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Showing posts with label Magnificat. Show all posts
30 November 2014

in which I am a sacred choral music stud

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Several Sundays ago I attended two concerts in a row of sacred choral music (some of it officially sacred, all of it sanctified): Magnifi...
23 February 2012

world music, worldly music, a world of music

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I’m now slightly embarrassed to admit that I barely knew who Regina Carter * was when I went to her SF Performances concert last Saturday, ...
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29 November 2011

baroque devotions

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A couple of Sundays ago I went back to St Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco for Magnificat ’s second concert of the season, devoted mo...
19 October 2011

such notes as, warbled to the string, drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and made Hell grant what Love did seek

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Last Sunday I went to Magnificat ’s twentieth season opener, which was Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphee aux Enfers. I had not...
29 November 2010

fun stuff I may or may not get to: December

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It’s sugarplum month, but we don’t need to let that stop us. There will be Christmas-tinged items on this list, but that’s hardly avoidable,...
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26 September 2010

fun stuff I may or may not get to: October

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Cal Performances gets things off to a terrific start with several west coast premieres from the Mark Morris Dance Group : Socrate, Looky, a...
28 March 2010

fun stuff I may or may not get to: April

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April 8, 10, 11, and 13, Nicholas McGegan leads Philharmonia Baroque in Handel’s great opera, Orlando (one of the first operas I ever saw !...
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30 January 2010

fun stuff I may or may not get to: February

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San Francisco Performances has an evening of modern music with Midori on February 6, and their annual subscriber concert on February 9, fe...