He loves me… He loves me
not!
Performances on February
8 & 9, 2013
“If I ever miss another [Bach
Collegium SD concert] it will because I am out of town or dead.” -- David
Gregson, OperaWest.com
Cupid will strike lovers of
early music when Bach Collegium San Diego (BCSD), the city’s only early music
performance ensemble, presents a special Valentine’s Day program focusing on
music whose themes bring to mind tales of love gained, love lost, and tears
shed.
Performances are Friday,
February 8, 7:30pm at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park, the group’s
newest venue; and Saturday, February 9, 7:30pm at the Performing Arts Center in
Rancho Santa Fe.
“The great Baroque composers
Handel, Bach, Purcell, and Monteverdi all left great music focusing on the
theme of love in its many complexities. From Purcell’s ‘If music be the
food of love… sing on, sing on!’ that pronounces the virtues of love, to Bach’s
secular canatata ‘Amore Traditore,’ in which a lover finds love a traitorous
thing and hopes cupid’s arrows will miss him. But most importantly…
chocolate! It seems natural to present a program on the subject of love,
followed by a reception with chocolate,” said music director Ruben Valenzuela.
When Cupid Strikes!
Program:
Cantata: Amore Traditore BWV
203, J.S. Bach
Incidental Music from The
Fairy-Queen, Henry Purcell
If love’s a sweet passion (from The
Fairy-Queen), Henry Purcell
Lamento della Ninfa (Amore,
dicea), Claudio Monteverdi
Love in her eyes sits playing
(from Acis & Galatea), G.F. Handel
As when the dove laments (from Acis
& Galatea), G.F. Handel
Pur ti miro (from L’Incoronazione
di Poppea), Claudio Monteverdi
If music be the food of love (3rd version),
Henry Purcell
Chaconne in Three Parts upon a
ground bass, Henry Purcell
DETAILS AND TICKETS
Individual Concerts
Tickets to individual concerts
are $25 or $40. Senior/Student Discount: $20
Rush tickets may be purchased at
the door for $10 if any seats are still available (student ID required).
PRE-CONCERT DISCUSSIONS
A pre-concert discussion begins
45 minutes before each concert. The discussion features selected performers and
audience members, providing an opportunity to discuss the various topics
related to the forthcoming concert.
THE 2012-13 SEASON
Vivat! Music for an EnglIsh
Coronation
Marking the Diamond Jubilee of
Queen Elizabeth II
September 28 & 29, 2012
Hodie! Christus Natus Est
A sequence of choral music for
Advent and Christmas, sung by candlelight
December 14 & 15, 2012
When Cupid Strikes!
Friday, February 8, 2013: San
Diego History Center, Casa de Balboa, Balboa Park, 7:30pm
Saturday, February 9, 2013:
Rancho Santa Fe Performing Arts Center, 7.30pm
Handel: Messiah
An oratorio
Friday, March 15, 2013: St.
James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla, 7:30pm
Saturday, March 16, 2013: Rancho
Santa Fe Performing Arts Center, 5pm
Sunday, March 17, 2013: First
Presbyterian Church, 320 Date Street, San Diego, 5pm
A Venetian Vespers
First Vespers of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin (ca. 1640s)
Friday, May 17, 2013: St. James
by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla, 7:30pm
Saturday, May 18, 2013: San
Diego History Center, Casa de Balboa, Balboa Park, 7:30pm
All dates, times, venues, and
artists may be subject to change.
ABOUT BCSD
Now celebrating its Tenth
Anniversary Season, Bach Collegium San Diego was founded in 2003 by Ruben
Valenzuela with the purpose of enriching San Diego’s music community with
historically informed performances of the Renaissance, Baroque, and in
particular the vocal works of J.S. Bach. Its members bring longstanding
experience from such ensembles as the Academy of Ancient Music (UK), American
Bach Soloists, Festival Ensemble Stuttgart, and the Philharmonia Chorale.
During its first nine seasons, the ensemble has earned an impressive
reputation, captivating diverse audiences with its unique style and highly
expressive and provocative approach to the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire
and beyond. The ensemble regularly participates in an international tour to
Mexico City with performances at the Festival Internacional del Organo Barroco.
BCSD has brought many historically informed first performances to San Diego for
the first time. Such works include Handel’s Theodora and Messiah, Bach’s St.
John Passion and B minor Mass, and Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. BCSD was the only
North American performance ensemble invited to participate in Bolivia’s
national Baroque Music Festival in 2012.
Ruben
Valenzuela, Music Director
Pierre
Joubert, Associate Director
P.O.
BOX 33754
San
Diego CA 92163 USA
619-341-1726
Bach
Collegium San Diego Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization.
