Skip to main content

Program

JEAN-FÉRY REBEL
Les caractères de la danse (arranged by Pisendel)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6, No.10

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Suite du théâtre including music from Naïs, Dardanus, Les Boréades, and Les indes galantes

Avi Stein conductor

About This Concert

Join us for a night of Baroque dance classics! After Jean-Féry Rebel’s “characters of the dance” teaches us the full emotional range of Baroque dance, the concert dives into some of the era’s most unforgettable music by Bach (including his ‘Air on a G String’), and Handel. Then, we’re back to the theater with more rousing dance and dramatic music by Rameau, full of rhythm and verve.

Subscribe

Performances

4/10
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
7:30 PM
4/11
First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
7:30 PM
4/12
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
2:30 PM
conductor

Avi Stein

Avi Stein is associate organist and chorus master at Trinity Wall Street, teaches at The Juilliard School and Yale University, and serves as artistic director of the Helicon Foundation. The New York Times described him as “a brilliant organ soloist” in his Carnegie Hall debut and he was featured in an Early Music America magazine article on the new generation of leaders in the field. He appears regularly as a continuo player with the Boston Early Music Festival, Quicksilver, the Clarion Music Society, and Bach Vespers NYC. Stein has directed the young artists’ program at the Carmel Bach Festival and has conducted for Opera Français de New York, Opera Omnia, Amherst Festival Opera, and the critically acclaimed 4×4 Festival. He studied at Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Southern California and was a Fulbright scholar in Toulouse.