Tactus SF presents
Spanish Music for the Day of the Dead
November 2, 2024 - Saturday, 4:00 pm
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church (3281 16th St, San Francisco, CA)
November 3, 2024 - Sunday, 4:00 pm*
St. Paul's Episcopal Church (114 Montecito Ave, Oakland, CA)
* Live stream and recording available (on sale through Sunday, November 24, 2024)Tickets Now Available Here
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The concerts will be conducted by new Tactus SF Music Director Sven Edward Olbash in his premiere appearance with the ensemble. The 24-voice a cappella ensemble will present musical settings of texts that comprise the traditional Roman Catholic Office for the Dead, a centuries-old liturgy underlying the Hispanic commemoration of El Día de los Muertos.
The music contemplates death and the afterlife in a series of powerful settings of texts from the Book of Job, the Psalms, and the Hebrew prophets. The settings, in both chant and polyphony, are by some of the greatest composers working in the major cathedrals of Hispanic Europe and the New World, including Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Fernando Franco, and Juan Vásquez.
Wine reception to follow both concerts.
Guests attending Tactus SF's concert on Saturday can park in the parking lot behind Mission Dolores. Access to the lot is from Church Street, just south of 16th Street. You can exit the lot on 16th Street. You should exit the lot by 7 pm or you may be locked out.
Tactus SF announces 2024-2025 season
Spanish Music for the Day of the Dead - Nov 2 & 3, 2024Reflect on the Day of the Dead with meditative Spanish polyphony for four, five, and six voices by Victoria, Morales, Franco, and Vasquez and Gregorian chant from the Officium Defunctorum
Palestrina 500 - Feb 28, 2025 (One night only!)Celebrate the 500th birthday of legendary Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina with a concert devoted to his sacred and secular choral works including selected madrigals and the Missa Tu es Petrus
Arise, my Love II - May 17 & 18, 2025We return to a theme from our 2017 program of motets from the biblical Song of Songs, this time in new-to-us settings in German and Latin by H. Praetorius, M. Franck, and J. Handl
Times and locations in San Francisco and East Bay to be announced. |
Welcome our new Music Director
Tactus SF is thrilled to welcome Sven Edward Olbash as our Music Director beginning with the 2024–2025 season. Sven is a specialist in music before 1600 and has an interest in the therapeutic potential of music, particularly for those dealing with grief. His album you who sow in tears will reap in joy with medieval vocal ensemble Euouae is available for streaming at euouae.bandcamp.com. As founder of Voice Science Studio, Sven helps choral and solo singers eliminate vocal limitations while developing more efficient muscular coordinations.He has been a guest conductor for San Francisco Renaissance Voices and the Gregorian Institute of Canada and has completed two Music Performance Residencies with SF Opera. As a singer, Sven has performed in recital at Old First Concerts & Center for New Music, at Other Minds Festival, and with new music ensemble Volti. He holds degrees in singing and voice pedagogy from Boston University and New England Conservatory and lives in Lower Haight with his chihuahua Tupperware.
Tactus SF performing in St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. (Photo credit: Caroline Armitage)
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