April 2025​

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Sunday April 20, 2025 - 8am and 10:30am (Easter Sunday Church Services) (Santa Monica, and live-streaming on YouTube)

St. Augustine and St. Matthews choir and Baroque orchestra with period instruments: Excerpts from Messiah by Handel and Gloria by Vivaldi

      Join the full house for the Sunday Easter service, featuring glorious sound sof Handel and Vivaldi with a Baroque orchestra and singers. Arrive early for parking.

St. Augustine by-the-Sea 1227 Fourth Street, Santa Monica

parking in city lot across the street

more info: https://www.saint-augustine.org/sundays/

Contact: Mike Raleigh <mike@saint-augustine.org>

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SATURDAY APRIL 26, 2025 12:00 PM

Music Angelica with Alison Leudeke (harpsichord) featuring Andrew Waid and Andrew Justice on violas: COMMUNITY CONCERT

            A captivating performance with Andrew Waid and Andrew Justice on violas, joined by Alison Luedecke on harpsichord, performing Baroque masterpieces:

Bach's Suite no. 1 (Allemande Sarabande, Gigue),

Telemann's Canonic Sonata no. 4 (Vivace, Piacevole, Presto)

Benda's Sonata in C' minor (Adagio, Allegro, Moderato)

Free, Q&A AFTER THE PERFORMANCE

venue: Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library Long Beach Public Library

5870 Atlantic ave, Long Beach, 90805

more info: www.musicaangelica.org

 

Sunday April 27  1:00 pm–4:30 pm (Symposium); 6:30 pm–8:00 pm (Concert) 

(west LA, UCLA campus)

UCLA Musicology Early Music Ensemble and scholars and practitioners of Jewish Early Music: Early Sounds of Jewish Music

            Early Sounds of Jewish Music is a rare journey into the Jewish soundscape of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Featuring international scholars, our program will be in two parts: An interactive symposium with leading scholars and practitioners of Jewish Early Music, and a collaborative concert with the UCLA Musicology Early Music Ensemble.

Program (in brief)

1:00-1:45pm - Introduction to Jewish Early Music: Diana Matut (voice), Andreas Schmitges (guitar)

1:45pm-2:30pm Panel Conversation: The Work of Jewish Early Music in Europe & North America

3:00pm-4:30pm New Horizons in Jewish Early Music Scholarship

6:30pm concert with the UCLA Early Music Ensemble

Program (in detail)

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE: 1:00pm-4:30pm

1:00-1:45pm – “For the Joy of the Soul: Rediscovering Early Jewish Music” (Dr. Diana Matut)

            For the longest time, the story of Early Jewish Music began and ended with Salamone Rossi, great Jewish composer from Mantua, and colleague of Claudio Monteverdi. His Hebrew madrigals were considered the pinnacle and rarest of exceptions in the world of Jewish music before 1800. Yet Jewish music-making between 1500 and 1800 encompassed music for all walks of life, functions and occasions. It was performed in sacred and secular spaces, in the synagogue, at home, on the streets and even in non-Jewish settings. This lecture will introduce the music of Ashkenazi and Italian Jewish communities of that period, its rediscovery and sources, and will feature communal singing of Hebrew and Yiddish songs from the 1600s.

1:45pm-2:30pm – Roundtable: Jewish Early Music in Performance, Moderator: Mark Kligman

            Panelists: Diana Matut, Paul Feller, Matt Austerklein, Marylin Winkle

2:30pm-3:00pm – Coffee / Schmooze (with beautiful ambient music)

3:00-4:30pm – New Horizons in Jewish Early Music Research (15 min each with 5 min questions)

        Matt Austerklein – “Michtam L’David: Confessions of a Sixteenth-Century Klezmer” “

        Diana Matut: “Singing for a Groom and Bride in Early Modern Ashkenaz”

        Mark Kligman: “Eighteenth-Century Styles of Hazzanut in Germany”

        Paul Feller-Simmons: “Reclaiming Esther for Sephardic Amsterdam”

6:30pm-8:00pm – Concert:

JEWISH EARLY MUSIC CONCERT WITH UCLA EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE

            Our program will combine the scholarly presentation of information and ideas along with performance.  Cantor Matthew Austerklein and Dr. Diana Matut will join the UCLA Musicology Department’s Early Music Ensemble.  There are limited written sources of Jewish music prior to 1800.  Extant documents show a wide range of influences in the Middle East and Europe.  Creating the sounds of early Jewish music scholars and performers developed with clues from handwritten textual documents and musical notation.  The repertoire presented will include 16th and 17th Century Yiddish songs, liturgical music from Amsterdam in the 18th Century along with German synagogue music from the late 1700s to the early 1800s.  This unique program will bring to light unique and hidden sounds.

            This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of the American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Free with Registration (at More Info, below)

Lani Hall Schoenberg Music Building  (Lani hall is near the music library, north-west side of building)

            445 Charles E. Young Drive East   Los Angeles, 90095

Parking : Self-service parking is available at UCLA’s Parking Structure #2 for events in Schoenberg Music Building and the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center. Costs range from $4 for 1 hour to $15 for all day. Evening rates (after 4 p.m.) are $3-$5 for 1 to 2 hours and $10 for all night.

More info and Registration:

https://milkenjewishmusiccenter.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/events/1461/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6VJhoD4b-i6ejF8-kEuMI4SU56g97oENIddLylYkPSDVlmP3rwUUq2OrjPCg_aem_vAC9CqLpIMF2Oq4opBCANw

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Saturday, April 26, 2PM, 2:00PM (San Gabriel)

USC Collegium Musicum

Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida

Villançicos and Tonos humanos from Iberia and Latin America

Spanish Songs of the Siglo de Oro and Beyond

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

427 South Junipero Serra Drive, Dr. San Gabriel, CA, 91776

 

Sunday, April 27, 2025  5 pm (Redondo Beach)

Peninsula Symphony : Mozart, Salieri, and Hummel

David Cubek directs the. Marissa Benedict solos.

Free Concert.

Preconcert lecture for Members at 4:15 pm.

more info: For more concert and membership information, call the Peninsula Symphony Assoc at 310-544-0320, visit www.pensym.org or email music.pensym@verizon

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May 2025

 

Friday, May 2, 2025, 8:00 PM (USC campus, near downtown LA)

Thornton Baroque Sinfonia: The Corded Shell: The Power of Music from Purcell to Handel

Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida

USC campus, Newman Recital Hall

Important Note about Visiting Campus:

For campus access guests who are not current USC Students, Faculty, or Staff should email Rotem Gilbert <rotemgil@usc.edu> in order to be pre-registered for the event. Please include your name and the names of those in your party coming to the lecture in the email.

Pre-registered visitors will receive an email with a link to a QR code. Visitors must present the QR code and a valid photo ID at any of the open UPC or USC Village entry gates to enter campus.

For more information, contact Adam Knight Gilbert at akgilber@usc.edu or  (213) 821-6052

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May 4, 2025 at 7:30pm (Pasadena)

Tallis Scholars : The 500th Anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina.

The Music at Saint Andrew Concert Series presents the Tallis Scholars only concert in Southern California on their Spring 2025 tour . Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music. The 500th anniversary of Palestrina's birth gives us the perfect opportunity to celebrate this most consummate of renaissance composers. Presenting a little-known but exceptional mass setting, from the 107 he wrote;  one or two of his greatest motets; to put these motets alongside music by his almost-contemporary, Orlandus Lassus. Sometimes Lassus sounds like Palestrina, sometimes he doesn't. Either way the comparison is fascinating.

Tickets $28-$188  To purchase tickets please https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tallis-scholars-500th-anniversary-of-giovanni-pierluigi-de-palestrina-tickets-1305030414099?aff=oddtdtcreator

St. Andrew Catholic Church 311 North Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91103

more info https://www.saintandrewpasadena.org/concerts

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