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​October  2026

 

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Friday, October 2nd at 8:00 PM. (USC campus, near downtown LA)

USC Baroque Sinfonia : 20th Anniversary of Adam Gilbert as Director

            On the Early Music Program's 40th Anniversary, celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Adam Gilbert as Director, and the next 40 years to come. This performance will feature Thornton early music students and alumni performing Florentine music from La Pellegrina, compositions by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Claudio Monteverdi, and Adam Gilbert.

            Join us as we thank our students, alumni, faculty, donors, and community for their support over these many years, and help us celebrate the vibrant future of our USC Early Music Program!  Bring a A415 instrument to join in the concert encore!

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FREE, A reception will follow the performance. 

USC, University Park Campus: Newman Recital Hall 700 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089

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more info: https://www.facebook.com/USCEarlyMusic/

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Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 7 p.m.  (Westchester)

Sunday, October 25, 2026 at  4 p.m. (Monrovia)

Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble: A Saintly and Sinful Concert

            A concert of sinful secular and saintly sacred music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Join us for a concert of repertoire ranging from 15th century English drinking songs and bawdy chansons by Lassus and Josquin, to the glorious Ave Maria a 8 by Victoria and Justorum Animae by Palestrina. 

Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 7 p.m.  (Westchester) Holy Nativity Episcopal Church 6700 W 83rd Street, Westchester
Sunday, October 25, 2026 at  4 p.m. (Monrovia) St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 122 S. California Ave., Monrovia

Concert tickets will be available in advance or at the door.

$25 General Admission, $20 Senior / SCEMS member , $10 Students with current ID

more info and tickets: https://www.jouyssance.org/current-season

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Sunday, October 25, 2026, 2:00-3:30PM  (West L.A.)

Friends of St. Bede's Present: The Musical Reunion: Ken Aiso, baroque violin; Sonia Lee, harpsichord; David Garrett, viola da gamba

            The Musical Reunion returns to open the series with an elegant program of 17th- and 18th-century masterworks performed on period instruments. Music by Buxtehude, Jacquet de La Guerre, Bach, Leclair, and Rameau.
Program
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707), Sonata no. 2 in D major, BuxWV 260
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Sonata no. 3 in C major for Violin Solo, BWV 1005 (excerpts)

Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764), Sonata for Violin and Continuo in C minor, op. 5, no. 6 (“Le Tombeau”)

- Intermission -

Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729), Suite no. 3 in A minor (excerpts)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord no. 3 in G minor, BWV 1029
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), Pièces de clavecin en concert no. 4, RCT 10 

About the Artists

            Internationally acclaimed violinist/violist Ken Aiso has performed worldwide as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Equally at home with modern and period instruments, Ken has appeared as principal violin with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Philharmonic, the Hallé and the Scottish Chamber Orchestras.
           David Garrett is a member of the cello section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with previous tenures with the orchestras of Houston, San Antonio, Shreveport, New Orleans, and Grand Rapids. He also directs the Collegium Musicum and maintains one of Southern California’s top cello teaching studios at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University at Long Beach.
           Sonia Lee concertizes on various keyboard instruments and has been invited as soloist and collaborative artist in more than 150 cities on four continents, including early music series and festivals in Bologna, Boston, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris and Utrecht. She has been director of the prestigious Jurow International Harpsichord Competition since 2022.

Freewill offering or join Friends of Music at St. Bede's.

St. Bede's Episcopal Church, 3590 Grand View Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90066

Ample parking in church lot and on the street. https://cmsocal.org/event/the-musical-reunion-st-bedes-episcopal-church-20261025/.

Further information, as it becomes available, will be posted on: https://www.stbedesla.org/friends-of-music.

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