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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's "Myth and the Muse" at First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church (625 Hamilton Ave Palo Alto, CA 94301)
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This program from the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra includes Arne's work Comus, quintessential 18th-century English music with the timeless themes of chaos and order, based on a masque by English poet John Milton; and Rameau's Pygmalion (the source of which is Ovid's Pygmalion myth), a classic French piece. Nicholas McGegan conducts the concert, featuring three guest soloists, the PBO and the Philharmonia Chorale.

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The last date listed for Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra: "Myth and the Muse" was Saturday September 20, 2008 / 8:00pm.

First United Methodist Church
625 Hamilton Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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415-392-4400 City Box Office
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I've never attended a PBO event before, and absolutely loved the music!
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Program
Arne: Comus
Rameau: Pygmalion

There will be a pre-concert lecture at 7:15pm.

Artists
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Sophie Daneman, soprano (Céphise & Amour)
Meredith Hall, soprano (La Statue)
Colin Ainsworth, tenor (Pygmalion)

Philharmonia Chorale
Bruce Lamott, director

Recognized by The New Yorker as “an acclaimed expert in 18th-century style,” Nicholas McGegan is an international conductor. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, he is called upon by symphony orchestras across the globe to conduct not only the music of Handel, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart, but also Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn and clean-limbed 20th- and 21st-century music.

About the Ticket Supplier: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra has been dedicated to historically-informed performance of Baroque, Classical and early-Romantic music on original instruments since its inception in 1981.

Under the leadership of Nicholas McGegan, its Music Director since 1985, Philharmonia has become "an ensemble for early music as fine as any in the world today" (Los Angeles Times). The Orchestra performs a subscription season in four cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is regularly heard on tour in the United States and internationally. In addition to Mr. McGegan, the Orchestra has welcomed eminent guest conductors to its podium including William Christie, Andrew Parrott, Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Monica Huggett and Stanley Ritchie.