SF Chamber Orchestra Main Stage Concert “Strings Attached” | SF

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Free San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Concerts

Founded in 1953, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra has remained an active voice in the Bay Area music community, presenting free concerts with an ensemble of the region’s top professional musicians.

The rollout of an exciting new concert format, Maestro Ben Simon becomes your host for a 90-minute, no intermission podcast. Think of it as a cross between Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me and From the Top with games, prizes, Ben’s famous trivia quiz, and of course, great music.

Featuring a host of SFCO All-Stars, this engaging program will feature variations on familiar themes by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, and more. With special guest Anthony Lane, luthier.

Free admission. Members entry one hour before. General audience entry 15 minutes before. Recommended for middle school-age and up.

Mozart 12 Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman” K.265

• Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

Haydn String Quartet in C Major, op. 76 no.3 (“Emperor”)

• Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra string quartet
• Second movement, Poco adagio; cantabile

Schubert Die Forelle (“The Trout”)

• Ann Moss, soprano
• Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 (“Trout”)

• Fourth movement: Tema con variazione (Andantino)

Heidrich Happy Birthday Variations

Friday, October 27, 2017
Free San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Concerts

The heart of every orchestra is the string section: the largest and most prominently displayed. Exploring the vast array of expressive possibilities of these instruments, they open their season with J.S. Bach’s effervescent Violin Concerto in E Major, performed by concertmaster Robin Sharp.

This concerto displays the violinist’s technical command, along with her sense of emotion, poetry, fantasy and wit — truly a creation of purest Bachian splendor. Then follows Bela Bartok’s great Divertimento for Strings, music in which the folk melodies and rhythms of Bartok’s native Hungary are transformed through his genius into a dramatic and beautiful essay to showcase the virtuosity of the string section.

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