Calextone Performance History
Letitia Berlin ~ recorders, douçaine, psaltery, voice
Frances Blaker ~ recorders, hammered dulcimer
Shira Kammen ~ harp, vielle, voice
Allison Zelles Lloyd ~ voice, harp
June 11, 2024 “Solarium: 14th Century Music Honoring the Cosmos”, Berkeley Early Music Festival Fringe Concert, Berkeley Piano Club
January 12-13, 2024 “Januario” Academy of Early Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan
December 2-4, 2022 “Januario” San Francisco Early Music Society Concert Series https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JztogTrMOr7wxdJOahqRvwOujIeEfYPK/edit
June 9, 2022 “The Age of Bocaccio’s Decameron” Berkeley Early Music Festival Fringe Concert, Berkeley Piano Club https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JdVEv1K48YRhgupmRiNsiKtOzp5XpU8u/edit
Early March 2022 streaming concert of music from 14th-century Italy for Early Music Hawaii
June 5, 2021 streaming concert of music from 14th-century Italy for the San Francisco Early Music Society
May 24, 2019 “Una Panthera: Music of the Italian Trecento” Barefoot Chamber Music Series, Berkeley, CA https://docs.google.com/document/d/1thoXcmHUGrn-e1X_5kqar3LNoRIrRM1q/edit
June 4, 2018 “The Lady and the Falcon: German Music from the Cusp of the Renaissance” Berkeley Early Music Festival Fringe Concert, Berkeley Piano Club, with special guests Temmo Korisheli and Andrea Fullington
January 26 and 28, 2018 “Calextone and Ensemble ARI: works by Brahms, Gordon Jacob, and 15th century German composers,” Moraga College, Moraga, CA and Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose, CA
October 18, 2016 “Celestial Music for the Soul” Noontime Concerts, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, CA
June 18, 2016 “Solatium: Music for Summer Solstice” (14th Century Music Honoring Celestial Bodies) Marin Baroque, Marin, CA
June 6, 2016 Berkeley Early Music Festival Fringe Concert, Trinity Chapel, Berkeley, CA https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EzuyYkXPObgHXd1vcYdtxpHhhfV0H5fg/edit
January 2, 2015 “Januario” (Music for the New Year: works by Dufay, and from the original Carmina Burana) Hillside Community Church, El Cerrito, CA
October 24, 2015 “The Subtle Art: Courtly Love at the Beginning of the Renaissance” Humanities West, SF, CA
October 10, 2015 “The Subtle Art: Courtly Love at the Beginning of the Renaissance” Apollo Arts, Oregon House, CA
June 1, 2015 “The Art of Courtly Love (Love Songs from 15th century France) in memory of Grace Krumdieck, St, Alban’s Episcopal Church, Albany, CA https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/shared-with-me
February 14, 2015 “The Art of Courtly Love” (Love Songs from 15th century France) Marin Baroque, Marin, CA
February 14, 2014 “The Subtle Art: Gorgeous & Lush love songs of 14th &15th century France” Marin Baroque, San Anselmo, CA
November 3, 2013 “The Subtle Art” (Machaut, Busnois, Mureau) Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts, Carmel , CA
January 13, 2013 “De toutes flours” (music of Machaut, Solage, Binchois Busnoys) St. Mary Magdalen, Berkeley, CA
The San Francisco Early Music Society presents Calextone in a program of music to celebrate the turning of the year.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 8:00PM
First Presbyterian Church
1140 Cowper Street at Lincoln
Palo Alto
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 7:30PM
First Church Berkeley UCC (First Congregational)
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley CA
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 4:00PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco
Calextone and guest percussionist Peter Maund bring to life the music, readings and illustrations from Giovanni Boccacio’s Decameron with songs and dances by 14th-century Florentine composers, including Francesco Landini, Lorenzo da Firenze and Jacopo da Bologna. Stories of hunting, games, love, ribaldry and longing are interspersed with poet Lawrence Rosenwald’s pithy commentary spoken in the guise of Christine de Pisan’s Ladies of Justice, Fortune, Rectitude, and Nature.
Thursday June 9 at 4:30 pm
at the Berkeley Piano Club,
2724 Haste St. Berkeley.
Admission $15 to $20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
https://berkeleyfestival.org/the-fringe/2022-fringe-calendar/