-8545 www.harmoniabaroque.org
Friday,
February 12, 2010
7:30 Capella Artemisia (Bologna, Italy) “My
Sister, My Spouse: the Song of Songs in the Convents” free
United
University Church, USC
8:00 Opera UCLA & UCLA Philharmonia, -- Giasone by Francesco Cavalli Steven Stubbs, conductor, Peter Kazaras, stage director
West Coast premiere of the 17th century's most popular opera, Giasone, composed by Francisco Cavalli on a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, with a new critical edition by Ellen Rosand. Both comical and serious, Giasone is a decidedly unusual take on the Jason and Medea story.
Reserved seating: $20, $10 UCLA faculty and staff, $5 for students (with ID), Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Saturday, February 13, 2010
8:00 Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Glory of the Hapsburgs, Martin Haselbach, conductor, Kathryn Adduci, trumpet, Jesús León, tenor Program: music of the Vienna Imperial Court by Biber, Schmelzer, Popora, fux, Caldara, and Bertali. Zipper Concert Hall, 200 S Grand, LA www.musicaangelica.org
Sunday, February 14, 2010,
2:00 Opera UCLA & UCLA Philharmonia, -- Giasone by Francesco Cavalli Steven Stubbs, conductor, Peter Kazaras, stage director
West Coast premiere of the 17th century's most popular opera, Giasone, composed by Francisco Cavalli on a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, with a new critical edition by Ellen Rosand. Both comical and serious, Giasone is a decidedly unusual take on the Jason and Medea story.
Reserved seating: $20, $10 UCLA faculty and staff, $5 for students (with ID), Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
4:00 Harmonia Baroque, Love, Sweet Love, Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh, soprano $18, $14 SCEMS Concordia University (Good Shepherd Chapel) 1530 Concordia West Irvine, CA 92612 http://www.cui.edu/ map
4:00 Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Glory of the Hapsburgs, Martin Haselbach, conductor, Kathryn Adduci, trumpet, Jesús León, tenor Program: music of the Vienna Imperial Court by Biber, Schmelzer, Popora, fux, Caldara, and Bertali. The Broad Stage, Santa Monica Blvd. and 11th St., Santa Monica www.musicaangelica.org
Saturday, February 20, 2010
8:00 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Baroque + Andrew Shulman, cello; Tereza Stanislav, violin; Josefina Vergara, violin; Sara Thornblade, violin; Allan Vogel, Oboe d'amore. Program: Purcell, Chacony in G minor; Vivaldi, Cello Concerto in C minor; Bach, Concerto in D major for Three Violins [transcription of BWV 1064], Bach, oboe d'amore Concerto in A major; Mendlessohn, Sinfonia No.5 in b-flat major. $100-18 Alex Theatre, 216 N Brand, Glendale www.laco.org
Sunday, February 21, 2010
4:00 Harmonia Baroque, Love, Sweet Love, Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh, soprano $18, $14 SCEMS : Peninsula Community Church 5640 W. Crestridge Road Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 http://www.peninsulacommunitychurch.com/ map
4:00 Program for Dual Organs, Namhee Han and S. Wayne Foster Program will include music of Bach, Soler, Merkel and Gerre Hancock $20,
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, 540 S. Commonwealth Avenue (at 6th St.), Los Angeles 90020 213 365-1341 www.fccla.org
7:00 Bach Collegium San Diego, Ruben Valenzuela, conductor. Bach, the Six Motets $35,25,15. Murphy Recital Hall, Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU drive, Los Angeles
7:00 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Baroque + Andrew Shulman, cello; Tereza Stanislav, violin; Josefina Vergara, violin; Sara Thornblade, violin; Allan Vogel, Oboe d'amore. Program: Purcell, Chacony in G minor; Vivaldi, Cello Concerto in C minor; Bach, Concerto in D major for Three Violins [transcription of BWV 1064], Bach, oboe d'amore Concerto in A major; Mendlessohn, Sinfonia No.5 in b-flat major. $100-18 Royce Hall, UCLA Royce Drive off Sunset Boulevard www.laco.org
7:00 Bach Collegium, San Diego, Reuben Valenzuela, conductor. $35, 25,15 Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, Los angeles 90045 619.341.1726, bachcollegiumsd.org
Friday, February 26,2010
8:00 Bach, Mass in B minor Dr Richard Marlow, guest conductor. All Saints Choir and soloists $25, seniors & students $15 All Saints Church, 504 N. Camden Dr., Beverly Hills 310 275-0123 ext 12
MARCH, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:00 LACO; Baroque Conversations with Allan Vogel ~$40 Zipper Concert Hall
Friday, March 5, 2010
Friday,
March 5, 2010
8:00 Thornton Baroque Sinfonia “Fire,
Heaven, Earth, and Water: Elemental
Music of the German Baroque”
free Newman Recital Hall, USC
Sacred music by
Ludiwg Senfl, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Vierdanck, and Hermann
Schein
Virtuoso Fireworks for viola d'amore by Heinrich Biber
Georg Philipp Telemann's Wassermusik "Hamburger Ebb und Flut"
8:00 Daniel Taylor and Suzie LeBlanc and the Theatre of Early Music, Romantic Duets in the Italian Tradition $25 , 20 St James by the Sea, 743 Prospect St, La Jolla 90237 www.sdems.org ++
Sunday, March 7, 2010
2:30 Los Angeles Baroque Players $20, $15 senior, SCRS, SCEMS Contrapuntal Music Hall, Brentwood [ address upon ticket purchase] 323 254-9613 or www.harpsichordcenter.com
Sunday, March 14, 2010
7:30 LA Phil Organ Series, Hector Olivera, organist. Program of Bach, Liszt, Franck, and Olivera Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand, Los Angeles 90012 www.laphil.com
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
8:00 Anonymous 4, A Medieval Ladymass Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand, LA 90012
Friday, March 26, 2010
8:00 Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Bach, St John Passion. Martin Haselböck, conductor; Tilman Lichdi, Evangelist; Mary Wilson, soprano;; Catherine Webster, soprano; Ian Howell, counter tenor; Pablo Corá, tenor; Michael Dean, baritone; Scott Graff, baritone Cerritos Center for the Performin Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos, 90703 directions: www.cerritoscenter.org
Saturday, March 27, 2010
7:30
Ciaramella, directed by Adam & Rotem Gilbert, “O sidus
Hyspanie: Music of Renaissance Spain”
United University
Church, USC. www.ciaramella.org
8:00
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Bach, St John Passion. Martin
Haselböck, conductor; Tilman Lichdi, Evangelist; Mary Wilson,
soprano;; Catherine Webster, soprano; Ian Howell, counter tenor;
Pablo Corá, tenor; Michael Dean, baritone; Scott Graff,
baritone. First Methodist Church, 500 E. Colorado, Pasadena
www.musicaangelica.org
Sunday, March 28, 2010
3:00 The Organ Music of Bach, William Petersen, organist Free Admission, Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, 150 E. 4th St, Claremont CA 91711
Pomona College organist William Peterson performs works including two of Bach’s large works from his Leipzig period, the Prelude and Fugue in E Minor (BWV 548) and Prelude and Fugue in B Minor (BWV 544). This esteemed Pomona College organist has offered recitals across the United States, presenting many all-Bach programs, and performances of 17th-century music, especially that of Sweelinck and Scheidt. In recent years he has worked extensively, both as performer and scholar, on French and Belgian organ music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Peterson will perform on the Pomona College Hill Memorial Organ built by C.B. Fisk, Inc. The 3,519-piped instrument is eclectic, combining facets of the work of 19th-century French organ-builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, a tradition of more powerful reed stops, and German organ-making traditions going back to the 14th century. The organ was dedicated in 2002.
4:00 Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Bach, St John Passion. Martin Haselböck, conductor; Tilman Lichdi, Evangelist; Mary Wilson, soprano;; Catherine Webster, soprano; Ian Howell, counter tenor; Pablo Corá, tenor; Michael Dean, baritone; Scott Graff, baritone. First Methodist Church, 1008 11th St., Santa Monica www.musicaangelica.org