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San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra: "Grand Tour" Concert (San Francisco CA)
Three hundred years ago European men and women of means took “The Grand Tour” of the continent in search of art, culture, and learning.
And now YOU can take a musical “Grand Tour” with the SF Mandolin Orchestra. Our fall program features orchestral works from Germany, Spain, Italy, and other countries representing the heart of European culture. Our musical journey will include:
--Violin Concerto in A minor by J.S. Bach, featuring our music director Achille Bocus as mandolin soloist
--Mandolin Concerto in C Major by Antonio Vivaldi, featuring concert master Corey Johnson
--Excerpts from Joaquin Rodrigo’s guitar concerto Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre, featuring soloist Nicholas Martin
--March from the opera Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
--Sinfonia in G Major by Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Palo Alto:
Sunday, October 28 at 400pm
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
Piedmont:
Saturday, November 3 at 400pm
Piedmont Center for the Arts
801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont
San Francisco:
Sunday, November 4 at 500pm
Mission Dolores Chapel
320 Dolores Street, San Francisco
Concerts are family-friendly. Admission is $20 general, $15 student/senior, and free for children 12 and under. Tickets may be purchased at the door, or at our ticketing site: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/597471.
For more information about these performances visit https://sfmandolin.org/fall-2018-concert-dates/. As always, you can read about the orchestra at www.sfmandolin.org.