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Concert: Handel’s The Power of Music in Berkeley

Saturday, November 14 at 2:30 PM · Ticket information

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Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2:30 PM PST

Format: OrchestraTicketed: $40-$125
Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley • Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area • • Details

Fresh off his 2025 London Proms success with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Music Director Peter Whelan opens the 2026/27 subscription season with Handel’s Alexander’s Feast. Centered on a banquet honoring Alexander the Great, the poet Timotheus uses song to guide the room from pride to tenderness, from fury to reflection — a demonstration of music’s power to shape emotion and action. Choose 3, 4, or 5 concerts—as low as $30 per concert SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE Single tickets on sale now! GET TICKETS Program HANDEL Alexander’s Feast, or The Power of Music (1742 Dublin version) (U.S. PREMIERE) Performers Peter Whelan, conductor Sherezade Panthaki, soprano Rachael Wilson, mezzo-soprano James Way, tenor Philharmonia Chorale, Valérie Sainte-Agathe, director

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Date: Sat, Dec 5, 2:30 PM PST

Format: OrchestraTicketed: $40-$125
Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley • Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area • • Details

A bright, celebratory program for the holiday season brings together composers working in the same 18th-century musical world, each writing in a distinct voice. Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” and Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen frame the concert with brilliant writing for soprano and trumpet. Telemann offers humor and narrative in his Burlesque de Quixotte, C.P.E. Bach explores emotional contrast in his cello concerto, and Marianna Martines adds a rarely heard Viennese voice to the program. Choose 3, 4, or 5 concerts—as low as $30 per concert SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE Single tickets on sale now! GET TICKETS Program HANDEL – “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson MARTINES – O virgo, cui salutem debet orbis (WEST COAST PREMIERE) TELEMANN – Burlesque de Quixotte, TWV 55:G10 C.P.E. BACH – Concerto for violoncello in A major, Wq 172 J.S. BACH – Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen , BWV 51 Performers Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor Kathryn Mueller, soprano William Skeen, violoncello Gonzalo X. Ruis, oboe Kathryn Adduci, trumpet

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Date: Sat, Dec 12, 7:00 PM PST

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Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley • • Details

A Chanticleer Christmas, live holiday vocal programme spanning centuries; individual works and singers unannounced. Not a recording, release date or old programme. Numerical general-public admission unconfirmed. Subscription, concession, donation and free-parking benefits are not single-ticket prices. Fees and availability unconfirmed. One individually reviewed public physical classical performance in the 2026–2027 edition. Exact current primary identity/full date/main clock/physical venue required; no guessed end, unnamed cast, biography repertoire, private activity or virtual duplicate. New seasons, changed native IDs and moved performances require continuity review; a missing listing is not cancellation. Exact native/printed full date/main 12-/24-hour clock/actual place, primary programme tag and aware named schema required, not long cloned 2026/9/13 slug or neighboring tour cards. Current season programme paragraph optionally corroborates works/collaborators independently, never price/lifecycle. 17 Bay Area starts, separate same-day matinees/evenings, March13 PST/March14 PDT. Existing Berkeley/Palo Alto church/Mission/Hume identities reused; conflicting Palo Alto Court/Avenue street and Mission ZIP omitted, not silently corrected. Sacramento/Carmel/outside tours and already-owned Stanford/Kaufman/Seattle/Portland stays untouched. Never follow AccessDenied ticket links or infer adult price from subscriptions; no private roster, end or provider request.

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Date: Sun, Dec 13, 7:30 PM PST

Format: RecitalSee ticket options
Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley • • Details

Vivaldi and Bach virtuoso concertos; individual titles/catalogue numbers unannounced. Actual billed soloists retained, not an invented full programme. Numerical general-public admission unconfirmed. Subscription, concession, donation and free-parking benefits are not single-ticket prices. Fees and availability unconfirmed. One individually reviewed public physical classical performance in the 2026–2027 edition. Exact current primary identity/full date/main clock/physical venue required; no guessed end, unnamed cast, biography repertoire, private activity or virtual duplicate. New seasons, changed native IDs and moved performances require continuity review; a missing listing is not cancellation. Current explicit season/full date/main clock/physical place and production-specific cast region. Prior October Forsythe recital is not future cast. Berkeley/Old First IDs reused; December SF only confirms 50 Oak building, not invented Hume/Recital interior or Bowes Center. Published general adult price unconfirmed, no subscription division. No recordings/classes/unnamed musicians/extra end or ticket-provider request.

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Date: Sun, Jan 24, 7:30 PM PST

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Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley • • Details

Soprano Andréa Walker with Renaissance/Elizabethan viol programme; music from Bohemia, England, France and Spain, individual works/remaining players unannounced. Numerical general-public admission unconfirmed. Subscription, concession, donation and free-parking benefits are not single-ticket prices. Fees and availability unconfirmed. One individually reviewed public physical classical performance in the 2026–2027 edition. Exact current primary identity/full date/main clock/physical venue required; no guessed end, unnamed cast, biography repertoire, private activity or virtual duplicate. New seasons, changed native IDs and moved performances require continuity review; a missing listing is not cancellation. Current explicit season/full date/main clock/physical place and production-specific cast region. Prior October Forsythe recital is not future cast. Berkeley/Old First IDs reused; December SF only confirms 50 Oak building, not invented Hume/Recital interior or Bowes Center. Published general adult price unconfirmed, no subscription division. No recordings/classes/unnamed musicians/extra end or ticket-provider request.

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Date: Thu, Dec 31, 7:30 PM PST

Format: OrchestraFree
Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley • Neighborhood: CA • • Details

Program: Lili Boulanger, D'un matin de printemps; Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony #41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter” Admission free. Published SFCO policy says tickets are never required; RSVP is for planning, not a required paid reservation.

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