During these times of Covid 19, we encourage everyone to take advantage of the live streams, recordings, lectures, and other offerings by our outstanding local musicians.
If you love music, consider attending Compline, a sung service of chant and polyphony in candlelight, and Evensong, a contemplative service with psalms, canticles, hymns, and anthems. Live Streamed HERE on our Facebook Group page.
Please check the featured group's website for ticket availability, updated times, and program information, as details can change.
Please check the featured group's website for ticket availability, updated times, and program information, as details can change.
A Series of Music History Lectures
by John Prescott, Ph.D.
Five Saturday afternoons
2:00-4:00pm via Zoom
October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13
There is still time to sign up for the later sessions of this series.
Also, you may sign up for the whole series and receive recordings of the sessions that have already taken place.
Also, you may sign up for the whole series and receive recordings of the sessions that have already taken place.
These lectures will trace musical developments in England through the 1500s. This period saw the religious convulsions of the English Reformation. It also engendered more refined autonomous instrumental music, along with a flowering of secular song.
We will explore how music had to accommodate extreme and sudden shifts between Catholic and Protestant religious practice. Composers, particularly Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, continued to create works of stunning beauty through all this turmoil.
We will learn about developments and refinements in secular music, both vocal and instrumental. In addition to his more notorious traits, Henry VIII was a gifted composer. We will hear his music as well as the music written for his daughter, Elizabeth I, one of the greatest royal patrons of music.
No previous musical experience is necessary.
Come, Listen, Learn,
and join in the Adventure.
To Sign up:I f you wish to participate, email me at: johnrichardprescott@gmail.com. Specify which weeks you want to attend. I will then email you the Zoom link for each session you choose.
Suggested Donation: $25 per individual session, or $100 for the entire series.
Pay by: PayPal or VenMo at: johnrichardprescott@gmail.com
If paying by check, please email me at: johnrichardprescott@gmail.com and I will send you my mailing address.
October 16: Week 1 The End of the Medieval Tradition
Church music under Henry VII and the early years of Henry VIII.
October 23: Week 2 Reformation and Reaction
Church music under Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Bloody Mary.
October 30: Week 3 A New Middle Way
Church music during the reign of Elizabeth I.
November 6: Week 4 Royal Music
Music by, for, and about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
November 13: Week 5 Viols, Voices, and Virginals
Continuing developments in vocal and instrumental music in England.
We will explore how music had to accommodate extreme and sudden shifts between Catholic and Protestant religious practice. Composers, particularly Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, continued to create works of stunning beauty through all this turmoil.
We will learn about developments and refinements in secular music, both vocal and instrumental. In addition to his more notorious traits, Henry VIII was a gifted composer. We will hear his music as well as the music written for his daughter, Elizabeth I, one of the greatest royal patrons of music.
No previous musical experience is necessary.
Come, Listen, Learn,
and join in the Adventure.
To Sign up:I f you wish to participate, email me at: johnrichardprescott@gmail.com. Specify which weeks you want to attend. I will then email you the Zoom link for each session you choose.
Suggested Donation: $25 per individual session, or $100 for the entire series.
Pay by: PayPal or VenMo at: johnrichardprescott@gmail.com
If paying by check, please email me at: johnrichardprescott@gmail.com and I will send you my mailing address.
October 16: Week 1 The End of the Medieval Tradition
Church music under Henry VII and the early years of Henry VIII.
October 23: Week 2 Reformation and Reaction
Church music under Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Bloody Mary.
October 30: Week 3 A New Middle Way
Church music during the reign of Elizabeth I.
November 6: Week 4 Royal Music
Music by, for, and about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
November 13: Week 5 Viols, Voices, and Virginals
Continuing developments in vocal and instrumental music in England.
John Prescott received his M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from U. C. Berkeley. Prior to this, he received his B.A. magna cum laude in Music and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa from Carleton College (MN). He has been the recipient of a number of academic honors, including the British Marshall Scholarship for two years of study at St. John's College in Cambridge, England. He also studied at Oxford University's Worcester College. Dr. Prescott has written extensively on the music of Handel. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on John Stanley, the 18th-century blind organist, conductor, violinist and impresario.
Dr. Prescott has taught music courses at U.C. Berkeley and music theory at The Crowden School (Berkeley CA), and was the musicologist for the San Francisco Elderhostel Arts and Humanities Program. He gives pre-concert lectures for a number of Bay Area musical organizations including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Since 2013 he has been a lecturer at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes.
Dr. Prescott has taught music courses at U.C. Berkeley and music theory at The Crowden School (Berkeley CA), and was the musicologist for the San Francisco Elderhostel Arts and Humanities Program. He gives pre-concert lectures for a number of Bay Area musical organizations including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Since 2013 he has been a lecturer at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes.
Second Concert
Prometheus Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, November 21, 3pm PDT
Eric Hansen, Music Director
prometheussymphony.org
We are pleased to announce our 2021-22 Season.
Preconcert talk at 2:40 PM
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Three Trumpets, Two Oboes, and Timpani
Edward Elgar
In the South
Richard Strauss
Four Songs, Op. 27
Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghami, Soprano
Audience members must show proof of vaccination for admittance.
ADMISSION FREE
Families with children are always welcome.
There is no admission fee for our concerts, but donations are gratefully accepted.
See their website for Covid protocols, updates, and parking details.
Prometheus Symphony Orchestra is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Preconcert talk at 2:40 PM
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Three Trumpets, Two Oboes, and Timpani
Edward Elgar
In the South
Richard Strauss
Four Songs, Op. 27
Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghami, Soprano
Audience members must show proof of vaccination for admittance.
ADMISSION FREE
Families with children are always welcome.
There is no admission fee for our concerts, but donations are gratefully accepted.
See their website for Covid protocols, updates, and parking details.
Prometheus Symphony Orchestra is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.