Joseph Sargent | San Francisco Classical Voice

Joseph Sargent holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University and teaches at the University of San Francisco.

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Back to Chanticleer’s Roots

Joseph Sargent - May 18, 2010

A panorama of the creative smorgasboard from the 16th century will be on display in Chanticleer’s final season concert, “For Thy Soul’s Salvation: Music for England’s Monarchs,” presented June 2-5 in Berkeley, Sacramento, San José, and San Francisco.

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Earplay’s Portal to the New

Joseph Sargent - May 10, 2010

Many of the pieces Earplay performs have Bay Area roots, part of conductor Mary Chun’s stated emphasis on giving voice to local composers. For its May 24 concert, “Ports and Portals,” held at Herbst Theatre in partnership with the S.F. International Arts Festival, the ensemble adds two more world premieres and two West Coast premieres to the tally.

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Why Cantare Con Vivo Sings

Joseph Sargent - May 3, 2010

Cantare Con Vivo Music Director David Morales takes the title of his ensemble quite literally. In 23 years of conducting this conglomerate of large, small, and children’s groups, he has developed an unwavering commitment to using singers’ own life experiences to enhance their performance.

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Massing for Josquin’s Armed Man

Joseph Sargent - April 26, 2010

The San Francisco Renaissance Voices present a daunting program of two Masses by Josquin des Prez.

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LIBER Lights Love’s Flame

Joseph Sargent - April 3, 2010

Modern listeners can find 14th-century secular music tough to grasp. Working within highly restrictive formal structures, this era’s composers and poets created elaborate ruminations on wide-ranging themes — love, loss, justice, virtue — in a sound world quite distinct from earlier chant or later imitative polyphony.

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Broadly Baroque

Joseph Sargent - March 16, 2010

Among the ever-expanding roster of early-music groups, Passamezzo Moderno seems decisively committed to diversity.

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Quartet San Francisco Goes to the Movies

Joseph Sargent - March 8, 2010

Quartet San Francisco is definitely not your grandmother’s string quartet. While other ensembles stick to classical masters like Beethoven and Brahms, this ensemble’s tastes also lean toward blues and bluegrass — not to mention jazz, pop, funk, and even tango.

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Raise Voices, Feed Body and Soul

Joseph Sargent - March 2, 2010

In a time when natural disasters in Haiti and Chile have many people mobilizing their charitable impulses, the musicians of Voices of Music are lending their own helping hand.

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Striking Music From the Convent

Joseph Sargent - February 22, 2010

Being a nun in 17th-century Italy had its fair share of challenges. While life in the convent offered an existence of some comfort and stability for the pious, nuns were governed by strict codes regulating their mobility, their visibility to the outside world, and visits from their families.

Monteverdi, Man of the Moment

Joseph Sargent - February 17, 2010

2010 isn't even two months old, and already it's shaping up to be a banner year for Claudio Monteverdi, thanks to the 400th anniversary of the composer's towering Vespro della Beata Vergine. But if you take your Monteverdi a little less monumental, the California Bach Society's next concert set may be just the ticket.