All Saints’ Choir and Orchestra perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Solemn Vespers, K. 339 and Coronation Mass, K. 317. The Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn Vespers for a Confessor) was written in 1780, and intended originally for liturgical use at Salzburg Cathedral — it was also his final work for the cathedral, and written just before his opera Idomeneo. In modern times the Vespers is heard most often in concert format. Comprised of six movements with alternating sections for chorus and soloists, it is especially well known for its beautiful Laudate Dominum for solo soprano. The Mass in C Major was completed in 1779 in Salzburg, and was first performed in liturgical context. The mass appears to have acquired the nickname Krönungsmesse (Coronation Mass) at the Imperial Court in Vienna in the early 19th century, after becoming the preferred music for royal and imperial coronations as well as services of thanksgiving.
Tickets: $25 adults / $15 students & seniors. Admission free with Music Guild donor season pass.
Choir of Saint James offers the uniquely Anglican service of Evensong in the style of the great English cathedrals on the second Sunday of the month. Freewill offering. Ticket required to attend.
Jeremy Filsell is the newly-appointed organist and director of music at St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, where in April 2019 he assumed leadership of the world-renowned music program and its deeply-admired Choir of Men and Boys, following in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors Gerre Hancock, John Scott, and Daniel Hyde. Read more about this artist here.
Join us for a combined Music for Ukraine Benefit Concert followed by a special Compline service focused on prayers for peace in the world. The concert will feature professional musicians from Ventura County.
Compline, a short evening prayer service, will be presented by St. Paul's Choir, which will sing a cappella music in ancient and contemporary musical idioms and styles.
Donations are encouraged. 100% of funds collected will support UNICEF’s humanitarian response efforts directed toward children and families in Ukraine and neighboring countries offering a safe haven to those displaced.
Roger Wilkie, violin; John Walz, cello and Edith Orloff, piano, perform Beethoven's Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, "Ghost" and Smetana's Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 15. Ticket required to attend.
Featuring the Tesserae Baroque Ensemble. The phrase “The Myth of Venice” is used by historians to describe a kind of “Venetian Exceptionalism”; in this formulation, art, architecture, and (of course) music was used to glorify the Republic. In a concert featuring cornetts, sackbuts, strings, and singers, Tesserae brings to life the grandiose polychoral music from the late Renaissance and the early Baroque – the Golden Age of Venetian music – as well as other non-Venetian works inspired by this rich musical tradition. This program includes Venetian music by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Monteverdi, as well as works in the polychoral style by Diego Ortiz and Hieronymous Praetorius.
Tickets: $30, $ 25 seniors and SCEMS, $10 students. Admission free with Music Guild donor season pass.
