Anna Carol Dudley

Anna Carol Dudley is a singer, teacher, UC Berkeley faculty emerita, San Francisco State University lecturer emerita, and director emerita of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Baroque Music Workshop.

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Amassing For Glory - Review
February 6, 2012

Davitt MoroneyDavitt Moroney has done it again. He brought a repeat performance of Alessandro Striggio’s Mass sopra Ecco sì beato giorno to the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Written in Mantua in the 16th century, the Mass made its American premiere in 2008.

Coro Hispano: New World Epiphanies - Review
January 10, 2012

Coro HispanoCoro Hispano de San Francisco observed the Epiphany on Sunday, in a concert at Mission Dolores Basilica celebrating the appearance of the Magi on Twelfth Night. Chorus membership comes mainly from Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, but is open to anyone who wants to sing Spanish folk and classical repertoire.

All Hail Philharmonia Baroque - Review
December 5, 2011

Philharmonia Baroque OrchestraPhilharmonia Baroque, on Sunday at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, gave the world a wonderful gift — a magnificent performance of Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor. The Philharmonia Chorale was the star from beginning to end, starting with the splendid polyphonic opening Kyrie (Lord have mercy) and closing with a moving Dona nobis pacem (Give us peace).

Chalice Consort: Grant Them Rest - Review
November 8, 2011

Chalice ConsortChalice Consort observed the week of All Saints Day by singing a Requiem at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Sunday in San Francisco. Musical Director Davitt Moroney invited the audience to think, as the Requiem unfolded, about the lives of people they knew who have died.

Vivica Genaux Brings Down the House - Review
October 31, 2011

Vivica GenauxPhilharmonia Baroque brought mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux to Berkeley on Saturday, and her singing brought down the house. Her first group of arias were by Vivaldi. The second included arias by Nicola Porpora and Riccardo Broschi, written for the celebrated castrato Farinelli.

Morris' Dido Enchants Anew - Review
September 17, 2011

Splendid Songs From Northern Lights - Review
June 20, 2011

The wonderful International Orange Chorale was new to me until I heard its concert Friday. Also new to me was the venue, in downtown San Francisco, referred to as Atrium Public Space in publicity and Solarium Public Space on the program. The Chorale is amateur, in the best sense of the word — made up of excellent musicians who sing for the love of singing.

¡Viva! S.F. Girls Chorus - Review
June 13, 2011

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“Mozart, Meet Haydn” - Review
May 16, 2011

Having played all of Haydn’s string quartets for the last three years, the New Esterházy Quartet turned its attention this season to works by admirers and students of Haydn. On Friday, they played works by him, Mozart, and John Wikmanson, at St. Mark’s Parish Hall in Berkeley. The concert was the last in a series presented by Barefoot Chamber Concerts, an enterprise noted for both its quality and its informality, the eponymous feet belonging to gambists Peter Hallifax and Julie Jeffrey.

Lovely, From Dawn to Dusk - Review
May 9, 2011

The San Francisco Choral Artists, always adventuresome in their support of new music, are not resting on their laurels. Director Megan Solomon has embarked with them on a new venture, a collaboration with the Alexander String Quartet, and the result was a wonderful concert Saturday night at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco.

Sanford Sings: Inspired Musical Settings - Review
April 19, 2011

On Palm Sunday, Sanford Dole directed his eponymous Ensemble in a preview of Easter Week, at St. Gregory Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Having previously performed James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words From the Cross for Good Friday, the Sanford Dole Ensemble had commissioned from Robert Kyr an Easter Vigil, On the Third Day. The two works were presented in this concert.

Philharmonia Baroque Lights Up All Creation - Review
April 12, 2011

According to the Bible, it took God six days to create our world. It took Haydn two years to describe those days in music, with help from the biblical narrative, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and a couple of psalms. His labors (as did God’s) succeeded in a monumental achievement. Under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, the story of The Creation was told in marvelous detail by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorus and three soloists, Sunday night at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley.

Sure Singing by Chora Nova - Review
March 22, 2011

Chora Nova sang “Of Loss and Longing” in a performance of music by Felix Mendelssohn and Josef Rheinberger, Saturday night at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley. Mendelssohn was represented mainly by Psalm settings, and his music is eminently singable. His distribution of voices into various combinations is imaginative. Every part of the choir, from soprano to bass, gets gorgeous bits of melody.

Volti: Speaking of Music - Review
March 8, 2011

Volti and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir are Robert Geary’s gift to creators and performers of new choral music. Their performance Sunday afternoon at Trinity Chapel in Berkeley included five works, three of them premieres and four pieces commissioned by the choirs. Volti is made up of 20 professional singers who have chosen to vault into new music and who do it very well, indeed. And the children in the top Piedmont group, called Ensemble, are remarkably well-trained.

Magnificat’s Mass for Midnight - Review
December 20, 2010

Magnificat’s Christmas concert this year is the celebration of a midnight Mass by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Saturday night at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, the Messe de Minuit was sung by a solo quintet, accompanied by an all-star early-music band of seven players under the direction of Warren Stewart.

PBO Gives Messiah Full Glory - Review
December 6, 2010

Advent has begun; Christmas is coming. And choruses are singing George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s performance Saturday, at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, was a triumph. Music Director Nicholas McGegan’s pacing, from the very beginning, connected recitative to aria to chorus in a grand narrative sweep. The chorus and orchestra sang and played as one instrument.

The Triumph of Monteverdi’s Madrigals - Review
June 14, 2010

And the winner is ... Claudio Monteverdi! He was well-served Saturday night in a Berkeley Festival performance at that city’s First Congregational Church. ARTEK (from The Art of the Early Keyboard), a New York–based ensemble of six singers and seven players of plucked and bowed strings, gave magnificent voice to Monteverdi’s Fifth Book of Madrigals.

Cal Bach’s Engaging St. John Passion - Review
May 4, 2010

Bach’s great Passion According to Saint John was given eloquent voice by the California Bach Society Sunday afternoon at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. The Passion — the story of the end of Jesus’ life — is operatic, in the sense of combining narrative and commentary. Narrative in opera is provided by recitative, sung dialog, and some choral action.

Magnificat’s Marvelous Magnificat - Review
April 26, 2010

Claudio Monteverdi, already famous as a composer of secular music in the late 16th century, published a Mass and a vesper service in 1610. This year is the occasion for many celebrations of the 400th anniversary of that event. On Sunday afternoon, in Grace Cathedral, Magnificat celebrated.

Stellar Singing by Ian Bostridge - Review
March 23, 2010

Ian Bostridge is a master singer of German lieder, and he brought Schubert’s Winterreise to UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall Sunday afternoon, splendidly partnered by pianist Julius Drake. Experiencing Schubert’s intimate, searing song cycle would be more satisfying in the intimacy of Hertz Hall, where we last heard Bostridge. But, being smaller, Hertz holds fewer people, so what is Cal Performances to do?