Coming Up: Cal Bach's Christmas Program

From the press release for a great-looking program:

November 30 – December 2, 2018

BUON NATALE

500 years of Italian Christmas music

Friday, November 30, 8pm, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church

1111 O’Farrell at Franklin, San Francisco 94109

Saturday, December 1, 8pm, at All Saints’ Episcopal Church

555 Waverley at Hamilton, Palo Alto 94301

Sunday, December 2, 4pm, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church

2300 Bancroft at Ellsworth, Berkeley 94704

Doors open 30 minutes prior to each performance.

Tickets: $35 (discounts for advance purchase, seniors, students, and under 30)

650-485-1097  |  http://www.calbach.org  |  info@calbach.org

Artistic Director Paul Flight leads the award-winning California Bach Society in Italian music for Advent and Christmas: traditional holiday carols and glorious double choir motets by Giovanni Croce and Alessandro Scarlatti, plus Verdi’s chromatic Laudi alla Vergine Maria and Respighi’s beautiful pastoral Lauda per la Nativitá del Signore.  The 25-voice chorus is joined by soloists soprano Caroline Jou Armitage, mezzo Mindy Ella Chu, and tenor Mark Bonney.  We wish you Buon Natale!

Program:

Hodie Christus natus est                                                   Giovanni Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594)

Lux fulgebit hodie                                                                  Claudio Merulo (1533-1604)

Quaeramus cum pastoribus                                           Giovanni Croce (c. 1558-1609)

Magnificat primo tono                                                        Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

Laudi alla Vergine Maria                                                   Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Lauda per la Nativitá del Signore                                Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)