Start your holiday season with this candle-lit concert, featuring Benjamin Britten’s exquisite A Ceremony of Carols alongside other traditional carols and those re-envisioned for chorus and harp.
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Our program features two Czech masterworks for piano quartet. A little over fifty years and two world wars separate Dvořák’s Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 87 (1889), and Bohuslav Martinů’s only Piano Quartet (1942), but they share a Czech spirit. Closing out our year of celebrating Gabriel Fauré will be a performance of one of the composer’s last works, the Second Cello Sonata, Op. 117 (1921).
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Orphic Percussion is a Bay Area based quartet with a passion for commissioning new music, whose musical selections will leave you electrified, taking you on the journey of bringing a new piece from ink on paper to life on the stage.
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Featuring Northern California’s most versatile and innovative players, Simple Excesses Quartet’s exciting repertoire is sets of compositions which unify jazz, classical chamber music, improvisation and experimental soundscapes. Intricate and dynamic and often surprising, the quartet brings the music, which are like a flight in the clouds for both performers and audiences.
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Join Duo Penseur for a night filled with fun, suspense, and tenderness with an an eclectic program that bridges the old with the new, sharing music by Jessie Montgomery, Beethoven, and Clara Schumann, and William Grant Still that is sure to bring a full spectrum of emotions that connect us in the human experience.
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