Event Listing - Theater

Fri May 16 - Sun May 18

American Bach Soloists present

Sound the Trumpet

Tel. 415.621.7900
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Location	Date and Time
San Francisco Locations
St. Mark's Lutheran Church 1111 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94109 map cross street: Franklin district: Polk Gulch/Van Ness	Sun May 18 (7pm)
Belvedere Locations
St Stephens Episcopal Church Belvedere 3 Bayview Ave Belvedere, CA 94920 district: Belvedere	Fri May 16 (8pm)
Berkeley Locations
First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way Berkeley, CA 94704 map cross street: Dana St district: Berkeley	Sat May 17 (8pm)

Description

Baroque trumpeter John Thiessen, whose playing has been called “flawless” and “effervescent,” joins ABS to celebrate the anniversaries of two contemporaries of Bach—Johann Friedrich Fasch and Guiseppe Torelli—with a program of virtuoso trumpet concertos. As an added bonus, ABS will perform Georg Philipp Telemann’s Water Music, a boisterous dance suite that pays homage to seafaring life in early 18th-century Hamburg. Each movement has a mythical aquatic personality: Neptune, Triton, Thetis, Aeolus, and Zephyr are brought to life in music. Bach’s rousing Sixth Brandenburg—a virtual quadruple concerto for violas and violas da gamba—will bring the season to a brilliant close.

Bach:Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Fasch:Trumpet Concerto in D Major
Handel:Suite in D Major "Mr. Handel's Celebrated Water Piece"
Telemann:Concerto in A Major "The Frogs"
Suite in C Major "Water Music"
Torelli:Trumpet Concerto in D Major