On December 5th and 6th, the Jubilate Orchestra will join with The San Francisco Choral Society for performances of Parts 4-6 of J.S. Bach's magnificent Christmas Oratorio. The concerts complete the cycle begun a year ago when the first half of the oratorio and continue a long relationship between the two ensembles. Jubilate performed Bach's Magnificat with the Choral Society in 2004.
Like Magnificat, the San Francisco Choral Society was established in 1989 and since then has shared their joy and enthusiasm for choral music with more than 60,000 concertgoers. The Choral Society's year-round program offers singers the opportunity to perform major choral works with professional orchestras and soloists in front of live audiences. They also provide low-cost music instruction to our singers in the form of classes and workshop and a student internship program.
Jubilate has worked with the Choral Society's director Robert Geary in numerous projects over the past two ...
The Jubilate Orchestra, a project of Magnificat, will perfrom with Bay Choral Guild on November 20, 21, and 22 . The program features Handel's marvelous setting of Psalm 109 Dixit Dominus, Alessandro Scarlatti's Messa di Santa Cecilia, and Monteverdi's setting of Psalm 112 Beatus vir.
Magnificat's relationship with Bay Choral Guild is almost as old as Magnificat. The Jubilate Orchestra (then called the Magnificat Baroque Orchestra) first performed with Bay Choral Guild (then called Baroque Choral Guild) in March 1989, joining with the choir in J.S. Bach's motet Jesu meine freude. Since then, Jubilate has collaborated with BCG almost every season, first under Robert Geary and more recently under music director Sanford Dole.
In addition to projects with BCG, Jubilate has performed with the Sanford Dole Ensemble with the choir of St. Gregory Nyssen Episcopal Church, which Sanford also directs. Active in the Bay Area as a conductor, singer and composer for ...
Over the past weekend, the Jubilate Orchestra, a project of Magnificat, served as the "pit orchestra" for Urban Opera's production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. The performances took place in a sculpture garden between two office buildings by Mission Bay. The San Francisco Weekly noted that Bay Area audiences have the choice of a plethora of opera experiences and welcomed Urban Opera's concept into the mix while acknowledging the climatic complications that the City by the Bay poses.
I was struck by the similarities in the company's intention of "telling the beautiful, yet often improbable, stories of the classic operas in a compelling way for a modern audience" by setting these "tales of passion, betrayal, love and loss in unexpected locations in the City with minimal sets and emerging, talented singers who aren't afraid to take risks" and the adventures of the intrepid and talented chamber music ensemble Domus in the early 80s.
Indeed, Urban ...
