Local concerts
Here we list upcoming concerts that include recorders or other early instruments, or are recommended by or include our members or conductors.
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We are fortunate that there are many great concerts in Southern California all year. We cannot list them all.
Check these lists for other concerts:
Southern California Early Music Society maintains a calendar of early music performances in Southern California.
Chamber Music Newsletter From the South Bay has a list of chamber music performances in Southern California, many of them free.
...and if you just want to stay home and listen, check out KUSC (91.5 FM). They have a wonderful "Baroque Show" each Sunday morning which is delightful; it airs 10 a.m. to noon. The "Baroque Hour" has grown to two! It features recorders every so often, and includes some of our favorite composers of that period.
...or listen on the Internet. Recorder Radio, www.Recorder-Radio.com provides music of good audio quality streamed over the internet. You might also try: http://avrobaroque.radio.de/, an around-the-clock Baroque music station, or http://www.radio4.nl/page/live/breedband, a classical music station from the Netherlands.
Tuesday, March 9 at 12:15 p.m. Music at Mudd presents Natur with Tara Bailey, soprano, Bianca Hall, mezzo-soprano, Douglas Law, countertenor, Stephan Hass, harpsichord & recorder. Program: Music by Monteverdi, Caccini, Morley, Weelkes, Dufay & More. Admission is Free. Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building at the Claremont School of Theology, 1325 N. College, Claremont. For more information, call 909.607.3289 or e-mail to sylvia.quintana@cgu.edu.
Wednesday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m. (preconcert talk at 7:40) Jordi Savall, viola da gamba. Jordi Savall brings “absolute integrity with a profound ability to communicate . . . always tangibly expressive” (The New York Times) to the Doheny Mansion in a solo program surveying the gamba repertoire from Hume and Ferrabosco to Bach and Abel. Tickets are $75. Location: Doheny Mansion, 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, Ca 90007-2518. For information and tickets, visit: dacamera.org
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. Anonymous 4 presents “A Medieval Ladymass.” Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand, LA 90012
Saturday, March 20 at 8:00 p.m. Voces Intimae performs piano trios of Mendelsohn, Shubert, and Hummel on period instruments, including a restored 1827 fortepiano. Tickets are $66 and $88. Location: Doheny Mansion, 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, Ca 90007-2518. For more information and tickets, visit: dacamera.org
Tuesday March 23 at 12:15 p.m. Music at Mudd presents Faculty Concert: Concordia Clarimontis 17th-Century English Song with Carol Lisek, contralto, Robert Zappulla, harpsichord & director. Admission is FREE. Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building at the Claremont School of Theology, 1325 N. College, Claremont. For more information: 909.607.3289 or E-mail sylvia.quintana@cgu.edu.
Friday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 28 at 4:00 p.m. Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Martin Haselböck, conductor, performs Bach, St John Passion. Soloists are Tilman Lichdi, Mary Wilson, soprano; Catherine Webster, soprano; Ian Howell, counter tenor; Pablo Corá, tenor; Michael Dean, baritone; and Scott Graff, baritone. -- The Friday, March 26 performance is at 8:00 p.m. at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos, 90703. For more information and tickets visit: www.cerritoscenter.org. -- The Saturday, March 27 performance is at is at 8:00 p.m. at the First Methodist Church, 500 E. Colorado, Pasadena. For more information, visit www.musicaangelica.org -- The Sunday, March 28 performance is at 4:00 p.m. at the First Methodist Church of Santa Monica, 1008 11th St., Santa Monica For more information, visit www.musicaangelica.org
Of Special Interest
Ciaramella, directed by Adam & Rotem Gilbert, presents “O sidus Hyspanie: Music of Renaissance Spain” Saturday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. Location: United University Church at USC. For more information, visit www.ciaramella.org
Sunday, March 28 at 3:00 p.m. William Peterson, organist, performs music by Bach. Admission is Free. Location: 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).
Sunday, March 28 at 6:00 p.m. Sundays Live: The Capitol Ensemble and the Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Capella, Peter Rutenberg, director. Program of Purcell, Handel and Bach. free Los Angeles Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles 90036 sundayslive.org This program also streams on the sundayslive website and it is broadcast on KCSN 88.5 FM