Katherine Heater, harpsichord,; Farley Pearce, viola da gamba; Matthew Xie, theorbo/ baroque guitar; Vicki Melin, traverso and recorder; Pauline Kempf, violin
Photo Credit: Breene Yuen
Coming Up with Calliope East Bay Music and Arts
November 17th: Les Amours des Dieux; Cantatas of Clerambault and Monteclair with Soprano, Bethany Hill
4:00 PM
St. Alban's Episcopal Church (map)
$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
Tickets available through Eventbrite.
Nash Baroque, with soprano Bethany Hill, bring to life tales of love, despair and triumph from 18th century France, with flute, violin, viola da gamba, theorbo and harpsichord, in a program entitled “Les Amours des Dieux”.
The cantatas of Michel Pignolet de Montéclair and Louis Nicolas Clérambault unfold as miniature dramas featuring mythological Greek gods and humans with all their passions, weaknesses and heartbreak. “Every myth is a drama in human form”, as Gaston Bachelard put it, and these intimate vocal works, together with richly evocative instrumental dance suites of Couperin, Phillidor and LeClair explore timeless themes of love, loss and metamorphosis that echo through the ages.
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Huzzah!
Nominated to the final round of voting for the Bay Area’s 2023 “Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards” in Best Dance Performance for our collaboration with Dance Through Time of Pulcinella’s Dream! Music, Dance and Pantomime of the 18thc. Italian Theatre
Made Possible by an Intermusic SF MGP grant and Individual Donors like you!
And Stay Tuned! New performances of Pantomime Ballet and Commedia d’elle Arte on
the English Stage- in the works for June 2025. *************
“The Emperor of the Moon” with the music of Henry Purcell, John Blow, John Eccles and Gottfried Finger.**************
Produced by the San Francisco Early Music Society and made possible with the generous assistance of an MGP grant from Intermusic SF!
Photos by Kyle Sugioka-Stone