Upcoming Concerts
Announcing Sacred and Profane’s exciting 34th season:
Winter, 2012
Germany by Train, The German Partsong
In the nineteenth Century, Germany and Austria were awash in song. Not only was the new piano fueling composers’ passion for writing Lieder, or art songs for voice and piano, but the rising middle class was creating a new tide of people with more leisure time and broader artistic and intellectual interests. Combined with a rediscovery of music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, these conditions created fertile ground for choral music. German composers such as Haydn, Schubert, and Bruckner composed a rich array of partsongs, pieces for the new mixed church choirs and large choral societies that were becoming popular throughout German-speaking countries. We will perform music by the best of these composers, featuring several shorter works plus Brahms’ breathtaking Warum ist das lich gegeben.
Saturday, March 3, 8 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
2300 Bancroft Way (at Ellsworth), BERKELEY
Sunday, March 4, 4 PM
St. Francis Lutheran Church
152 Church Street (between Duboce & Market), SAN FRANCISCO
Spring, 2012
Trans-Oceanic Flight: Music of the Pacific Rim
As Asian spirituality and culture have grown in popularity in the Western US and as the Asian communities in California have grown, many composers have begun to explore melding Western and Asian influences in their music. In this exciting concert we will join together with the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus under the direction of Chanticleer’s Matt Oltman, University of San Francisco’s Classical Choral Ensembles, and the William Winant Percussion Ensemble to feature several Pacific Rim works. Our program will include pieces by Taiwanese composer Yu-Hui Chang, Chinese composer Chen Yi, and Canadian composer Brian Tate. The concert will conclude with the 40-year anniversary performance of Lou Harrison’s setting of the Buddhist Heart Sutra, La Koro Sutro, accompanied by a gamelan-inspired percussion ensemble. Please note that the Berkeley Art Museum concert on May 25th will feature only La Koro Sutro from this program and other non-choral music by Lou Harrison. We’re excited to welcome back previous Sacred and Profane conductor Marika Kuzma to conduct this concert.
Saturday, May 6, 2 PM
University of San Francisco
Presentation Theater (Education Building)
2350 Turk Blvd. (at Masonic), SAN FRANCISCO
$5 with USF or UCB ID - if purchasing with school IDs, please purchase at the door
Friday, May 25, 8 PM
Berkeley Art Museum
2626 Bancroft Way (between College and Telegraph), BERKELEY
Please purchase tickets from the Berkeley Art Museum
510-642-0808