tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72922315570571213062024-03-13T10:01:00.228-07:00A415Formerly the official blog of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra – Please visit our website for our new blogPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-18379054994782298072010-08-27T12:10:00.000-07:002010-08-27T12:10:41.612-07:00New blog posts on our new blog...Check them out:
We've been Fall Arts Previewed!
September Program Notes
Videos: Levin on Mozart
What I did on my summer vacation, pt. 1
Thank you for following this blog. Please keep up with us on facebook and our new website.Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-91171413987915018682010-08-06T16:51:00.000-07:002010-08-06T16:51:23.753-07:00New website coming next week!It is only fitting for our 100th blog entry that we announce a new, redesigned website. Starting Monday, our homepage will look a bit more like this:
Loyal blog readers: Please be aware that our blog will also be shifting to this new site. Updates to this blog will cease at the end of August.Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-27644037428755811672010-08-06T16:43:00.000-07:002010-08-06T16:43:26.297-07:00What I did on my summer vacation: Pt. 1'What have your musicians and singers have been up to all summer?' you ask? Well, let's find out!
In June, Music Librarian and violist David Daniel Bowes (left) went on vacation with his partner Brian to the Pacific Northwest, where Brian was sick with flu the entire time! When David started to get sick too, “we paid the piper and came home early.” However, after all that, “bliss!” They planted Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-60253165678970932182010-08-02T17:31:00.000-07:002010-08-02T17:38:24.648-07:00Meet CourtneyThis past July, we were lucky to be joined by Courtney Stredder, who interned for us through Career Explorations. Soon to be a senior at Nampa High School in Idaho, Courtney helped us prepare for the upcoming 30th Anniversary Season. While with us, she wrote press releases, dove into the archives to research our history, helped with the season ticket mailing, and attended the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-87020906709045974762010-07-27T13:59:00.000-07:002010-07-29T10:45:25.128-07:00Many thanks!We would like to thank all the volunteers who offered their time last week to help with the ticket mailings. Because of them, we were able to send out all the subscription orders by the end of the week! Many thanks to the following volunteers, we couldn't have done it without them:
Al and Natalie Davis
Luce Denney
Jubillee Gee
Ellen Thiel
Marcia Wire
Pat WolfPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-37519903761083561652010-07-21T18:22:00.000-07:002010-08-02T11:28:44.849-07:00A needed change of perspectiveMost of our staff will be attending the Association of California Symphony Orchestras 42nd Annual Conference this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Much like the League of American Orchestras earlier this summer, ACSO is sounding notes of a minor key: "Orchestras and choruses are struggling. Slashed funding, declining attendance, and increased costs are just a few of the problems we have to wrestle Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-84418831591067396202010-07-21T16:59:00.000-07:002010-07-21T17:00:18.072-07:00In 66 days...... we'll get to see our Nic conduct Mozart here in the Bay Area. For now, we'll just have to read about him conducting Mozart elsewhere.
For you impatient fans out there, subscribers will begin to receive their tickets this week(!) and single tickets go on sale in 15 days on August 5.Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-30385539328832536792010-07-20T17:06:00.000-07:002010-07-20T17:06:57.451-07:00Japanese Handel?Is of course courtesy of our Music Director! Who else did you expect!
Read more.Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-22501419219806393362010-07-15T13:32:00.000-07:002010-07-15T13:32:38.203-07:00FREE-harmonia Baroque Orchestra...
Don't miss a FREE performance by a small ensemble of musicians from the orchestra. On Sunday, September 26, at 5 p.m. the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Ensemble performs at Hertz Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus. Part of the Cal Performances Open House "Free For All," the ensemble performs Haydn's Quartet for Oboe and Strings in C major and String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-51876326505695763802010-07-15T13:00:00.000-07:002010-07-15T13:00:51.793-07:00Gonzalo in the Wall Street JournalOne of the volunteers who is helping us with our season ticket mailing mentioned this morning that Gonzalo Ruiz is featured in today's Wall Street Journal. He talks about transcribing Bach's "Orchestral Suite No. 2," with it's famous flute solos, for oboe. We played this back in October 2008 to rave reviews.
Hear for yourself:
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-41826153651874517742010-07-12T17:36:00.000-07:002010-07-12T17:36:58.025-07:00Speaking of jokes...Alex Ross posted (and Scott thankfully forwarded) this hilarious spoof radio commercial from 1977 that ever so gently jibes the more contemporary compositions that you will probably never hear our orchestra perform, not even on period instruments.Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-11635711099483943132010-07-12T17:30:00.000-07:002010-07-12T17:30:40.105-07:00Fun — and fart jokes — in classical music
That was the sub-headline of the great feature in The Aspen Times this weekend on our Music Director.
That's right, so soon back from Oregon and Nic's off in Aspen (and we wish we could go see him conduct, but we'll have to wait until September when our 30th Season kicks off).
Here's a bit of our favorite part from the article:
"McGegan believes that injecting that sort of jollity into Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-49421499717001404302010-07-07T16:59:00.000-07:002010-07-07T16:59:58.951-07:00You Like Us, You Really, Really Like Us!Become of fan of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra on Facebook!
Thank you for your support!Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-86610824086734936912010-07-07T15:10:00.000-07:002010-07-08T12:53:27.420-07:00Kick off the year with IntradaWe are pleased to announce “Intrada,” the our 30th Anniversary Opening Night Celebration, which takes place on Friday, September 24, 2010, in the Green Room at the War Memorial Veterans Building (401 Van Ness Avenue), across from City Hall. The Opening Night Celebration begins at 6:00 p.m. with a delicious strolling supper and concludes with the first concert of our 2010/11 Season, an evening of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-84232482698142557172010-07-02T16:57:00.000-07:002010-07-02T17:03:03.353-07:00Nic in Oregon this weekend!Nic flew up to Eugene, Oregon, this morning just in time for rehearsal for tomorrows’s 40th Anniversary Gala Concert at the Oregon Bach Festival. He probably thought he'd be having a nice, quiet long weekend in Berkeley, however pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane just had to cancel his appearances at the festival because of illness.Learn more about this concert.Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-20483671965580852372010-06-28T16:29:00.000-07:002010-06-28T16:39:18.772-07:00John Prescott leads SFEMS summer adult courseOn August 2-6, our pre-concert lecturer John Prescott (right) will once again lead a series of morning classes for adults in Berkeley at the Crowden Center for Music in the Community. The theme this year will be the music of one of the most prolific and influential of Baroque composers (he's also one of our favorites): G. F. Handel. Presented by the San Francisco Early Music Society, this Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-33670924464239443692010-06-28T16:12:00.000-07:002010-06-28T16:41:07.880-07:00Historically-informed summer camp!Our friends at the San Francisco Early Music Society just let us know that there is still space in their summer youth day camp program. At this year's "Music Discovery Workshop," youths ages 7-15 can "swashbuckle their way through life and music in 17th century France and England," learning recorder, harpsichord, strings, chamber music and musicianship, while also participating in other Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-61037654875118487402010-06-25T10:15:00.000-07:002010-06-28T16:43:30.118-07:00Soccer: Baroque? Classical? Romantic?Do you have soccer (ahem... football) fever like many of us in the office? Maybe you can answer this bit of trivia: Which piece of orchestral or operatic music was published the year that the first official rules of soccer were agreed upon and first "Football Association" was founded in a tavern in London?A: John Blow's Venus and Adonis (1683)B: Joseph Haydn's Symphonies No. 12 and 13 (1763)C: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-64707222718554746562010-06-22T15:59:00.000-07:002010-06-22T17:38:16.443-07:00Meet Scott!Scott broke the news last week and now it's our turn: We have engaged Scott Foglesong to write all of our program notes for our 30th Anniversary Season, as well as give three of the eight sets of pre-concert lectures. Chair of the Department of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory and one of the San Francisco Symphony's program annotators and pre-concert lecturers, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-83831317031714865862010-06-22T15:29:00.000-07:002010-06-22T15:58:13.043-07:00More Nic NewsLast week, Juilliard's Historical Performance program announced that Nic will conduct Juilliard415 on Saturday, November 20 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. The program includes a rare Handel cantata, Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno, and Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Flutes in C Major. Having only just debuted in December of last year, Juilliard415, the music school's new period-instrument group, will perform a Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-81666902462069285842010-06-15T10:54:00.000-07:002010-06-15T11:39:09.223-07:00Congratulations Nic!What does Graham William Nash, co-founder of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and our Music Director Nicholas McGegan have in common? Both were named Officers of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list published this weekend. Congratulations Nic!Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-12090322865977038802010-06-15T10:33:00.000-07:002010-06-15T10:54:14.321-07:00Thank you to our BFX volunteers!Thank you to our board members Kit Leland, Adam Arthur Bier, and Marie Bertillion Collins, who helped out this weekend at our table at the Berkeley Early Music Festival and Exhibition. Our Marketing Director was particularly thankful he could escape for two hours on Saturday to watch the USA/England game. We enjoyed meeting our neighbor baroque string instrument maker Gabriela Guadalajara and, ofPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-31086900561383248042010-06-09T13:50:00.000-07:002010-06-09T14:22:13.339-07:00Congratulations Hanneke!We are pleased to announce a recent appointment to the membership of Philharmonia Baroque. Effective next season, Hanneke van Proosdij has been named First-Call Member of the Laurette Goldberg Keyboard Chair, endowed by Anne and David Oliver. Our long time fans will surely recognize Hanneke, who has often played harpsichord, organ, and recorder in the orchestra for the last 13 years.Hanneke Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-45322965890040491052010-06-08T15:17:00.000-07:002010-06-08T16:04:30.582-07:00Our new favorite blogger...Judge Marie! Our board member The Hon. Marie Bertillion Collins has your "Survival Guide" for all you BFX10 bound Early Music lovers. Read Tip 1 and Tip 7... We hope the BFX blog fills us in as to what 2 through 6 are (how else will we survive)!Our Marketing Director, who lived in Berkeley until just two months ago, can tell you how he'll survive the long days at the Philharmonia Baroque Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292231557057121306.post-25734549885244608142010-06-07T11:09:00.000-07:002010-06-07T11:27:08.446-07:00An inspiring model?Annalisa Pappano, a viol player in town for BFX10 from Cincinnati, wrote on her group's blog today:What I find especially intriguing [in San Francisco] is the culture for early music here. This city boasts the [San Francisco Early Music Society] series, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, an astonishing number of professional viol players (last count was 16!), a full-time professional baroque Philharmonia Baroque Orchestrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565228927019091596noreply@blogger.com0