The Music of Peace, Joy & Love - 2010-11 Season (Note: Tickets are available on-line here approximately 8 weeks before each concert)
Our 2010-11 Season, The Music of Peace, Joy & Love is dedicated to their pursuit and the many forms they can take. Our Opera Early & Ancient mini-series presents another rarely-performed English masque, our fun-filled gala An Evening at Elizabeth's Court returns and we celebrate Twelfth Night with The Boar's Head featuring the music of Renaissance England. Season Tickets - now available! Purchase a season ticket to San Francisco Renaissance Voices' 2010-11 Season, The Music of Peace, Joy and Love and save $10! This ticket includes admission to our four regular concerts for the year (The Music of Peace, The Boar's Head Festival, The Music of Joy and The Music of Love) and does NOT include GALA admission which must be purchased separately. You can purchase this ticket up to four hours before our first concert on October 30 and you can use this ticket as a "flexible ticket" that can be used in several ways: you can use it as a single admission to each concert during the season, or you can use it to admit two to two concerts, or admit four to one concert during the year, etc. Questions? Contact us at sfrvoices@yahoo.com CLICK HERE to buy a General Season Ticket CLICK HERE to buy a Student/Senior Season Ticket
Season Opening Gala Benefit & Performance An Evening at Elizabeth's Court October 2, 2010 - 7:00 pm Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco Our fun-filled evening of music, merriment, mead and morsels returns when her royal majesty Gloriana, Maestro ToddJolly, and the staff and singers of San Francisco Renaissance Voices invite you to An Evening at Elizabeth's Court. The evening starts with a reception flowing with mead and wines and a Silent Auction featuring some of the finest items in The Realm including tickets to performances and dining, fine vintages and valuable gift items. Your evening at Court ends with Renaissance feasting and this year her majesty has asked The Ladies of the Court to entertain our guests with songs divine, hilarious ... and bawdy! Her highness requests appropriate dress for the occasion and those in period costume will be especially welcome!
Hear Ye! - Her majesty has decreed to our Board that this year those purchasing single tickets on-line will pay just $30 (a $10 discount from the door price - select option "Admit ONE General" when visiting Brown Paper Tickets), and those pre-purchasing two tickets on-line will pay just $50 (a generous $30 discount from the door price by her majesty - select option "Admit TWO General" when visiting Brown Paper Tickets) - HUZZAH! The Music of Peace - Pax Aeternum Sixth Annual Halloween Weekend Concert Requiem (Juan de Esquivel Barahona c1563-c1613) October 30, 2010 – 7:30 pm Seventh Avenue Performances 1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco October 31, 2010 - 4:00 pm All Saints' Episcopal 555 Waverley, Palo Alto November 7, 2010 - 4:00 pm Alameda First Presbyterian 2001 Santa Clara, Alameda Our Seventh Annual Halloween Weekend Office of the Dead concert features the exquisite Requiem and In Paradisum of Juan de Esquivel Barahona (c1563-c1613) and other hauntingly beautiful music of sadness and sorrow from the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance including works by Duarte Lobo (c1555-1617), Pedro de Escobar (c1465-1535) and Diego Ortiz (c1510-1570) among others.
Special Performance: The Boar's Head Festival January 15, 2011 - 7:30 pm Seventh Avenue Performances 1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco January 16, 2011 - 4:00 pm All Saints' Episcopal 555 Waverley, Palo Alto We end the holiday season with a celebration of Twelfth Night - The Boar's Head - with the music of Renaissance England. The festival we know today originated at Queen's College, Oxford, England in 1340. Legend has it that a scholar was studying a book of Aristotle while walking through the forest on his way to Midnight Mass. Suddenly, he was confronted by an angry boar. Having no other weapon, the resourceful Oxonian rammed his metal-bound philosophy book down the throat of the charging animal, whereupon the brute choked to death. That night the boar's head, finely dressed and garnished, was borne in procession to the dining room, accompanied by carolers singing "in honor of the King of bliss." After each concert our audiences will enjoy a feast featuring wassail, king's cake and roast pork pie (as well as a vegetarian alternative).
The Music of Joy Celebrating Early Music America's 25th Anniversary! Missa Gaudeamus (Tomas Luis de Victoria c1563-c1613) I Was Glad (Henry Purcell c1563-c1613) March 19, 2011 – 7:30 pm Seventh Avenue Performances 1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco March 20, 2011 - 4:00 pm All Saints' Episcopal 555 Waverley, Palo Alto March 27, 2011 - 4:00 pm Alameda First Presbyterian 2001 Santa Clara, Alameda We join with Early Music America, the national service organization for Early Music in North America, to celebrate their 25 years of service to the Early Music Community! This concert features Tomas Luis de Victoria's (c1548-1611) joyful Missa Gaudeamus and other songs of joy from the Renaissance and Baroque including William Byrd's (1540-1623) Acendit Deum in Jubilatione, Orlando Gibbon's (1583-1625) Hosanna to the Son of David, Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) and Josquin de Prez's (c1450-1521) Jubilate Deo and Purcell's (1659-1695) exuberant coronation anthem for James II, I Was Glad.
The Music of Love featuring Opera Early & Ancient Missa Ancor che col partire (Jacquet de Mantua, 1483-1559) Cupid & Death (Matthew Locke 1621-1677) August 13, 2011 - 7:30 pm Seventh Avenue Performances 1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco August 14, 2011 - 4:00 pm TBD Palo Alto August 20, 2011 - 8:00 pm TBD Berkeley August 21, 2011 - 4:00 pm Old First Concerts 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco This concert begins with Jacquet de Mantua's Missa Ancor che col partire based on Cipriano de Rore's love madrigal Although when I part from you. Our Opera Early & Ancient mini-series returns for the second part of the program and features Cupid & Death by Matthew Locke based on the libretto by Christopher Gibbons. Locke's engaging masque finds Cupid and Death accidentally exchanging arrows ... pandemonium ensues as Cupid shoots potential lovers and inadvertently kills them, and Death shoots at elderly people whose time of passing has come, and strikes them ardent. The god Mercury finally intervenes and banishes the mischievous Cupid.
