Cascada de Flores – Sunday October 29, 2017 at 4 pm
Cascada de Flores celebrates love, life, and music, inspired by the troubadours of Mexico and the Americas.
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Minsky Duo – Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 4 pm
Minsky Duo Raises the Barn with an all-American program including a Bay Area premiere by Ned Rorem and a World Premiere by Aaron Andrew Hunt, plus works by Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, and John Adams.
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Alisa Rose and Amy Zanrosso are joined by special guest pianist Ian Scarfe in a program of nocturnes by Copland, Cage, Medtner, Chopin, Ravel, Crumb, Ogerman, Rose, Szymanowski, and Schnittke.
Continue readingJosé López – Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 4 pm
Pianist José López returns to Old First Concerts with a performance of rarely heard works by 19th century Cuban-born composers José Comellas and Nicolás Ruíz Espadero, along with Charles V. Alkan’s Symphony. We will also be raising funds to help Melisa Nieves, a fourth-year student at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music who lost her piano in the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Continue readingVeretski Pass – Friday, December 1, 2017 at 8 pm
Playing in an unbound, energetic village style this band of world renown klezmer veterans carries on the ancient tradition of klezmer musicians, playing music of all kinds, but with a recognizably Jewish sound.
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