Tuesday, July 6, 2010 – 12:30pm
Marilyn Thompson, piano
Beni Shinohara, violin
Claude Debussy: Sonata in G minor
Maurice Ravel: Sonata in G Major
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Thursday, July 8, 2010 – 8pm
San Francisco International Music Festival:
3rd Milton & Peggy Salkind International Piano Duo Festival
The Milton and Peggy Salkind International Piano Duo Festival is the United States’ first and foremost international music festival solely dedicated to the art of the piano duo. Now entering its 3rd season, the Salkind International Piano Duo Festival spotlights world-class artists in a series of concerts that capture the spirit of similar European and Russian festivals. This year, an extraordinary array of distinguished artists from Canada, Italy, Argentina, Venezuela, Latvia, and the United States will perform a remarkable series of seven concerts.
The 2010 Salkind Festival invites you to experience a showcase of “American Masterpieces” - an intriguing mix of traditional, innovative and seldom-heard compositions for piano duo from North and South America presented in the beautiful concert and recital halls at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the rich sonorities and rewarding repertoire of the piano duo genre.
Festival Artists: Duo Turgeon (Canada); Anderson & Roe (USA); Marina & Fred Hammond Duo (Argentina & Venezuela); Duo Pianistico di Firenze (Italy); The Ruslan & Raffi Piano Duo (Latvia); Pas De Duo (Berkeley); The Angelo Piano Duo (San Francisco).
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
$10 - $25
Information: (415) 705-0846
www.sfmf.org
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Thursday, July 8, 2010 – 8pm
American Bach Soloists:
Academy-In-Action
Three concerts of solo and chamber works performed by the Academy students, presented in the Conservatory’s intimate Osher Salon. This series of concerts is your first chance to hear the 2010 class of Academy students and tickets for these concerts are extremely limited due to the small space, so early reservations are recommended.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
$5 General Admission
Information: (415) 621-7900
www.americanbach.org
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Friday, July 9, 2010 – 8pm
San Francisco International Music Festival:
3rd Milton & Peggy Salkind International Piano Duo Festival
The Milton and Peggy Salkind International Piano Duo Festival is the United States’ first and foremost international music festival solely dedicated to the art of the piano duo. Now entering its 3rd season, the Salkind International Piano Duo Festival spotlights world-class artists in a series of concerts that capture the spirit of similar European and Russian festivals. This year, an extraordinary array of distinguished artists from Canada, Italy, Argentina, Venezuela, Latvia, and the United States will perform a remarkable series of seven concerts.
The 2010 Salkind Festival invites you to experience a showcase of “American Masterpieces” - an intriguing mix of traditional, innovative and seldom-heard compositions for piano duo from North and South America presented in the beautiful concert and recital halls at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the rich sonorities and rewarding repertoire of the piano duo genre.
Festival Artists: Duo Turgeon (Canada); Anderson & Roe (USA); Marina & Fred Hammond Duo (Argentina & Venezuela); Duo Pianistico di Firenze (Italy); The Ruslan & Raffi Piano Duo (Latvia); Pas De Duo (Berkeley); The Angelo Piano Duo (San Francisco).
July 9: "American Masterpieces from South America" - program will feature seldom-heard masterpieces for piano duo from South America.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
$20 - $25
Information: (415) 705-0846
www.sfmf.org
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Friday, July 9, 2010 – 8pm
American Bach Soloists:
Academy-In-Action
Three concerts of solo and chamber works performed by the Academy students, presented in the Conservatory’s intimate Osher Salon. This series of concerts is your first chance to hear the 2010 class of Academy students and tickets for these concerts are extremely limited due to the small space, so early reservations are recommended.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
$5 General Admission
Information: (415) 621-7900
www.americanbach.org
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Saturday, July 10, 2010 – 2pm
East Meets West Chamber Music Concert Featuring Bridge Chamber Virtuosi
Enjoy a chamber music concert Bridge Chamber Virtuosi, including the US premiere of “Shanghai Trilogy,” composed by Joan Huang for a combination of Western instruments, the pipa (a four-stringed Chinese instrument) and multimedia.
Asian Art Museum
San Francisco
FREE with museum admission
Information: (415) 581-3500
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Saturday, July 10, 2010 – 8pm
San Francisco International Music Festival:
3rd Milton & Peggy Salkind International Piano Duo Festival
The Milton and Peggy Salkind International Piano Duo Festival is the United States’ first and foremost international music festival solely dedicated to the art of the piano duo. Now entering its 3rd season, the Salkind International Piano Duo Festival spotlights world-class artists in a series of concerts that capture the spirit of similar European and Russian festivals. This year, an extraordinary array of distinguished artists from Canada, Italy, Argentina, Venezuela, Latvia, and the United States will perform a remarkable series of seven concerts.
The 2010 Salkind Festival invites you to experience a showcase of “American Masterpieces” - an intriguing mix of traditional, innovative and seldom-heard compositions for piano duo from North and South America presented in the beautiful concert and recital halls at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the rich sonorities and rewarding repertoire of the piano duo genre.
Festival Artists: Duo Turgeon (Canada); Anderson & Roe (USA); Marina & Fred Hammond Duo (Argentina & Venezuela); Duo Pianistico di Firenze (Italy); The Ruslan & Raffi Piano Duo (Latvia); Pas De Duo (Berkeley); The Angelo Piano Duo (San Francisco).
July 10: "American Masterpieces from North America" - program will feature masterpieces for piano duo from North America.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
$20 - $25
Information: (415) 705-0846
www.sfmf.org
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Saturday, July 10, 2010 – 8pm
American Bach Soloists:
Academy-In-Action
Three concerts of solo and chamber works performed by the Academy students, presented in the Conservatory’s intimate Osher Salon. This series of concerts is your first chance to hear the 2010 class of Academy students and tickets for these concerts are extremely limited due to the small space, so early reservations are recommended.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
$5 General Admission
Information: (415) 621-7900
www.americanbach.org
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Monday, July 12, 2010 – 8pm
American Bach Soloists:
Summerfest Concerts
Music from 17th century Italy and Germany.
A performance of rare gems which capture the exuberant dance rhythms and technical virtuosity of post-Renaissance compositions, including Barbara Strozzi's Cantata “L’Eraclito amoroso” (“Beloved Heraclitus”) and Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Partita No. 5 in G minor & Serenata “Der Nachtwächter” (“The Night-Watchman”).
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
$40 – 20; discounts for students, children and seniors over 65
Information: (415) 621-7900
www.americanbach.org
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 – 8pm
Summer Brass Festival at Menlo School:
Art of Sound: Bay Brass and Robert Huw Morgan in Concert
Hear classics with brass and organ: music by Gabrieli, Mahler, Shostakovich, others. Performed by the Bay Brass!
Stanford Memorial Church
FREE
www.brass.menloschool.org
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 – 12:30pm
Joan Nagano, piano / Kay Stern, violin
Francesco Geminiani: Sonata in C minor, Op. 4
George Enescu: Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25
Jean Sibelius: Mazurka, Op. 81, No. 1
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 – 8pm
American Bach Soloists:
Summerfest Concerts
Early Classical Chamber Music.
An evening of music which defined the end of the Baroque period as celebrated masters such as Bach, Mozart, Boccherini and Haydn approached a new, less complicated style of clearly defined melodies over clear-cut harmonic accompaniment.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
$40 – 20; discounts for students, children and seniors over 65
Information: (415) 621-7900
www.americanbach.org
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Friday, July 16, 2010 – 8pm
sfSoundSeries:
Acousti-electric Music
An evening of instruments and electronics!
Featuring EKG (Kyle Bruckmann, oboe & electronics and Ernst Karel, electronics) performing their unique realization of Morton Feldman's Oboe and Orchestra using analog electronics and the premiere of a new work by Christopher Burns. The program also includes works by Luigi Nono, Mario Davidovsky, Denis Smalley, and Per Bloland.
sfSound members Matt Ingalls (clarinet), John Ingle (saxophone), Christopher Jones (piano), and Monica Scott (cello) also perform.
Community Music Center, San Francisco
San Francisco
$15 [$8 underemployed]
www.sfsound.org
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Friday, July 16, 2010 – 7:30pm
Wayne Lee and Miles Graber play the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Beethoven: The 10 Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Wayne Lee, violin
Miles Graber, piano
Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 No. 1
Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 12 No. 2
Sonata No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 12 No. 3
Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23
Crowden Music Center
Berkeley
FREE
Information: (510) 388-7437
www.crowden.org
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Friday, July 16, 2010 – 8pm
American Bach Soloists:
Academy Showcase: The Next Generation
The 2010 class of the American Bach Soloists Academy – our next generation of virtuoso early music specialists – will be featured in their final, exclusive performance of the summer session. Works by the great masters of the Baroque will be performed. This exciting evening will conclude with the presentation of the Henry I. Goldberg Award, a cash prize that includes an invitation for one Academy member to appear with the American Bach Soloists in next year’s subscription season.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
$20 General Admission
Information: (415) 621-7900
www.americanbach.org
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Saturday, July 17, 2010 – 7pm
Duo Sonidos
Duo Sonidos brings together the talents of violinist, William Knuth and guitarist, Adam Levin. Based in Boston and Madrid, the duo is at the vanguard of the guitar chamber music world. With a mission of expanding guitar chamber music repertoire, Duo Sonidos is dedicated to commissioning and inspiring new works for the duo combination. This commitment to creating a new body of chamber music has led to collaborations with some of the world’s most renowned composers, including works by Jan Freidlin (Israel) and Eduardo Morales-Caso (Cuba-Spain) on ALR Records label. Previous and current projects include commissioning new works from composers in Spain, Belgium, Israel, and the United States as well as original arrangements made by the duo themselves. Levin and Knuth have performed throughout the United States and Europe and have been honored as US Fulbright Scholars in the field of music performance in Madrid, Spain and Vienna, Austria respectively.
Duo Sonidos is releasing their debut CD at Electric Works Gallery, which explores both traditional and contemporary Latin and Spanish repertoire. It will be available for purchase at the concert and can also be found at www.adamlevinguitar.com.
Electric Works
San Francisco
$10
www.adamlevinguitar.com
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Saturday, July 17, 2010 – 8pm
American Bach Soloists:
Masterworks Series
Handel’s LA RESURREZIONE
An evening of Baroque oratorio will feature Handel’s “operatic” masterwork, La Resurrezione, which depicts the struggle of Lucifer and an Angel for possession of the earthly realm.
A special pre-concert lecture, “Insights on Handel’s La Resurrezione” by Steven Lehning, will be offered before the concert on Saturday July 17 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert lecture is free to the public.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
$40 – 20; discounts for students, children and seniors over 65
Information: (415) 621-7900
www.americanbach.org
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Sunday, July 18, 2010 – 4pm
Daniel Glover
Pianist Daniel Glover celebrates the 100th Birthday of Samuel Barber and 200th Birthday of Frederic Chopin with an innovative program that alternates works in similar genres by the two great composers. These include Nocturnes, Ballades, as well as works inspired by nationalism, such as Barber's Excursions and Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise. Rounding out the program will be one of the highlights of 20th Century American piano music, Barber's Sonata in E-flat minor, Opus 26. www.danielgloverpianist.com
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, July 15, 2010 – 7pm
Temescal String Quartet and Friends
Founded in 2007, the Temescal String Quartet brought together life-long friends as a committed ensemble, dedicated to the study and performance of the great masterworks of the string quartet literature.
Joined by friends Elizabeth Tuma, cello and Tom Rose, clarinet, the Temescal String Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet in A minor, op. 13 and the Brahms Clarinet Quintet in the intimate setting of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Berkeley.
Church of the Good Shepherd
Berkeley
$15, $12 students/seniors
Information: (510) 769-2968
www.temescalquartet.com
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 – 7:30pm
Wayne Lee and Miles Graber play the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Beethoven: The 10 Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Wayne Lee, violin
Miles Graber, piano
Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 "Spring"
Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 30 No. 1
Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2
Crowden Music Center
Berkeley
FREE
Information: (510) 388-7437
www.crowden.org
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 – 12:30pm
Kumaran Arul, piano
Frédéric Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Mazurkas
This concert is supported in part with a grant from the Helen von Ammon Fund for Emerging Artists.
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Friday, July 23, 2010 – 7pm
Temescal String Quartet:
Music in the Sunnyside Conservatory
The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory in cooperation with the Rec. & Park Dept. are happy to announce the first Fundraising event in the Conservatory to help provide more Music and Arts, Community Events, and opportunities to Learn while having Fun in this historic site.
Music will be provided by Temescal String Quartet with a special appearance by clarinetist Tom Rose. These professional musicians have portfolios which include performances with the San Francisco Opera orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet orchestra and many other Bay Area chamber orchestras, quintets, quartets, and local musical groups.
A per person donation of $20 for the Performance is suggested but everyone is welcome to enjoy the evening with or without a financial contribution. Homemade finger sandwiches, pastries and hot beverages will be available, donations appreciated, from the kitchens of neighbors and local restaurants. A contribution of your favorite recipe to the refreshment table is appreciated; please call: 334-3601 or write: info@sunnysideconservatory.org.
Sunnyside Conservatory
San Francisco
$20 donation
Information: (415) 334-3601
www.sunnysideconservatory.org
www.temescalquartet.com
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Friday, July 23, 2010 – 7:30pm
Wayne Lee and Miles Graber play the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Beethoven: The 10 Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Wayne Lee, violin
Miles Graber, piano
Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3
Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"
Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96
Crowden Music Center
Berkeley
FREE
Information: (510) 388-7437
www.crowden.org
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Friday, July 23, 2010 – 8pm
Music@Menlo:
Concert Program I: The Seasons
Concert Program I: The Seasons
July 23 | 8:00 p.m. | The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $60/$50 adult; $30/$20 student
Music@Menlo’s 2010 festival opens with a program of two landmark works that share a common inspiration but use vastly contrasting languages. Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons renders the magic of the seasons in sparkling Italianate virtuosity alongside American maverick George Crumb’s kaleidoscopic Music for a Summer Evening.
Vivaldi The Four Seasons (1723)
Crumb Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (1974)
ARTISTS
Inon Barnatan, harpsichord; Gilbert Kalish, piano; Wu Han, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Erin Keefe, violin; Philip Setzer, violin; Ian
Swensen, violin; Scott Pingel, bass; Miró Quartet; Christopher Froh, percussion; Ayano Kataoka, percussion
The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Atherton
$60/$50 adult; $30/$20 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Friday, July 23, 2010 – 8pm
Old First Concerts:
Solo Acoustic Wizards: Ancient & Modern
Observe the result of almost supernatural musical aptitude combined with thousands of hours training in some of the world’s most esoteric and demanding musical methods including absolute breath manipulation, non-linear resonance tunings and expanded, intuitive song structuring. Two different performers will each perform solo sets of music and sounds that are beyond yet parallel to our ordinary, mundane realm.
Michael Chikuzen Gould is a Grandmaster of shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese bamboo flute initially utilized as a breath awareness and meditation tool by the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism. The classical repertoire draws from chant, nature and breath and has evolved fluidly over the past 1000 years in multiple directions. Chikuzen sensei is a transmitter of the dokyoku lineage, an extremely expressive and virtuosic style developed by Watazumido in the 20th century and carried on by shakuhachi masters such as Katsuya Yokoyama and Yoshinobu Taniguchi with whom Chikuzen trained in Japan for 15 years.
Mark Deutsch is a visionary artist with a background in non-linear mathematics, sacred systems and cosmology. He has trained and performed extensively in orchestral, jazz, avant-garde, improvisational, and world music traditions on the bass and sitar. Whilst studying sitar and North Indian classical music with the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, Mark began delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and their underlying frequency structures. These studies culminated in 1999 with Mark being awarded the US patent for his ground breaking new instrument the Bazantar—a five-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. The result is a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing soundscape of resonance, and evokes all the power of Western classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Saturday, July 24, 2010 – 7:30pm
Music@Menlo:
Encounter I: Das Land ohne Musik and the Search for English Musical Identity, with R. Larry Todd
Encounter I: Das Land ohne Musik and the Search for
English Musical Identity, with R. Larry Todd
July 24 | 7:30 p.m. | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $42 adult; $20 student
Music@Menlo’s signature series of evening-length multimedia symposia, led by today’s most renowned musical authorities, adds an integral dimension to the festival experience. Acclaimed author and lecturer R. Larry Todd examines England’s musical renaissance led by Edward Elgar, William Walton, and other leading English composers of the early twentieth century, who steadily rebuilt their country’s musical profile, shaking the “land without music” epithet.
Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$42 adult; $20 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Sunday, July 25, 2010 – 2pm
Music@Menlo:
Carte Blanche Concert I: Schubert’s Winterreise
Randall Scarlata, baritone, and Gilbert Kalish, piano
Music@Menlo’s series of artist-curated recitals showcases individual festival musicians and their singular musical passions. Baritone Randall Scarlata and pianist Gilbert Kalish perform Schubert’s magnificent Winterreise, one of the signposts of the lieder repertoire and a definitive work of the Romantic master’s oeuvre.
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$70 adult; $35 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Sunday, July 25, 2010 – 4pm
Old First Concerts:
Trevor Stephenson
Works by Bach, Handel and Scarlatti.
After hearing a performance of Mozart's piano sonatas on a fortepiano as a graduate student, Trevor Stephenson began an exhaustive exploration of the different expressive and tonal possibilities of historical keyboard instruments. Working with Norman Sheppard, he began building and customizing his own historical instruments, ranging from Italian Renaissance harpsichords to Victorian pianos. These instruments are featured in a set of twelve recordings on the Light & Shadow label. Trevor Stephenson founded the Madison Bach Musicians in 2004 and currently serves as artistic director. He tours throughout the United States as performer and lecturer. Further information at: trevorstephenson.com and madisonbachmusicians.org.
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
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Sunday, July 25, 2010 – 6pm
Music@Menlo:
Concert Program II: The English Voice
Branded as “a land without music” throughout the nineteenth century, England experienced a musical rebirth at the turn of the twentieth. Music@Menlo’s second Concert Program features Walton’s Piano Quartet and Elgar’s Piano Quintet, this period’s finest chamber works, along with A Charm of Lullabies by Benjamin Britten, the heir apparent to the twentieth-century English renaissance.
Britten A Charm of Lullabies, op. 41 (1947)
Walton Piano Quartet (1918–1919, rev. 1921, 1975)
Elgar Piano Quintet in a minor, op. 84 (1918–1919)
ARTISTS
Sasha Cooke, soprano; Inon Barnatan, piano; Wu Han, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Lily Francis, viola; David Finckel, cello; Miró Quartet
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$72 adult; $35 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Sunday, July 25, 2010 – 7pm
Temescal String Quartet:
Composers' Birthday Celebration
The Temescal String Quartet celebrates the birthdays of composers Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810) and Samuel Barber (March 9, 1910), performing two masterworks of the string quartet literature: Schumann's Quartet, op. 41 no. 1, and Barber's String Quartet, op. 11, which includes his famous "Adagio."
The founding of the Temescal String Quartet in 2007 brought together life-long friends as a committed ensemble, balancing our careers as members of the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras and the demands of daily life.
The quartet sprang from the desire for a more satisfying personal musical experience. The name Temescal (a ritual bath house or sweat lodge found in pre-Hispanic central and southern Mexico) reflects the spiritual and physical renewal that we find while exploring our music.
Creating a genuine ensemble is a journey of discovery, both for each other and of ourselves. The artistic complexities are endlessly challenging and always serve to remind us that there is something new to be found every time we play together.
We play our music for love and invite you, the audience, to join us in this journey of musical discovery.
Church of the Good Shepherd
Berkeley
$15, $12 students/seniors
Information: (510) 769-2968
www.temescalquartet.com
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Monday, July 26, 2010 – 8pm
Music@Menlo:
Concert Program II: The English Voice
Branded as “a land without music” throughout the nineteenth century, England experienced a musical rebirth at the turn of the twentieth. Music@Menlo’s second Concert Program features Walton’s Piano Quartet and Elgar’s Piano Quintet, this period’s finest chamber works, along with A Charm of Lullabies by Benjamin Britten, the heir apparent to the twentieth-century English renaissance.
Britten A Charm of Lullabies, op. 41 (1947)
Walton Piano Quartet (1918–1919, rev. 1921, 1975)
Elgar Piano Quintet in a minor, op. 84 (1918–1919)
ARTISTS
Sasha Cooke, soprano; Inon Barnatan, piano; Wu Han, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Lily Francis, viola; David Finckel, cello; Miró Quartet
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Atherton
$72 adult; $35 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 – 12:30pm
TEMESCAL STRING QUARTET
with Tom Rose, clarinet
Barbara Riccardi / Katherine Button, violins
Jonna Hervig, viola / Ruth Lane, cello
Johannes Brahms: Quintet, Op. 115, in B minor for Clarinet and String Quartet
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
660 California Street
San Francisco
Donation: $5
www.NoontimeConcerts.org
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 – 8pm
Music@Menlo:
Concert Program II: The English Voice
Branded as “a land without music” throughout the nineteenth century, England experienced a musical rebirth at the turn of the twentieth. Music@Menlo’s second Concert Program features Walton’s Piano Quartet and Elgar’s Piano Quintet, this period’s finest chamber works, along with A Charm of Lullabies by Benjamin Britten, the heir apparent to the twentieth-century English renaissance.
Britten A Charm of Lullabies, op. 41 (1947)
Walton Piano Quartet (1918–1919, rev. 1921, 1975)
Elgar Piano Quintet in a minor, op. 84 (1918–1919)
ARTISTS
Sasha Cooke, soprano; Inon Barnatan, piano; Wu Han, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Lily Francis, viola; David Finckel, cello; Miró Quartet
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
Tickets: $52–$38 adult; $25–$10 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 – 8pm
Music@Menlo:
Carte Blanche Concert II: Schumann and Chopin
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Music@Menlo’s series of artist-curated recitals showcases individual festival musicians and their singular musical passions. Pianist Jeffrey Kahane marks the bicentennial of two iconic composers of the Romantic era with a luminous recital program of music by Robert Schumann and Fryderyk Chopin, whose innovative approach to the instrument revolutionized the art of pianism.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
$65/$45 adult; $32/$15 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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Friday, July 30, 2010 – 8pm
Ultra World X-tet
Ultra World X-tet performs a joyful, exotic, soulful and elegant fusion of East and West for the 21st Century. Originating and developing their sound working a regular gig at a small jazz club in downtown San Francisco, the X-tet's reputation spread through word-of-mouth and led to concerts at Herbst Theater, San Francisco City Hall and at the San Francisco Symphony. This is a fresh, new San Francisco sound. Check it out!
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
Information: (415) 474-1608
$17; $14 students & seniors
www.oldfirstconcerts.org
www.garyschwantes.com/uwxtet.htm
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 – 8pm
Music@Menlo:
Concert Program III: Vienna
The summer’s third Concert Program celebrates the great musical tradition of Vienna, the center of Western music from the early eighteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth, with works by Haydn, Beethoven (Serioso Quartet), Brahms (Opus 36 Sextet), and the iconoclastic Arnold Schoenberg (Chamber Symphony no. 1, arranged for chamber ensemble by Anton Webern).
Haydn Keyboard Concertino in C Major, Hob. XIV: 11 (1760)
Beethoven String Quartet in f minor, op. 95, Serioso (1810–1811)
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony no. 1, op. 9 (1922; arr. Webern, 1922–1923)
Brahms Sextet no. 2 in G Major, op. 36 (1864)
ARTISTS
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Gilbert Kalish, piano; Wu Han, piano; Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Erin Keefe, violin;
Lily Francis, violin/viola; David Finckel, cello; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello; Miró Quartet
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Palo Alto
$72–$38 adult; $35–$10 student
Information: (650) 331-0202
www.musicatmenlo.org
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