Sunday, October 25 San Francisco Renaissance Voices – Viva Italia! oin us for music from Italy’s great castles, cathedrals, Arts at St. Bede’s and countryside, featuring Palestrina’s Missa Nasce Jla gioa mia for six voices, madrigals by Aleotti, Asola, 2015 – 2016 Season Casulana, Croce, Marenzio, Primavera, Striggio, and Vecchi, and commedia dell’arte dance solos featuring SFRV Dance Director Jennifer Meller. St. Bede’s Episcopal Church At door: $30 general/$25 senior/$25 student/$15 under-12 Thomas Pacha Photo: 2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park For more info & advance purchase, see www.sfrvoices.org Sunday, December 13 All performances are at 4:00pm Sunday, November 8 Kitka – Wintersongs Collage Vocal Ensemble – Heavenly Bodies intersongs showcases seasonal music from a wide his Los Altos-base chamber choir, under variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual Sunday, September 27 the direction of Amy Hunn, celebrates the Wtraditions. Kitka’s program features rousing Slavic folk St. Bede’s Choir – Fall Evensong Tbeauty and power of bodies both celestial and carols, meditative Eastern and Bosnian-Muslim sacred physical, and features works by Monteverdi, oaring chant, stirring hymnody, works, pagan incantations, Hebrew songs, and lively Mozart, Urmas Sisask, Jonathan Dove, and and dramatic poetry will highlight Romany tunes, all inspired by the customs, beauty, and the Beatles. www.collagevocalensemble.org this Service of Light, which welcomes mystery of wintertime. S $15 suggested donation benefitsInnVision Shelter Network the lengthening shadows of autumn At door: $40 center-front/$35 general/$30 senior/$15 student For more info & advance purchase, see www.kitka.org with a bounteous harvest of music by Sunday, November 22 Hildegard von Bingen, Sister Élise, and Libby Larsen. Michael Killen – Art and Music: Engaging Climate Change Sunday, January 24 Free will donation benefitsLos Ayudantes ichael Killen’s bold paintings amaze the senses to illuminate a serious subject, and draw inspiration Konevets Quartet – Sacred & Secular Song from Russia Sunday, October 11 Mfrom two iconic songwriters of our time: Stephen Sondheim his is a rare chance to and Bob Dylan. We’ll see a triptych of stunning 6’ x 15’ experience the harmonic Rani Fischer, organ Tbrilliance and unique sound of ymn tunes have inspired new canvasses, and the smaller work Knock, knock, knocking on Heaven’s Door. Hear the music, and listen to Michael Russian choral music sung by a organ music for centuries. male chamber choir. Founded HListen to variations of the 17th speak about his art and the “bigger picture” it addresses. $10-$25 suggested donation at the door www.killen.com in 1992 by graduates of the St. century tune Our Father, in Heaven, Petersburg Music Conservatoire- by Samuel Scheidt and Felix Glinka Choral Academy, the Mendelssohn, then jump 300 years Konevets Quartet shares the to jazzy versions of Amazing Grace – New Britain – by rich Russian vocal tradition George Shearing, Joe Utterback, and Gwen Walker. We’ll with audiences the world over. end the program with the greatest version of St. Anne ever, www.konevetsquartet.com composed by J.S. Bach. Tickets at the door: $25 general/$20 senior/$15 student Tickets at the door: $10 general/$5 senior/students free From triptych Send in the Clowns Sunday, January 31 Sunday, March 6 Sunday, May 1 Colby Roberts, tenor – An Afternoon at the Opera Dan Levitan, harp Collage Vocal Ensemble – enor Colby Roberts joins forces arp Man Dan” Levitan has been Heavenly Virtues, Deadly Sins with soprano Rachelle Perry-Ward, praised by the press for his id you know that there are seven heavenly virtues, one Tmezzo sopranos Katherine McKee and “H“impeccable virtuosity.” His “virtual for each of the deadly sins? CVE will explore them all Sally Mouzon, narrator Daniel Harper, perfection” as a musician is matched by his gifts for humor Dthrough a diverse program of music featuring solo, chamber, and baritone Frederick Matthews for a and grace as a performer. The recital will feature works and full ensemble works. www.collagevocalensemble.org by such composers as J.C. Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Fauré, performance of spectacular arias, duets, $15 suggested donation benefitsMusic in the Schools Fdn and trios from the operas of Wagner, Verdi, Paganini, and Puccini, as well as music written for the harp st bede Giordano, Bizet, and Massenet. Come experience the joys by other harpists. www.harpmandan.com Sunday, May 22 and trials of life as can only be portrayed in grand opera style. Tickets at the door: $25 general/$20 senior/$15 student St. Bede’s Choir – Tickets at the door: $25 general/$20 senior/$15 student Sunday, April 10 Saints and Celebrations Dawn Harms, violin – A Family Concert n honor of the Feast of St. Bede awn Harms takes her audiences on (falling on May 25) the St. Bede’s an exciting musical adventure that IChoir will present music written by, Dspans more than 300 years and gives the for, and about holy men and women youngest audience members a hands-on of the church through the centuries, part of the action. From the music of including The Venerable Bede, St. Brigid, St. Cecilia, and a Bach and Mozart to the Orange Blossom Special and the heavenly host of others. Featured will be works by Leonard Hot Canary, Dawn’s energetic, interactive show delights! Bernstein, Hildegard von Bingen, Herbert Howells, Daniel Tickets at the door: $25 general/$20 senior/$15 student; Pinkham, Richard Proulx, and G.F. Handel. children under 12 free when accompanied by an adult Free will donation benefitsSing with Haiti Sunday, February 21 Sunday, April 24 of Arts at St. Bede’s are San Francisco Renaissance Voices – Brocelïande Celtic & Early Music Ensemble underwriters of this concert Promenade Across the Continent rocelïande—Margaret Davis, Friendsseries. Contributions of any size are welcome, and oin San Francisco Renaissance Voices for an Kristoph Klover, and Kris all contributions of at least $100 entitle the donor to international sampler featuring works for multiple BYenney—entrances audiences with free admission for two at all series events. Amounts Jchoirs. We will journey north to Scotland for excerpts from evocative music from ancient contributed in excess of $100 are tax-deductible. Robert Carver’s Missa dum Sacrum Mysterium. On the Celtic traditions and Early Music, Continent we will visit the Lowlands for Josquin’s 24-voice weaving harmonious vocal and Angel $100 or more motet Qui Habitat, and music by exiled Englishman Peter instrumental tapestries with a Archangel $150 or more Philips, then move on to works by Handl, Hassler, and magical mix of Celtic harp, cello, Cherubim $250 or more Praetorius. The southern leg will include the brilliance octave mandolin, hardanger cello Seraphim $350 or more of Spanish composers Victoria, Raval, and Guerrero and d’amore, nyckelharpa, recorders, and more. All ages are favorites by international genius Orlando di Lasso. welcome at this unforgettable afternoon of Old World St. Bede’s Episcopal Church At door: $30 general/$25 senior/$25 student/$15 under-12 music grown fresh locally. www.broceliande.org 2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 For more info & advance purchase, see www.sfrvoices.org Tickets at the door: $15 general/$10 senior/$5 student 650-854-6555 www.stbedesmenlopark.org