SC Baroque Festival offers 3 off-season Special Events each year: The Fall Organ Benefit Concert, Music in the Gardens Tour, and the Boomeria (Organ) Extravaganza.
Fall Organ Benefit Concert
Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 7:30pm ~ Holy Cross Church
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The Baroque Festival's upcoming Fall Organ Benefit Concert
features organist Bruce Sawhill in the sonorous company of trumpet
soloists Guy Clark and Kathryn James-Adduci. This program of
mostly baroque-period repertoire will offer a mixture of organ solo pieces,
pieces for organ and 1 or 2 trumpets, and trumpet solos. Highlights include
two of the great Bach Preludes and Fugues (G Major and G Minor), along
with two uncommonly-performed Baroque pieces: a Canzona by J.S. Bach and a
Passacaglia by Buxtehude, both for organ. The selection of brass and
organ pieces will include works by Stanley, Purcell,
Vivaldi, Telemann, and others. Featured in addition to
all-baroque works is the haunting "Prayer of St. Gregory" by Alan
Hovhaness, a work that is neoclassical in structure. Click Here for more
program information.
All proceeds from this annual organ concert will benefit
the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, a community non-profit arts organization now
in its 37th season. Tickets are $20 and available here. (Tickets for youth K-12 may be purchased for $2
at the door only.)
Sunday, May 30, 2010 from 1 to 5 pm ~ Santa Cruz area gardens
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Our tour features some of the area's finest private gardens, along with snacks, drinks, and wine. A variety of music groups complement the natural splendor and culinary selections with musical offerings spanning a range of folk and ethnic styles. This event is a fundraiser and proceeds benefit the continued operation of the Baroque Festival's annual concert season. Tickets are $30 ($25 for subscribers) and available through SCBF, the UCSC Ticket Office, the Civic Center Box Office, and various local garden and music stores (TBA on our website).
For more information on our past 2009 season's tour Click Here. (Information on our upcoming 2010 tour will be posted in spring of 2010.)
Boomeria Extravaganza
Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 1 to 5 pm ~ Chapel Royal at Boomeria (Bonny Doon)
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Explore the fantastic environs of BOOMERIA, enjoy
delicious snacks & drinks outdoors, and - best of all - hear a selection
of organists play the wonderful pipe organ in the Chapel. The festivities
will begin with cannon thunder and Preston Boomer performing Spanish Battle
Music. Boomeria is located in Bonny Doon and directions will be provided to
ticket holders. Admission: $50. Please note: advance ticket sales only. The
annual Boomeria Organ Concert is a fundraiser for the SC Baroque Festival.
Your ticket purchase benefits our upcoming season of early music
concerts.
Click here for more
information on Boomeria.
Click here to read an
article about Preston Boomer in the LA Times (March 2007).
Click here to read an article
about Preston Boomer in the Santa Cruz Sentinel (July 2009).
