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    • About >
      • Directors
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  • Our Ensembles
    • Sonoma Bach Choir
    • Circa 1600
    • Green Mountain Consort
    • Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
  • Concerts & Tickets
    • 2018-2019 Season >
      • Opening Recital: Tokens of Peace
      • Thanksgiving: I Fear Namore the Night
      • Early Music Christmas: Let There Be Light
      • Organ Recital: The Candle in the WInd
      • Guest Recital: The Bright Field
      • Sacred Realms: Agnus Dei
      • Spring Returns: An Affirming Flame
      • Major Works: A Human Requiem
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    • Build Your Own Ticket Package
    • 2017-2018 Season >
      • Opening Recital: A Room with a View
      • Major Works Series: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
      • Early Music Christmas: Windows to the Soul
      • Midwinter Recital: A New Perfection in Music
      • Organ Recital: All Roads Lead to Rome
      • Sacred Realms: The Eternal City
      • Early Music Uncorked: Musica Transalpina
      • Season Finale: A Tale of Two Cities
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    • Ready, Set, Sing! 2019
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2013-2014 Season

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Lorenzo Lippi
Allegory of Music (c. 1648)
Bach's Italian Foremothers
October 27, 2013


Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Phoebe Jevtovic-Rosquist, soprano soloist
Henry Lebedinksy, guest director & organist

  • Sunday; October 27, 2013 @ 4pm
    First Church of Christ, Scientist
    522 B St., Petaluma, CA 94952
  • BachGrounder @ 3:30pm

One of the many aspects of the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach was his ability to amalgamate the prevailing national musical styles and create music that transcended its models. This program features vibrant and expressive Italian solo motets and sonatas by 17th-century women composers and traces the journey of Italian music to Germany through the works of Rosenmüller and Legrenzi, coming to full flower in Bach’s Italianate concertos.  Live Oak Baroque Orchestra is joined by acclaimed soprano Phoebe Jevtovic-Rosquist in works by Italian nuns Maria Xaveria Peruchona, Isabella Leonarda, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, as well as the prolific and much-heralded Barbara Strozzi. Historical keyboard wizard Henry Lebedinsky guest directs and will play Bach’s sparkling Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major.

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wood engraving from Camille Flammarion's
L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888)
Music of the Spheres
November 23, 2013

Sonoma Bach Choir
Santa Rosa Symphonic Chorus
Santa Rosa Symphony
Conducted by Robert Worth 
  • Saturday; November 23, 2013 @ 3pm
    Weill Hall, Green Music Center, Sonoma State University
    1801 E Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928
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The Sonoma Bach Choir, the Santa Rosa Symphonic Choir, and the Santa Rosa Symphony, conducted by Robert Worth, join forces to paint the beyond in musical terms. Arvo Pärt's Te Deum and selections from Bach's B Minor Mass, Handel's Messiah and other works combine to form a sonic evocation of the heavens. 

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Baron Lejeune "Bataille de Marengo" (1802)
Mass in Time of War
December 7, 8, 9, 2013

Sonoma Bach Choir 
Montgomery High School Chamber Singers
Santa Rosa Junior College Chamber Singers
Sonoma State University Chamber Singers

Santa Rosa Symphony
Conducted by Bruno Ferrandis 
  • Saturday; December 7, 2013 @ 2pm (open dress)
  • Saturday; December 7, 2013 @ 8pm
  • Sunday; December 8, 2013 @ 3pm
  • Monday; December 9, 2013 @ 8pm
    Weill Hall, Green Music Center, Sonoma State University
    1801 E Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928
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Conducted by Bruno Ferrandis, the Sonoma Bach Choir forms part of the Santa Rosa Symphony Honor Choir and teams up with the Santa Rosa Symphony to perform Haydn's most famous mass.  His Missa in Tempore Belli - or Paukenmesse - is a profound contemplation of peace and war. Soloists include Jenni Samuelson, Christine Brandes, Brian Thorsett, and Philip Skinner. 

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Perugino, "Adoration of the Magi" (1504, Italy)
Mystery and Jubilation
December 13 & 15, 2013

Circa 1600
Charles Rus, organist 

Directed by Robert Worth
  • Friday; December 13, 2013 @ 8pm
    St. Vincent's Catholic Church
    35 Liberty St., Petaluma, CA 94952
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  • Sunday; December 15, 2013 @ 4pm
    Saturday Afternoon Club
    430 10th St., Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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This holiday program ranges from Victoria's beloved motet O magnum mysterium to the joyful hymn In dulci jubilo, with many stops in between. Our chamber choir, Circa 1600, directed by Robert Worth, sings Christmas music by Baroque and Renaissance composers, and organist Charles Rus, performs dazzling variations on French carols.  

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "La Primavera" (1563)
Dreams of Spring
January 3, 2014

Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Elizabeth Blumenstock,  Director
  • Friday; January 3, 2014 @ 8 pm
    Christian Science Church
    522 B St., Petaluma, CA 94952
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The Live Oak Baroque Orchestra warms up a winter's evening with La Primavera ("Spring") from Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, along with Bach's enigmatic D minor Concerto for two violins.  This program also features spring-themed works by Christopher Simpson, James Oswald, and Dietrich Becker and explores the 17th-century roots of this seasonal tradition.  Elizabeth Blumenstock, director and violin. 

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Andrea Mantegna, "Parnassus" (1497)
Songs of Love and Nature
April 25 & 26, 2014

Circa 1600
Dominic Schaner, lute
Directed by Robert Worth 
  • Friday; April 25, 2014 @ 8pm
    Saturday Afternoon Club
    430 10th St., Santa Rosa, CA 95401
  • Saturday; April 26, 2014 @ 8 pm
    Penngrove Clubhouse
    385 Woodward Ave., Penngrove, CA 94951


In springtime, a Renaissance composer's fancy turns toward love, starting with birds and bees and ending with more human subjects. Circa 1600 and lutenist Dominic Schaner perform witty and virtuosic madrigals and songs by lovestruck composers from Italy, Germany, England, and France in an intimate, casual setting.  Light refreshment and wine will be served.   

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Die Esplanade in der Peters Vorstadt zu Leipzig um 1780
The Fifth Brandenburg and 
Three Great Cantatas
May 2 & 4, 2014

Sonoma Bach Choir
Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Robert Worth, Director
  • Friday; May 2, 2014 @ 8 pm
    Saturday Afternoon Club
    430 10th St., Santa Rosa, CA 95401
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  • Sunday; May 4, 2014 @ 4pm
    St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
    16290 Arnold Dr., Sonoma, CA 95476
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Bach's Brandenburg Concertos  are among the most famous pieces of music ever composed, but his cantatas are in many ways their equal. Live Oak Baroque Orchestra will perform the dazzling Fifth Brandenburg Concerto (BWV 1050), featuring solo violin, flute and harpsichord. The Sonoma Bach Choir and LOBO team with a glittering array of soloists to present three of the great choral cantatas that Bach wrote in Leipzig in 1724-25. Robert Worth, director. 
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