BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:257@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T160000 DTSTAMP:20190712T172612Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/agave-baroque2018/ SUMMARY:Agave Baroque featuring Reginald Mobley\, countertenor DESCRIPTION:Chamber Music at the Clark concert seating is determined via l ottery. The booking-by-lottery entry form for Agave Baroque featuring Regi nald Mobley\, Countertenor concert seats posts here on Thursday\, March 21 \, 2019. Lottery registration closes Thursday\, April 11\, 2019.\n\nLearn more about the booking-by-lottery system for securing Chamber Music at the Clark seats.\n\nAgave Baroque \n\nAaron Westman and Anna Washburn\, v iolin\nAndrew McIntosh\, viola\nWilliam Skeen\, violoncello and viola da g amba\nHenry Lebedinsky\, organ\nKevin Cooper\, theorbo\nReginald Mobley\, countertenor\n\n“…powerful presence… brilliant… profound playing …”—Early Music America\n\nAgave Baroque is based in the San Francisc o Bay Area\, and specializes in string chamber music of the seventeenth an d eighteenth centuries. The members of the group reside and are active far and wide\, and come together from Basel\, Boston\, Seattle\, Fresno\, San Francisco\, and Marin.\n\nAgave has received numerous awards and accolade s and gained local and national attention as “an energized… free spiri ted group\,” as well as for its “rapturous music\,” “brilliant... profound playing\,” and growing discography. Now in its tenth season\, A gave continues its fruitful affiliations with star countertenor Reginald M obley\, InterMusic SF (formerly San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music)\, and the Sylvestris Quartet. It continues to be a unique and innovative voi ce in the chamber music community nationally.\n\nDuring its initial season \, Agave was selected by Early Music America to perform in a showcase conc ert at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Convention in New York. In 2009\, The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles commissio ned Cold Genius: the music of Henry Purcell\, which Agave premiered at the museum in 2010\, and subsequently recorded. In 2011 Agave Baroque was one of five finalists in the NAXOS/EMA Recording Competition. In 2012\, the S an Francisco Early Music Society chose Agave to present a main stage conce rt at the 2012 Berkeley Early Music Festival. Later in 2012\, Agave compet ed in New York as one of six finalists at the Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition. Agave received a generous grant from the San Fran cisco Friends of Chamber Music to record Friends of Ferdinand\, which VGo Recordings released in 2013. For the 2014–15 season\, Agave became an en semble in residence at the San Francisco Friends  of Chamber Music/Presid io Trust's concert series\,  Presidio Sessions. They also collaborated wi th Los Angeles new music concert series Jacaranda: music at the edge\, and embarked on a Southeastern US tour with Reginald Mobley\, which included a residency at University of North Carolina School of the Arts.\n\nIn 2015 \, Agave released Queen of Heaven: Music of Isabella Leonarda\, their firs t album with Mr. Mobley. In 2016\, Mr. Mobley and Agave collaborated on a second album\, Peace in Our Time\, whose February\, 2018 release marked th e 400th anniversary of the start of the Thirty Years' War\, when conflict and the Plague ravaged much of Europe.\n\nAgave Baroque has performed to s old-out crowds throughout the Bay Area\, including at Barefoot Chamber Con certs\, SF Music Day\, Chattanooga Chamber Music\, Noe Valley Chamber Musi c\, Old First Concerts\, Sonoma Bach\, Presidio Sessions\, MSRI\, San Fran cisco Early Music Society\, and Trinity Chamber Concerts\, as well as at B itterroot Baroque (Montana)\, Fresno City College\, Fresno Pacific Univers ity\, the Museum of Jurassic Technology\, Music at St. Albans (NC)\, Jacar anda (Los Angeles)\, Arizona Early Music Society\, Pacific Music Works Und erground\, Seattle Early Music Guild\, University of North Carolina School of the Arts\, Appalachian State University\, and the Berkeley Early Music Festival. On-air appearances include KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles\, KALW (SF)\, WDAV (North Carolina)\, New Mexico Public Radio\, as well as several features on NPR's Harmonia early music radio program. Agave Baroqu e has also presented two programs to groups of K-12 educators as part of t he San Francisco Symphony's "Keeping Score" program.\n\nwww.agavebaroque.o rg\n\nAgave Baroque is represented by Seth Cooper Arts: www.sethcooperarts .com\n\nReginald Mobley\, countertenor\n\n“a young countertenor destined to make his mark in the early music world”—Chicago Tribune\n\nNoted f or his “crystalline diction and pure\, evenly produced tone” (Miami He rald)\, as well as an “elaborate and inventive ornamentation” (South F lorida Classical Review)\, countertenor Reginald Mobley is highly sought a fter for baroque\, classical\, and modern repertoire.\n\nPast performances of note include the premier of a reconstruction of Bach’s Markus-Passio n at the Oregon Bach Festival\, devised and led by Matthew Halls\, a premi ere of Eric Banks’ Aluta continua: the passion of David Kato Kisule with Coro Allegro\, concerts of Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Lully’s Te Deum with Bach Collegium San Diego\, and an extensive tour of sixteen concerts around Europe singing Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with the Monteverdi Choi r’s English Baroque Soloists led by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.\n\nThe 2016 –2017 season included a tour and recording of Bach’s Magnificat with S ir John Eliot Gardiner\, concerts of Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Sco ttish National Orchestra\, several performances with the Seattle Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestras\, as well as an innovative project wit h the Academy of Ancient Music entitled Bach Reconstructed. The 2018–19 season marks Mobley’s debut with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in S an Francisco.\n\nhttp://www.reginaldmobley.com\n\nReginald Mobley is repre sented by CLB Management: https://www.clbmanagement.co.uk/\n\n\n\nProgram\ n\nJohann Michael Bach (1648–1694)\nSonata and Capriccio in G Minor\n\nJ ohann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749)\nSuite No. 1 in G minor (partial)\nOvert ure\nPhilipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714)\n“Trocknet Euch Ihr heißen Zähren”\n\nHeinrich Bach (1615–1692)\nChorale prelude\, “Erbarm di ch mein\, O Herre Gott”\n\nJohann Rosenmüller (1619–1684)\nChristum d ucem\, qui per crucem \n\nJohann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)\nSonata for Violin and Continuo in G Major\, BWV 1021\nAdagio\nVivace\nLargo\nPresto\n Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)\nQuoniam\, Lutheran Mass in F\, BWV 23 3\n\nIntermission\n\nJohann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)\n(after G.H. Stö lzel)\n“Bekennen will ich seinen Namen\,” Bekennen will ich seinen Nam en\, BWV 200\n\nJohann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749)\nSuite No. 1 in G minor (partial\, continued)\nAir\nFantaisie\nPassepied\nJohann Sebastian Bach ( 1685–1750)\n“Mit allem\, was ich hab und bin\,” Alles nur nach Gotte s Willen\, BWV 72\n\nJohann Christoph Bach (1642–1703)\nCiaconna: “Mei n Freund ist Mein\,” Meine Freundin\, du bist schön\n\nJohann Christoph Bach (1642–1703)\n“Es ist nun aus mit meinem leben”\n\nReception ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08 /comp-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR