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“Beethoven Songs & Haydn Trios” – Program Notes for June 3

Music Director Nicholas McGegan contributes these program notes for the June 3 concert that opens the Berkeley Early Music Festival....
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Violinist Maxine Nemerovski Joins the Orchestra

Violinist Maxine Nemerovski has been a near-constant presence on Philharmonia Baroque’s stage for the past fifteen years. In recognition of...
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Video: Gonzalo Ruiz on Making Double Reeds

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra oboist Gonzalo Ruiz discusses and demonstrates the making of double reeds, and how they affect the sound...
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NEW ON CD FROM PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE PRODUCTIONS – HANDEL: ATALANTA

Handel’s 1736 opera Atalanta concluded with a spectacular display of fireworks in its first year of performance; it has only...
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Jane Stuppin: In Memoriam

Founding Board President Peter Strykers remembers the late Jane Stuppin: Jane Kennedy Stuppin died peacefully and not unexpectedly at her...
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Philharmonia Baroque announces its 2012-13 Season

MUSIC DIRECTOR NICHOLAS McGEGAN AND PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE ANNOUNCE 2012-2013 SEASON   Highlights of the 32nd Season Include...
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Beethoven’s Fourths

Nov88:00 pm Nov98:00 pm Nov108:00 pm Nov117:30 pm November Program November 8-11 Atherton, San Francisco, Berkeley          ...
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A Bach Christmas

Dec138:00 pm Dec148:00 pm Dec158:00 pm Dec167:30 pm December Program December 13-16 Atherton, San Francisco, Berkeley        ...
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Quintessence of Classical Style

Feb ’13138:00 pm Feb ’13158:00 pm Feb ’13168:00 pm Feb ’13177:30 pm February Program February 13-17 Stanford, San Francisco, Berkeley          ...
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The Italian Violin

Mar ’13158:00 pm Mar ’13168:00 pm Mar ’13177:30 pm Mar ’13208:00 pm March Program March 15-20 San Francisco, Berkeley, Stanford        ...
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Heroic Theseus

Apr ’13107:30 pm Apr ’13117:30 pm Apr ’13137:30 pm Apr ’13144:00 pm April Program April 10-14 Atherton, San Francisco, Berkeley          ...
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra at Festival del Sole

Jul136:00 pm               Nicholas McGegan, conductor Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano Works by HANDEL – CORELLI...
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Beethoven Songs & Haydn Trios

Jun38:00 pm               Philharmonia Baroque presents Nicholas McGegan (fortepiano) in recital with soprano Dominique...
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Sound the Trumpet

Oct38:00 pm Oct58:00 pm Oct68:00 pm Oct77:30 pm October Program October 3-7 Atherton, San Francisco, Berkeley          ...
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Raves for March concerts: “Schumann’s Cello Concerto”

San Jose Mercury News Cellist Steven Isserlis and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra scale heights of Schumann concerto By Georgia Rowe “With...
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Nicholas McGegan on Performing Brahms

In February 2010, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performed Brahms’ Serenade No. 1, in its first historically-informed performance of the music of...
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March Program Notes – Schumann’s Cello Concerto

Felix Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusine, Op. 32 Felix Mendelssohn, scion of an eminent German banking family, was born in Hamburg on...
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Critics Praise Richard Egarr Concerts

San Francisco Classical Voice English Delights From the PBO by Jonathan Rhodes Lee “That greatest of all `English’ composers, Handel,...
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John Prescott is now a Ph.D.

John Prescott, one of our pre-concert lecturers, has some exciting news to share.  In December he completed his dissertation in...
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Gustav Leonhardt – A Remembrance

Peter Strykers, the first president of the founding board of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (when we were known as Philharmonia, Baroque...
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