Saturday - FEBRUARY 6 - 7:30 pm
The Music of Benjamin Britten
Colby Roberts, tenor
San Francisco Opera Chorus tenor Colby Roberts is joined by
Kevin Rivard, horn; Dawn Harms, concertmaster and
Maestro Matthias Kuntzsch, conductor and piano, along with string
orchestra to perform the music of Benjamin Britten featuring Britten's
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. The program will also include
Britten's Les Illuminations, Sonnets of Michelangelo and Winter Words.
Saturday - MARCH 6 - 7:30 pm
Music of War & Peace
San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Director)
with guest artist DIANA ROWAN, Celtic Harp
and TOM CHANDLER, Oud
Our Artists-in-Residence, San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly,
Music Director), perform the first concert of their new season, Music in Time of War,
and are joined by guest artist Diana Rowan, Celtic Harp, with music from the Renaissance
and early Baroque featuring Tomas de Luis Victoria’s Missa pro Victoria (based
on Janequin’s Le Guerre) as well as Dufay’s Lamentio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae
Constantinopolitanae, Gallus’ Les Heroes, troubadour songs from the Crusades
and music of the Ottoman Empire.
Music of War & Peace
San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Director)
with guest artist DIANA ROWAN, Celtic Harp
and TOM CHANDLER, Oud
Our Artists-in-Residence, San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly,
Music Director), perform the first concert of their new season, Music in Time of War,
and are joined by guest artist Diana Rowan, Celtic Harp, with music from the Renaissance
and early Baroque featuring Tomas de Luis Victoria’s Missa pro Victoria (based
on Janequin’s Le Guerre) as well as Dufay’s Lamentio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae
Constantinopolitanae, Gallus’ Les Heroes, troubadour songs from the Crusades
and music of the Ottoman Empire.
Saturday - APRIL 17 - 7:30 pm
Ya Elah Women's Ensemble (Bon Singer, Director)
Ya Elah sparkles with the influence of Bulgarian village songs,
Sephardic and Middle Eastern melodies. The musicians have
backgrounds in cantorial, folk, jazz, ethnic and classical styles.
Composer, arranger, and singer with Kitka for 14 years,
Artistic Director Bon Singer is recognized as one of the world’s
premier directors of Bulgarian choral music.
Ya Elah sparkles with the influence of Bulgarian village songs,
Sephardic and Middle Eastern melodies. The musicians have
backgrounds in cantorial, folk, jazz, ethnic and classical styles.
Composer, arranger, and singer with Kitka for 14 years,
Artistic Director Bon Singer is recognized as one of the world’s
premier directors of Bulgarian choral music.
Saturday - MAY 15 - 7:30 pm
The Armed Man
San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Director)
The Renaissance drinking song L’homme Arme’ (The Armed Man) has served as the basis for more masses than any other tune in history. San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Music Director) performs both of Josquin des Prez’s versions: his Missa L’homme armé sexti toni and his most famous version, Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, a technical tour-de-force, containing numerous mensuration canons and contrapuntal display in which the L'homme armé tune is repeated for each movement on a consecutive step of the scale.
The Armed Man
San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Director)
The Renaissance drinking song L’homme Arme’ (The Armed Man) has served as the basis for more masses than any other tune in history. San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Music Director) performs both of Josquin des Prez’s versions: his Missa L’homme armé sexti toni and his most famous version, Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, a technical tour-de-force, containing numerous mensuration canons and contrapuntal display in which the L'homme armé tune is repeated for each movement on a consecutive step of the scale.
Saturday - JULY 31 - 7:30 pm
The Armed Woman
San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Director)
San Francisco Renaissance Voices (Todd Jolly, Music Director) presents this concert dedicated to proving that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword and features music composed by women from the Medieval through Baroque periods. Featured is Isabella Leonarda’s (1620-1704) Magnificat, Opus 19 #10 with other music by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Maria Xaveria Peruchona (1652-1709), Sister Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (c1602-1678), Maddelena Casulana (1544-1590),
the courtesan Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) and others.
Saturday - AUGUST 21 - 7:30 pm
Of Heloise
Soprano Nancy Ogle (University of MN professor of Music,
Surry Opera) and countertenor Justin Montigne (Chanticleer,
Clerestory) offer the Bay Area its first listen to selections from an
upcoming opera by Minnesota composer Jan Gilbert. Of Heloise
recounts part of the epic love-lost story of Heloise and Abelard,
whose letters, exchanged years after the end of their affair, bear
testament to the passion they held for each other and to the deep intellectual and artistic bond they shared until death. Modern music on a medieval theme anchors this original and exciting program.
Saturday - SEPTEMBER 25 - 7:30 pm
Teslim
Teslim means both ‘commit’ and ‘surrender’ in Turkish and features two well known
Bay Area musicians: violinist Kaila Flexer and Gari Hegedus on oud,
Turkish saz, Greek lauoto and other (mostly plucked) stringed instruments.
This potent duo performs Greek, Turkish and Sephardic music. In addition, both Flexer
and Hegedus are composers whose original music is based on these fertile traditions.
Teslim
Teslim means both ‘commit’ and ‘surrender’ in Turkish and features two well known
Bay Area musicians: violinist Kaila Flexer and Gari Hegedus on oud,
Turkish saz, Greek lauoto and other (mostly plucked) stringed instruments.
This potent duo performs Greek, Turkish and Sephardic music. In addition, both Flexer
and Hegedus are composers whose original music is based on these fertile traditions.
2010 Concerts
(Note: Tickets are available approximately 8 weeks before each show)
(Note: Tickets are available approximately 8 weeks before each show)
Saturday - JANUARY 16 - 7:30 pm
Castles and Countrysides
Brocelïande
We had such fun when Brocelïande made their Seventh Avenue debut on our 2009 Season that we decided to have them back to provide a celebratory start to 2010 with an inviting program of Celtic traditional and Early Music to welcome in the New Year! Included are Scottish songs by Robert Burns, Irish songs and dances, French traditional music, and songs of Tolkien. Featuring stellar vocal and instrumental harmonies, their entrancing sound is built on the interweaving of up to 3-part vocals with the lyrical
music of the Celtic harp, octave mandolin, cello,
12-string guitar, recorders, whistle, and percussion.
Brocelïande is Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, and Kris Yenney.
Castles and Countrysides
Brocelïande
We had such fun when Brocelïande made their Seventh Avenue debut on our 2009 Season that we decided to have them back to provide a celebratory start to 2010 with an inviting program of Celtic traditional and Early Music to welcome in the New Year! Included are Scottish songs by Robert Burns, Irish songs and dances, French traditional music, and songs of Tolkien. Featuring stellar vocal and instrumental harmonies, their entrancing sound is built on the interweaving of up to 3-part vocals with the lyrical
music of the Celtic harp, octave mandolin, cello,
12-string guitar, recorders, whistle, and percussion.
Brocelïande is Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, and Kris Yenney.
