Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  Oakland

Start Date:

  11/21/2025

End Date:

  11/21/2025

Start Time:

  6:30 PM

End Time:

  7:30 PM

Event Info: 

  Barefoot Chamber Concerts ("an enterprise noted for both its quality and informality" - San Francisco Classical Voice) presents really good music in the right acoustic and without the formality of most classical music events.

In Barefoot's November concert, local heroes Cynthia Keiko Black (violin), Peter Hallifax (viol), and Katherine Heater (harpsichord) will play some of the fabulously decadent French chamber music that preceded the French revolution (during which the mob ate the horses, burnt the harpsichords and viols and generally destroyed all the best loved toys of the aristocracy). Two of Jean-Philippe Rameau's iconic Pieces de Clavecin en Concert bookend the program, which is rounded out with highly ornate, virtuosic music by Antoine Forqueray (for viol and continuo) and Jacques Aubert (for violin and continuo). This is chamber music at its peak: great composers creating exciting music for sophisticates varied, colorful, and inventive. By this time the formal French suite (prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue etc.) had given way to suites consisting of a series of carefully contrasted character pieces, many showing elements of the new Italian taste.

You can hear all this in the lovely acoustic of St. Mary Magdalen Church Magdalen Hall (formerly the parish hall). More information at BarefootChamberConcerts.com.

http://barefootchamberconcerts.com

Location:

  Saint Mary Magdalen Church

Room:

Address:

  2005 Berryman Street

Phone:

  510-220-1195

City:

  Berkeley

State/Province:

  CA