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2015-2016 Season

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Maurice Prendergast
Assisi (1899)
Monteverdi and His Milieu
Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 7PM, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center

Lindsey McLennan, soprano
Chris Fritzsche, countertenor
Sonoma Bach Consort

Live Oak Baroque Orchestra


A duo of acclaimed soloists and two small ensembles perform virtuosic vocal and instrumental music from early seventeenth century northern Italy, including selections from Giovanni Paolo Cima's Concerti Ecclesiastici, Monteverdi's Selva Morale and Madrigali Guerrieri ed Amorosi, and stunning instrumental works by Tarquinio Merula and Salamone Rossi.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Gathering of the Manna (1742)
Mozart Requiem: The Story of a Masterwork
Friday, November 20 at 8PM, St Andrew Presbyterian Church, Sonoma
Sunday, November 22 at 7PM, St  Vincent de Paul Church, Petaluma

Dianna Richardson, soprano
Karen Clark, alto
Kyle Stegall, tenor
​Ben Kazez, bass


Sonoma Bach Choir
Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Robert Worth, director 
Elizabeth Blumenstock, concertmaster


When Mozart died at the age 35, he left his Requiem Mass very much unfinished. The story of how the 'torso" of this work became one of the most beloved classical masterpieces is one of the great tales of music history.  Our Bachgrounder will explore the compositional  history of the Requiem; the concert will present, first, the work exactly as Mozart Left it, and then as it is known to the world, as completed by Mozart's student Franz Xavier Süssmayr.

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Gentile da Fabriano
Adonizione dei Magi (1423)
Early Music Christmas: In Sweetest Joy
Friday, December 11, 2015 at 8PM, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center
Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 8PM, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center

Charles Rus, organ
Steve Escher, cornetto
Circa 1600
Robert Worth, director


Our fifth annual Early Music Christmas is built around the classic hymn of joy, In dulci jubilo.  This hymn illuminates the themes of the season, around which we have gathered an array of pieces by Italian, German, and English composers -- Gabrieli, Schütz, Praetorius, Byrd, and Bach -- paired with solo works on Schroeder Hall's magnificent Brombaugh organ for this festive concert tradition!

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Samuel Palmer
A Dream in the Apennine (1864)
Giants of the High Baroque: Bach and Vivaldi
 Friday, January 8, 2016 at 8PM, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center

Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Elizabeth Blumenstock, director

Live Oak Baroque Orchestra completes its four-year Vivaldi project with the Autumn concerto from Four Seasons. Also featured is Elizabeth Blumenstock as the soloist in her reconstruction of a lost Bach violin concerto, which survives in Bach's hand only as an arrangement for harpsichord

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Guest Concert: Dancing in the Isles
Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 3PM, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center

Musica Pacifica

Rousing Baroque Fold and Dance Music from Scotland, Ireland, and England: Musica Pacifica's arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish folk tunes, dance suites from the English theater, Jacobean masque music, trio sonatas by Scots Oswald and McGibbon, as wells as works with a Scottish flavor by Matteis and Veracini, and Purcell's famous Three Parts Upon a Ground. 

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Jan van Eyck
Ghent Altarpiece detail (1432)
Sacred Realms: Song of Songs
Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 8PM, St Seraphim of Sarov, Santa Rosa
Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 3PM, St Seraphim of Sarov, Santa Rosa

Sonoma Bach Consort
Green Mountain Singers


Following last season's smash Angels Everywhere, our one-on-a-part Sonoma Bach Consort will once again join forces with the Green Mountain Singers, singing exquisite late Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque settings from the Song of Songs.  This pair of concerts will take place in the visually and acoustically stunning church of St Seraphim, with readings from Ariel and Chana Bloch's strikingly beautiful translation of the song.

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Ernst Haeckel
Kunstformen der Natur, Hummingbirds (1904)
Early Music Uncorked: On the Wing
Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 8PM, Penngrove Clubhouse, Penngrove
Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 3PM, Saturday Afternoon Club, Santa Rosa


Circa 1600
Robert Worth, director


Join us for a fun program exploring a fascinating range of poetry and music depicting birds, angels, and other flying objects. To “break the surly bonds 
of earth” has always been a human obsession, and early-music composers loved to set flight to music. Featuring secular and sacred works by Marenzio, Monteverdi, Gibbons, Byrd, and many others.




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Emile Claus
Zonnegloed (1905)
Voices and Pipes: Hearts Aflame
Friday, May 20, 2016 at 8PM, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center
Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 7PM, Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center


Sonoma Bach Choir
David Parsons, Organ
Robert Worth, director


For our final concert of the season, we present music inspired by Martin Luther’s great Pentecost hymn Komm heiliger Geist. From the earliest version published in 1524, to pieces by JS Bach, hymn settings are interspersed with cantatas, motets, and organ works on the power of Spirit to ignite us to word and deed.
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