Two Concerts on the Same Day Next Month!

As of this writing, weekend performances next month will begin on Saturday, December 5, when there will be two recitals; and those willing to get from one place to another rapidly will be able to attend both of the events! Furthermore, both of these events have Groupmuse Web pages, which will facilitate making arrangements for attendance. Hyperlinks to those pages will be found below on the respective times of performance as follows:

Nicole Faghihi and Jane Spencer Mills (from the Groupmuse Web page for their Autumn Movements recital)

4 p.m.: Autumn Movements will be performed at a church in the Mission. Soprano Jane Spencer Mills will join forces with the duo of cellist Julian Sommer and Nicole Faghihi on piano. The entire trio will perform the “Vocalise” composition by André Previn. Faghihi will accompany Sommer in the performance of Edvard Grieg’s cello sonata, and Mills will sing Patricia Wallinga’s song cycle, “Autumn Movements” with Faghihi again accompanying. Reservations can be made through the above Web page for $5, and admission at the event will be at least $20.

7:30 p.m.: This venue will be more specific: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, which is located at 1111 O’Farrell Street, just west of the corner of Franklin Street. This will be both a Groupmuse Night Out event and the December Dynamite Guitars recital, presented by the Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts.  ArcoStrum is the duo of Strauss Shi on violin and guitarist TY Zhang. They will begin the program with their own composition, entitled, appropriately enough, “ArcoStrum Overture.” The earliest music on the program will be the “Summer” and “Winter” concertos from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. These are the first four concertos in the twelve violin concertos collected under the title Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (the content between harmony and invention). All of the other selections will be ArcoStrum arrangements, including three Chinese composers (Huiran Wang, Zhihui Li, and Haihuai Huang) and more familiar composers, such as Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Astor Piazzolla, John Williams, and Radamés Gnattali. Reservations are again available through the above Web page. Admission will be $20 with a discount rate of $15 for Supermusers.