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	Sunday, March 18th, 4:00 pm, 2012 All Saints' Episcopal, 555 Waverley St, Palo Alto	Buy Palo Alto Tickets
	Saturday, March 24, 7.30 pm, 2012 All Souls Episcopal, 2220 Cedar St, Berkeley	Buy Berkeley Tickets
	Friday, March 30, 7.30 pm, 2012 Mission Dolores, San Francisco	Buy San Francisco Tickets

Past Seasons

Season 11 (Winter 2011): Winter

San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra’s Fall 2011 season culminated in its four October-November concerts under the theme of “Winter (the Cool Concert).” This selection encompassed the sweeping strains of Finnish composer Sibelius’ “Rakastava” (“The Lover”), and “Romance in C” and the icicles of Vivaldi’s classic “Winter Concerto.” We mix in with this Norwegian composer, Grieg’s famous “Peer Gynt Suite” and the well-known “Morning Mood” and “Hall of the Mountain King,” and ended with a piece by David Grisman, celebrating the 100th birthday of Blue Grass legend, Bill Monroe – just to show that the mandolin has an American repertoire all its own.

Season 10 (Spring 2011): Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

This season our entire concert consisted of a single work, the Medioeval poem Stabat Mater set to music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in 1736. “Stabat Mater” written in Latin in the thirteenth century is about the thoughts of Mary, Mother of Jesus, at the foot of the cross. Many composers have tried their hand at setting it to music, and Pergolesi's work is perhaps the best-known. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater was originally written for soprano, alto, two violins, viola, and basso continuo. Achille Bocus has rearranged the work for our orchestra, and we will feature Soprano Susan Gundunas and Mezzo-Soprano Twila Ehmcke as the soloists. See repertoire page for live recordings.

Fall/Winter 2010

The theme from Fall/Winter 2010 was “Air,” and it included quite a varied mixture under this relaxing theme. In our repertoire we had: Corelli’s Concerto Grosso No. 8, a beautiful example of the Italian style of freely-breathing themes or “ariosita;” the spacey song “I talk to the Wind” by the Beatles-era, British Progressive Band “King Crimson;” “Addio Milano,” written by our conductor, Achille Bocus and describing a change of air, as he left Milan and moved to the Bay Area. We also played Mendelssohn’s sechs Kinderstuecke (six pieces for children) to complete our collection of music about childhood that begin with the 2009 season and Schumann’s Kinderzenen and which we have recorded for our upcoming CD. See repertoire page for live recordings.

Spring 2010 season concerts

Theme: The British Invasion (British 1960s-70s Popular Music)

Fall - Winter 2009 Season Concerts

Theme: Childhood

Spring 2009 Season Concerts

Theme: Past Season Favorites

Spring - Winter 2008 Season Concerts

Theme: Renaissance and Contemporary Classical Music

Spring and Fall 2007

Theme: Russian Classical and Folk Music

2006 Noe Valley Plucked Stringed Orchestra/San Francisco Lutenists