SF Chamber Orchestra Main Stage Concert “Classical Masters” | 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

Sunday, December 30, 2018
Free San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Concerts

Guest soprano Christine Brandes, who last wowed the SFCO audiences with her incandescent singing in the chamber-sized Mahler Symphony performs these extraordinary creations. After intermission, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, will perform a compositional tour de force deftly integrating not the usual single solo instrument with orchestra, but three- violin, cello and piano.

The Concerto is filled with virtuosity, inventiveness and memorable tunes.

Ring in the New Year with a program dedicated to our triumvirate of classical masters, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. From Haydn comes the dramatic overture to his 1799 opera L’Isola Disabiltata, followed by three Mozart concert arias. For more than two centuries, musicians and music-lovers have agreed that Mozart’s music is simply divine. “Amadeus,” after all, means “beloved by God.” Some of Mozart’s most sublime music may be found in his concert arias. These pieces, which are not from his operas, were intended to display a particular singer’s vocal talents to their best advantage.

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