Saturday February 14, UCSC Recital Hall, Santa Cruz.

A Valentine's Day offering of Renaissance and Baroque works celebrating birds as emblems of attraction, affection, and (especially!) romance.

II.Classical Cats
Featuring Patrice Maginnis, soprano with Lux Musica Ensemble and guest artists.

Saturday March 21, UCSC Recital Hall, Santa Cruz.

Five centuries of music celebrating the feline eternal. Fine art music by Scarlatti, Forqueray, Satie, Bach and Britten contrast with high-spirited catches, rounds and arias.
 

 III. The Sea of Harmony
Judith Nelson, soprano with Festival artists Leta Miller and Lars Johannesson, Baroque Flutes, and Linda Burman-Hall, keyboards.

Saturday April 18, First Congregational Church, Santa Cruz.

Water music! A portrait of the many moods of the ocean and its creatures, from French Baroque sea myths to Satie's timeless 'underwater' piano works.
 

 IV. The Circus Concert: Parades, Acrobats & Beasts
Linda Burman-Hall, harpsichord with members of Lux Musica and guest artists

Saturday May 2, Loudon Nelson, Santa Cruz

Comical and whimsical Renaissance and Baroque music for violin, viol and harpsichord, including parades and snapshots of animals and entertainers, pieces for three-hands keyboard and four hands viol, and comic slight-of-hand for instrumentalists and jugglers.
 

 V. Canaries, Cuckoos and Chickens
Vocal soloist , and Linda Burman-Hall, organ and harpsichord with the Festival Baroque Orchestra.
Friday May 22, UCSC Recital Hall, Santa Cruz

Presenting the poignant ‘Canary Cantata’, keyboard works and a concerto based on the call of the trickster cuckoo, (who lays her own eggs in the nest of another) and a wealth of short works from four centuries celebrating everyone’s favorite barnyard fowl.