Free Classical Concerts in NorCal

Date: Tue, Oct 20, 12:30 PM PDT

NCCO Quartet

Format: ChamberFree

Venue: Old St. Mary's Cathedral • Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area • Map • Details

Dawn Harms, Violin Candace Guirao, Violin Liz Prior, Viola Kyle Stachnik, Cello Program: W. A. Mozart: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte Clarice Assad: Canções da América Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 56 ” Voces intimae” Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser’s Option with Variations (arr. Jacob Garchik) Astor Piazzolla: Tango Ballet

Schumann, Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major Barber, Cello Sonata

Join us for our Noon Concert Series , where student musicians from a variety of instrumental and vocal studios take the stage. Each performance offers a vibrant showcase of emerging talent, celebrating music in a relaxed midday setting. Admission Information Free admission Parking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.

Join us for our Noon Concert Series , where student musicians from a variety of instrumental and vocal studios take the stage. Each performance offers a vibrant showcase of emerging talent, celebrating music in a relaxed midday setting. Admission Information Free admission Parking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.

October 24th, 2026 12:00pm Campbell United Methodist Church 1675 S Winchester Blvd

Join us for an unforgettable evening of music as the San José State University Honors Wind Ensemble takes the stage, featuring outstanding high school musicians from across the region. Nominated by their band directors and studio teachers, these talented students will come together under the direction of Dr. David Vickerman and Dr. Grant Knox to perform an exciting program of wind band music.

Title: A Theory of Operatic Scene Type Abstract: Scholars of opera since Salome - a placeholder for the historical moment at which one could no longer count on functional harmony, straightforward narrative, or tonally-defined forms at the opera - need ways to talk about opera that are not confined to the silos of composer, subgenre, and style, nor reduced to mere reportage. Inspired by Saariaho's L'amour de loin , I recognized that c ertain scenes have recurred over the centuries, presumably because they make for good theater and offer tantalizing opportunities for musical and poetic expression as well as virtuosic display: love duets, diegetic songs, rage arias. Each of these narrative nodes has accrued features pertaining to music, vocalism, poetry, character, performance practice, and/or staging, that, in the aggregate, constitute a scene type. And, most importantly, each scene type remains recognizable as such regardless of musical style . In other words, the scene type is akin to operatic DNA. This talk sketches out my theory and demonstrates its application in excerpts drawn from a wide range of repertoire. Joy H. Calico is Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Department of Musicology at UCLA. Her scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary Cold War cultural politics, opera since 1900, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her current projects include a theory of twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera according to scene type built on Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin (under contract with University of California Press), and a study of the Arnold Schoenberg Gesamtausgabe as cultural diplomacy and intimate history in the Cold War. Her most recent publication is a coedited volume entitled Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 published by Oxford in June 2026. She and Daniel Chua launched the California Studies in Global Musicology (CSGM) book series in 2024. She is also a member of the international working team of the Black Opera Research Network, and hosted the international symposium Opera | Black | Queer at UCLA earlier this month. Admission Information Free Admission