Join Chanticleer for an evening of meditation and mindfulness. Let your worries drift away as you gain a new perspective on the world and lose yourself in sublime melody and gentle harmony. Ancient traditions give structure to this timeless evening ritual of contemplation and reflection. Music will include prayerful Gregorian and Buddhist chant, meditative Renaissance […]
Berkeley
Vox Alta presents Deep In the Night (Berkeley, CA)
The depths of night encompass many ideas: stillness and sleep, love and loss, peace and passion. Vox Alta — a collaborative group of eight sopranos and altos [in the San Francisco Bay Area] — will sing works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Gustav Holst, Zoltan Kodaly, Karin Rehnqvist, and more. This concert is a benefit […]
11/4, San Francisco Girls Chorus: This Is What It Means
The San Francisco Girls Chorus (SFGC) launches its 2023-2024 season with This Is What It Means, a concert featuring the Premier Ensemble co-presented and performed with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) as part of the statewide California Festival. Minnesota Public Radio describes the SFGC as “smooth, perfect, yet very identifiable” while Gramophone praises their “beauty […]
5/19, U.S. Premiere of Shvedov’s Liturgy
Slavyanka Russian Chorus presents the U.S. premiere of Konstantin Shvedov’s Liturgy, a rarely-performed Russian sacred masterwork for mixed choir that was written more than one hundred years ago. Before the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution, a revival of sacred music centered at the Moscow Synodal School. Konstanin Shvedov wrote his Liturgy […]
San Francisco Bach Choir: BACH – MASS IN B MINOR
Perhaps the greatest choral work ever written, J.S. Bach‘s masterwork offers a journey of heart and soul: dazzling, tender, and powerful. Although universally recognized as a pinnacle of human creativity, at its core the Mass in B-Minor is a personal expression of spiritual devotion that transcends religious boundaries. The San Francisco Bach Choir, Magen Solomon, […]
In the Time of Brahms: Music for Women’s Voices from the Master and his Friends
Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble presents “In the Time of Brahms: Music for Women’s Voices from the Master and his Friends ” on Sunday, March 26, at 4PM at St. Mary Magdalen Church, 2005 Berryman St, Berkeley, and Saturday, April 1 at 7:30PM at St. Perpetua Catholic Church, 3454 Hamlin Ave. , Lafayette. On the heels […]