Charles Sherman

The San Francisco Early Music Society's 2019-2020 Concert Season Will Continue with MUSICA PACIFICA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 15, 2020

The San Francisco Early Music Society's 2019-2020 Concert Season continues next month with Musica Pacifica. One of the Bay Area's most venerable early music ensembles, Musica Pacifica will perform a program of scintillating 18th-century Scottish music, delightfully blurring distinctions between classical and folk music. The concert is a follow-up to the group's most popular CD, Dancing in the Isles.

San Francisco Early Music Society Announces 2019-20 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 8, 2019

The San Francisco Early Music Society Presents Musica Pacifica, 11/30-12/2
by Kelsey Denette - Nov 6, 2012

The San Francisco Early Music Society announces its annual Christmas concert performed by the Bay Area's Musica Pacifica. The distinguished chamber ensemble offers a festive tour of Christmas music from 18th-century England, France, Germany, and Italy. Special guests Clara Rottsolk, soprano, and Washington McClain, oboe, join the core group of Judith Linsenberg, recorder, Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin, Charles Sherman, harpsichord, and Josh Lee, cello and gamba. Their program will include traditional English carols, French noëls from Corrette and Charpentier, H.I.F. Biber's 'Nativity' Sonata from his famous set of 15 Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas, Antonio Vivaldi's vivacious chamber concerto La Pastorella, and sacred sonatas and arias from Handel, Telemann, and Bach.

Photo Flash: Minnelli, et al. Gather for Academy Theatre Re-Opening
by BWW Photo Special - Nov 17, 2010

Last night, 59th Street between Park and Lexington was a little stretch of Tinseltown. Lighthouse International and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ('AMPAS') unveiled the newly restored Academy Theater at Lighthouse International. And some of Hollywood's greatest stars were out to celebrate the occasion.