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PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE CHAMBER PLAYERS
Instrumental and vocal music by Corelli, Handel, Scarlatti and Vivaldi
Nicholas McGegan, harpsichord; Dominique Labelle, soprano, Daniel Taylor, countertenor; Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $60/45/25
A 10-piece ensemble with strings and continuo, featuring Elizabeth Blumenstock on violin and Nicholas McGegan on harpsichord, performs a program of Baroque favorites, including a candlelit performance of Alessandro Scarlatti's moving and rarely-heard Stabat Mater by Dominique Labelle and Daniel Taylor.

EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
One in a series of six one-hour daytime concerts by university and conservatory early music ensembles: Case Western Reserve University, University of North Texas, University of Southern California, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley.
11 AM & 2:30 PM ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)

CHANTICLEER LOUIS A. BOTTO (LAB) CHOIR
Ben Johns, director
Music of New Spain: Exploring California's Missions and Mexico's Cathedrals
5 PM, ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, $15
Enjoy a concert drawn from the rich musical legacy of colonial Mexico and Alta California. The archives of our cathedrals and missions contain troves of great and sometimes unique music from the 16th through the early 19th centuries, from refined Spanish polyphony to rollicking villancicos, with many excellent works written in the New World.

MAGNIFICAT
Warren Stewart, artistic director
with the Dell'Arte Players
L'Amfiparnaso, a Madrigal Comedy by Orazio Vecchi
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $45/35/25
Magnificat revives one their most popular programs in a command performance of Orazio Vecchi's madrigal comedy L'Amfiparnaso (The Twin Peaks of Parnassus). Joining with comedians from the Dell'Arte Players, this work brings to life the timeless characters and antics of the golden age of Italian Commedia. Vecchi's late 16th century masterpiece blends pathos and buffoonery with exquisite counterpoint by satirizing the foibles of the human condition in a series of passionate, hilarious and bawdy madrigals that convey a tale of young-and not-so-young-love interwoven with the intrigues and slapstick foolery of the miserly Pantelone, the boasting Captain, the pompous Gratiano and a host of mischievous clowns.

EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
One in a series of six one-hour daytime concerts by university and conservatory early music ensembles: Case Western Reserve University, University of North Texas, University of Southern California, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley.
11 AM & 2:30 PM ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)

AGAVE BAROQUE
The Otherworldly Fiddler: the sacred and the profane meet at Heinrich Biber's musical table
Aaron Westman, violin and viola; Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba, violoncello; Kevin Cooper, Baroque guitar; JungHae Kim, harpsichord, organ; David Wilson, violin; Josh Lee, viola da gamba, violone; Daniel Zuluaga, theorbo
5 PM, ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, $28
Perhaps the greatest violin virtuoso of the 17th century, Bohemian fiddler Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber crafted his compositions in a style that might be described as a dinner party of disparate sound worlds. His scrumptious Mensa Sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis, is "civilized" Biber, for mealtime and after dinner entertainment. His virtuosic Harmonia artificioso-ariosa employs a rustic folk-fiddle style and demands alternate tunings and techniques. Agave Baroque performs selections from these fascinating collections, as well as works that fearlessly explore the nexus of sacred and profane: Biber's 1682 masterpiece Fidicinium sacro-profanum, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer's stunning Sacro-profanus concentus musicus.

BLUE HERON
Scott Metcalfe, director
Song of Songs/Songs of Love 8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $45/35/25
The poem known as the "Song of Songs" was written down in the 3rd century BCE and was admitted to the canon of Hebrew Scripture long after the Torah and the Prophets, probably towards the end of the first century CE. The poem is plainly about earthly love, but its sensuous language and imagery have been traditionally interpreted by Jewish and Christian religious exegetes as allegory. This program sets the sensuous verses of "Song of Songs" (translated from the original Hebrew into Latin by St Jerome) beside love songs in Spanish, inviting the listener to consider the many meanings and varieties of love and the complex relationship of the divine and the human, now and in the past. Music from 16th-century Spain by Francisco Guerrero, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Sebastián de Vivanco, Juan Vásquez, Nicolas Gombert, and others.

EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (EMA) YOUNG PERFORMERS FESTIVAL
One in a series of six one-hour daytime concerts by university and conservatory early music ensembles: Case Western Reserve University, University of North Texas, University of Southern California, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley.
11 AM & 2:30 PM ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Tickets available at the door for a donation (No advance sales.)

THE NEW ESTERHÁZY QUARTET
Haydn in America—The Moravian Heritage
Kati Kyme & Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; William Skeen, cello
5 PM, ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, $28
The Moravian Brotherhood, persecuted descendants of 15th century Czech religious dissidents, brought a rich musical culture to pre-Revolutionary America. The Moravian Music Foundation archive in Bethlehem and Winston-Salem catalogue thousands of musical works, for use in religious services and also for playing at home and in the Collegia Musica that were part of the settlements' social life into the 19th century. Some of this music was composed by Moravian musicians themselves and some collected or copied from European sources. This program highlights Haydn Quartets performed from copies of handwritten parts or early editions brought by Moravian musicians to America in the 18th century. A talk and an exhibition on the history and influence of the Moravian communities in America accompany the concert.

AMERICAN BACH SOLOISTS
Jeffrey Thomas, music director
A Tribute to Laurette Goldberg
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $50/35/20
An evening of works featuring J.S. Bach's Trauerode: Laβ, Fürstin, laβ noch einen Strahl; a musical ode written at the request of the Leipzig University and dedicated to Christiane Eberhardine, Electress of Saxony and a personal friend of Bach himself. The concert also includes Bach's most engaging double-chorus motets, Singet dem Herrn and Fürchte dich nicht; large-scale motets of this type were regularly composed to honor and memorialize the lives of significant and important individuals.

VOICES OF MUSIC
Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, directors
Roman Holiday
Laura Heimes, soprano; Carla Moore, Maxine Nemerovski, Sara Usher, baroque violins; David Daniel Bowes, Maria Caswell, Katherine Kyme, baroque violin & viola; Elisabeth Reed, William Skeen & Tanya Tomkins, baroque cellos; Farley Pearce, violone; Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord, recorder; Katherine Heater, organ and David Tayler, archlute.
5 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $36/28/23
Voices of Music presents a dazzling program of Baroque concertos and Handel's Roman masterpiece, the Gloria. Each concerto highlights a different combination of instruments and players in a variety of affects, colors and virtuoso playing.

Orient-Occident
Jordi Savall, rebec, bowed lyre and rebab; Dimitri Psonis, santur & moorish guitar; David Mayoral, percussion
8 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $60
A peerless musician and conductor as well as an impeccable scholar, Jordi Savall is a "performer of genius," says The New Yorker. He returns with a fascinating musical journey in time and space, devised on a dialogue of Arabo-Andalusian, Jewish, and Christian music from medieval Spain and around the Mediterranean. This program features music from ancient Spain and the Ottoman Empire, medieval Italy, Persian Afghanistan, and more.

Istanbul
Jordi Savall, rebec, bowed lyre and rebab; Dimitri Psonis, santur & moorish guitar; David Mayoral, percussion
3 PM, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, $60
A peerless musician and conductor as well as an impeccable scholar, Jordi Savall is a "performer of genius," says The New Yorker. He returns with a fascinating musical journey in time and space, devised on a dialogue of Arabo-Andalusian, Jewish, and Christian music from medieval Spain and around the Mediterranean. This program features Sefardic, Armenian, and Turkish music showcased in Moldavian prince Dimitrie Cantemir's The Book of Science and Music, published in 1710 after he spent many years in Istanbul.