Oct. 29 - 30

Organization: Clerestory
Venue: St. Dominic&#039;s Church
City: San Francisco
Date: Sat October 29, 2011 8:00pm
Price Range: $10-20

Clerestory: The Cathedral and the Lady

The men's choir Clerestory, originally a splinter group from Chanticleer, is one of the less-known Bay Area treasures. SFCV has been following it for a few years and the reviews have been uniformly excellent. If you've never looked in on them, here is a wonderful-sounding program about the music of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, presented in conjunction with Humanities West's seminar weekend, “The Soul of Medieval Paris.” It begins with the 12th-century magic of Perotin, high medieval culture in full flower, and continues through to the 20th century and works by Francis Poulenc and Arvo Pärt.

Michael Zwiebach is the senior editor/ content manager for SFCV. He assigns all articles and content, manages the writing staff and does editing. A member of SFCV from the beginning, Michael holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley.