Today we had a Concert Committee meeting, and the dates for the major concerts are now set for next season. The dates are:

• Sunday, October 10, 4:00 pm. If music be the food of love
  Carl and Kathy Crosier celebrate milestone birthdays by performing with musical colleagues. A benefit for the LCH Music Endowment Fund.
• November 5, 8:00 pm. Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Virgine 1610. This will be performed at St. Theresa’s Co-Cathedral by the Bach Chamber Choir and Orchestra, and San Francisco-based period brass ensemble, The Whole Noyse.
• November 7, 4:00 pm. Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Virgine 1610. This will be performed at St. Andrew’s Cathedral by the Bach Chamber Choir and Orchestra, and San Francisco-based period brass ensemble, The Whole Noyse.
• January 16, 4:00 pm. The Starks Go for Baroque. Darel Stark will be featured in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Georgine Stark will sing Handel’s Gloria and Bach’s Cantata 51.
• May 13, 8:00 pm. Bach Mass in B-Minor
• May 14, 8:00 pm. Bach Mass in B-Minor. The greatest work of all ages and of all peoples, proclaimed by Hans-Georg Nägeli, 1817.

In addition there will be a number of concerted services including:

• November 14, 8:00 and 10:30 am, Peter Hallock, The Last Judgment
• November 28, 7:30 pm, Advent Procession, The “O” Antiphons
• December 24, 10:30 pm, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Part I
• December 24, 11:00 pm, Praetorius Missa ganz Teudsch
• December 25, 10:30 am, Fauré, Messe Basse
• December 26, 10:30 am, Lessons and Carols for St. Stephen’s Day
• December 26, 7:00 pm, Solemn Vespers for St. Stephen’s, Bach Cantata 57, Hoffman, Deutsches Magnificat
• January 2, 4:00 pm, German Vespers, Bach Cantata 28, Kuhnau Magnificat
• February 20, 7:30 pm, Bach Vespers, Pachelbel Magnificat, Bach Cantata 111
• April 3, 5:30 pm, Joint evensong at St. Andrew’s Cathedral
• August 21, 9:15 am, Haydn, Missa in Angustiis (Lord Nelson Mass) for Carl Crosier’s last Sunday

I think this will be enough to keep us busy and out of trouble!