Barefoot Chamber Concerts ("an enterprise noted for both its quality and informality" - San Francisco Classical Voice) presents really good music in the right acoustic and without the formality of most classical music events.
Barefoot's 2019 seasonal celebration (January 4th is Eleventh Night, a rare and fabulous occasion when politicians traditionally eat moldy coal and apologize to voters for their failures, accompanied by complex and lovely music) features the viol consort music of the great Orlando Gibbons. Most famous in recent times as Glen Gould's favorite composer, Gibbons was revered in his own time as an organist and composer of peerless viol consorts. He was one of the first composers to write truly idiomatic consort music for viols (it could not be sung as well as played).
This concert will feature all six celebrated fantasies for six viols, as well as 5- and 4- and 3- part fantasies, In Nomines, and dances, including several of the rarely heard fantasies featuring the "great dooble bass viol."
The iconic Barefoot All-Stars (the Bay Area's viol consort of choice) are joined, for this program, by the great treble viol player Wendy Gillespie. A Gibbons expert (among other things), Gillespie has the distinction of having recorded the complete works of Gibbons twice (with different groups). In the lovely wooden acoustic of the Hillside Swedenborgian Church, this will be an acoustic treat to round off the holidays.
There will be the usual Barefoot snacks, and the concert (which starts at 6.30) will be without intermission and about 75 minutes long. For more information, visit barefootchamberconcerts.com/2018-2019-season/gibbons. Tickets online (recommended) or at the door if not sold out.
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Barefoot's 2019 seasonal celebration (January 4th is Eleventh Night, a rare and fabulous occasion when politicians traditionally eat moldy coal and apologize to voters for their failures, accompanied by complex and lovely music) features the viol consort music of the great Orlando Gibbons. Most famous in recent times as Glen Gould's favorite composer, Gibbons was revered in his own time as an organist and composer of peerless viol consorts. He was one of the first composers to write truly idiomatic consort music for viols (it could not be sung as well as played).
This concert will feature all six celebrated fantasies for six viols, as well as 5- and 4- and 3- part fantasies, In Nomines, and dances, including several of the rarely heard fantasies featuring the "great dooble bass viol."
The iconic Barefoot All-Stars (the Bay Area's viol consort of choice) are joined, for this program, by the great treble viol player Wendy Gillespie. A Gibbons expert (among other things), Gillespie has the distinction of having recorded the complete works of Gibbons twice (with different groups). In the lovely wooden acoustic of the Hillside Swedenborgian Church, this will be an acoustic treat to round off the holidays.
There will be the usual Barefoot snacks, and the concert (which starts at 6.30) will be without intermission and about 75 minutes long. For more information, visit barefootchamberconcerts.com/2018-2019-season/gibbons. Tickets online (recommended) or at the door if not sold out.
Barefoot Chamber Concerts ("an enterprise noted for both its quality and informality" - San Francisco Classical Voice) presents really good music in the right acoustic and without the formality of most classical music events.
Barefoot's 2019 seasonal celebration (January 4th is Eleventh Night, a rare and fabulous occasion when politicians traditionally eat moldy coal and apologize to voters for their failures, accompanied by complex and lovely music) features the viol consort music of the great Orlando Gibbons. Most famous in recent times as Glen Gould's favorite composer, Gibbons was revered in his own time as an organist and composer of peerless viol consorts. He was one of the first composers to write truly idiomatic consort music for viols (it could not be sung as well as played).
This concert will feature all six celebrated fantasies for six viols, as well as 5- and 4- and 3- part fantasies, In Nomines, and dances, including several of the rarely heard fantasies featuring the "great dooble bass viol."
The iconic Barefoot All-Stars (the Bay Area's viol consort of choice) are joined, for this program, by the great treble viol player Wendy Gillespie. A Gibbons expert (among other things), Gillespie has the distinction of having recorded the complete works of Gibbons twice (with different groups). In the lovely wooden acoustic of the Hillside Swedenborgian Church, this will be an acoustic treat to round off the holidays.
There will be the usual Barefoot snacks, and the concert (which starts at 6.30) will be without intermission and about 75 minutes long. For more information, visit barefootchamberconcerts.com/2018-2019-season/gibbons. Tickets online (recommended) or at the door if not sold out.
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Barefoot's 2019 seasonal celebration (January 4th is Eleventh Night, a rare and fabulous occasion when politicians traditionally eat moldy coal and apologize to voters for their failures, accompanied by complex and lovely music) features the viol consort music of the great Orlando Gibbons. Most famous in recent times as Glen Gould's favorite composer, Gibbons was revered in his own time as an organist and composer of peerless viol consorts. He was one of the first composers to write truly idiomatic consort music for viols (it could not be sung as well as played).
This concert will feature all six celebrated fantasies for six viols, as well as 5- and 4- and 3- part fantasies, In Nomines, and dances, including several of the rarely heard fantasies featuring the "great dooble bass viol."
The iconic Barefoot All-Stars (the Bay Area's viol consort of choice) are joined, for this program, by the great treble viol player Wendy Gillespie. A Gibbons expert (among other things), Gillespie has the distinction of having recorded the complete works of Gibbons twice (with different groups). In the lovely wooden acoustic of the Hillside Swedenborgian Church, this will be an acoustic treat to round off the holidays.
There will be the usual Barefoot snacks, and the concert (which starts at 6.30) will be without intermission and about 75 minutes long. For more information, visit barefootchamberconcerts.com/2018-2019-season/gibbons. Tickets online (recommended) or at the door if not sold out.
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