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Season tickets allow for flexible attendance with big savings! Purchase once and enjoy any of our Berkeley or San Francisco concerts in December, February, and May. Simply purchase a season pass and we'll hold your tickets for you at will-call.
AUTUMN 2025:
Gather at the River: Songs of Water & Ice
Free Open Rehearsal
Saturday, November 15 • 3:00pm
First Unitarian Church • Oakland
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San Francisco
Friday, December 5 • 7:30pm
Noe Valley Ministry • San Francisco
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Berkeley
Saturday, December 6 • 4:00pm
St Mark’s Episcopal • Berkeley
Healdsburg
Sunday, December 7 • 4:00pm
Church of the Incarnation • Santa Rosa
“Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
– Langston Hughes
With winter comes water in all its forms. In our December program, Sacred and Profane dances in songs about rain; frolics in songs about snow; and swims in songs about lakes, rivers, and oceans. Our concert includes canonic gems by Brahms, Stanford, Poulenc, and Britten, as well as music by the early 20th-century Black English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. We will bring you works by contemporary composers Judith Bingham of England and Staffan Storm of Sweden. We complete our concert with an African American spiritual arrangement by Stacey Gibbs and folk and pop songs by the Real Group and Evert Taube.
WINTER 2026:
Fire in My Heart: Songs of Love
Berkeley
Saturday, February 14 • 7:00pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal • Berkeley
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San Francisco
Sunday, February 15 • 4:00pm
Noe Valley Ministry • San Francisco
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“The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.”
– Rumi
Let your passions burn with Sacred and Profane in February! We will sing fiery songs of love from the Renaissance to today, including Thomas Morley’s Fire, Fire and Morten Lauridsen’s Madrigali: Six 'Fire Songs' on Italian Renaissance Poems. We will present new works by contemporary composers Dominick DiOrio and Reena Esmail. We are excited to sing Bay area composer and conductor Darita Seth’s I See Fire and premiere a new work by Sacred and Profane’s Assistant Conductor Edna Yeh.
SPRING 2026:
Terra ad Caelum: Songs of Land & Sky
Berkeley
Friday, May 8 • 7:30pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal • Berkeley
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San Francisco
Saturday, May 9 • 3:00pm
Noe Valley Ministry • San Francisco
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Gualala
Saturday, May 16 • 5:00pm
Gualala Arts Center • Gualala
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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
– Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Plant your feet on the ground and let your spirits soar to the sky with Sacred and Profane in May, as we sing songs of earth, wind, and air. We will celebrate Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday with I Am the Vine, revel in Shawn Crouch’s evocative Marshland Elegy, and be comforted by Frank Ticheli’s compelling Earth Song. We will explore the globe with an Irish folk song and a Saami joik. We return to the Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds with a work for choir, marimba, and wine glasses and to the Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist with her Songs from the North, a setting of texts by indigenous Arctic Circle poets composed for the ensemble.