St. Matthew’s Orchestra and Choir to Highlight Vivaldi St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of music director and conductor Tom Neenan, will perform an all-Vivaldi program on Friday, December 8, at 8 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Church, 19031 Bienveneda Ave. The concert will feature the ‘Gloria’ and a recently discovered ‘Magnificat’ by Vivaldi, who served as maestro de capella at the famous Ospedale della Pieta in Venice at the beginning of the 18th century. The Choir of St. Matthew’s Parish and vocal soloists will be featured. Also on the program will be two instrumental concertos’the Concerto in D Major, with mandolin virtuoso Evan Marshall, and the Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins. The orchestra’s concertmaster Yi-Huan Zhao and associate concertmaster Kevin Kumar will be featured soloists. Tickets for the concert are $25 at the door. Contact: 573-7787, ext. 2 or www.Stmatthews.com/musicguild. Mount St. Mary’s to Present Christmas Music Mount St. Mary’s chorus and St. Monica High School chamber singers, under the direction of Ed Archer, will present ‘Night of Silence’ on Friday, December 8, at 8 p.m. in Carondelet Center Chapel, 12001 Chalon Rd in Brentwood. The program features music from medieval times to the present and from many parts of the world, telling the story of the birth of Christ. Composers include Zoltan Kodaly, Paul Creston, Cesar Frank, Francis Poulenc, Marty Haugen and more. A $10 donation is suggested; $5 for students and seniors. Palisades Symphony to Perform Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’ Palisades Symphony and Brentwood Palisades Chorale, conducted by Joel Lish, will perform Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio,’ Parts I-IV, on Sunday, December 3, 7:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 801 Via de la Paz. Bach’s work is not actually an oratorio at all, but rather a series of cantatas originally intended to be performed on six separate days. The work seems to have been written or perhaps assembled, around the end of 1734, making use of considerable material from some of Bach’s earlier secular cantatas. The first three parts were written to be performed on the first three days of Christmas. The fourth part was intended for New Year’s Day, the fifth for the first Sunday of the New Year, and the last part for Epiphany. It is not known whether Bach put together this work for some special occasion or whether he ever performed it on one or two evenings, as is common today. The soloists are Lori Stinson, soprano, Minna Edel Halloway, mezzo, Gabriel Silva, tenor, and Eli Villanueva, bass. Susan Rosenstein will prepare the Brentwood Palisades Chorale. The performance is free of charge. Contact: 454-8040.
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