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Elizabeth Forsyth and Friends
Join us for our season opener featuring First Church organist Elizabeth Forsyth, joined by friends and family for a concert that promises fun and beauty in equal measure!
Come and…
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Join us for our season opener featuring First Church organist Elizabeth Forsyth, joined by friends and family for a concert that promises fun and beauty in equal measure!
Come and hear classical favorites, including the "Flower Duet" from Lakmé and the Fauré Élegie for cello. First Church Director of Music Derek Tam will join Elizabeth at the chamber organ, the piano, and First Church's iconic 4,873-pipe Petty-Madden organ for music from the movie Interstellar, a concerto for two organs by Giovanni Bernardo Zucchinetti, and a rousing rendition of Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" in honor of our nation's 250th anniversary.
You'll leave humming the tunes from the cheekily entertaining "Instant Concert" by Porter Heaps!
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Fri, Oct 9 · 7:00 PM
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First Cong Ch Berkeley
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Berkeley
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live_music
classical
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$35 general; $20 First Church members and students under 25 |
First Cong Ch Berkeley
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CWICO Orchestra
Rika Iwasaki Ellis, Frances Feldon, Rebecca Hass, Lee Heuermann, and Joyce McBride
Formed in 2025, CWICO (Creative Women Improvising Composers Orchestra) came together to workshop…
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Rika Iwasaki Ellis, Frances Feldon, Rebecca Hass, Lee Heuermann, and Joyce McBride
Formed in 2025, CWICO (Creative Women Improvising Composers Orchestra) came together to workshop, play and perform each other’s work, creating a space for women composers to collaborate. We will feature compositions by each of our members, as well as improvised pieces.
All of us come from diverse backgrounds with wide experience in many musical genres. Collectively, we bring vocal experimentation, African-American music, Brazilian music, medieval/renaissance/baroque European music, classical chamber music, singer song-writer, jazz, alternative chamber pop, new choral music, electro-acoustic, sound design, contemporary dance collaboration, new and experimental music, theatre, and East-Asian-inspired music to our group. We value the power of music to create community, and often include audience input in generating improvisations, through written prompts, picture dice, and other tools.
We value being a part of the long-time Bay area tradition of radical experimentation and especially find it essential in this current time.
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Fri, Feb 26 · 7:00 PM
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First Cong Ch Berkeley
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Berkeley
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live_music
classical
experimental
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$35 general; $20 First Church members and students under 25 |
First Cong Ch Berkeley
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2026-08-28 14:07 |