Grossmont Symphony & Master Chorale
The Grossmont Symphony Orchestra & Master Chorale, under the musical direction of Randall Tweed, presents an all-Baroque concert entitled If It Ain’t Baroque, with musical works from three of the high Baroque’s greatest composers: Vivaldi, Handel and J. S. Bach. With selected musicians from the Grossmont Symphony Orchestra, the Grossmont Master Chorale opens the concert with Vivaldi’s rousing Psalm 147 “Lauda Jerusalem” for double chorus and double orchestra. Tenor Timothy Simpson then joins the orchestra with a performance of several arias from Handel’s L’Allegro, Il Penderoso et il Moderato. GSO’s concertmaster Ondrej Lewit and GSO principal oboist Michael Gaby are then featured in J. S. Bach’s Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1060R. To end the concert of great Baroque masterworks is one of J. S. Bach’s quintessential cantatas, Wachet Auf Ruft Uns die Stimme (Sleeper’s Awake) featuring soprano, Audra Nagby, baritone Michael Sokol, and tenor Timothy Simpson (previous tenor soloist at All Saints’) with the members of the orchestra and chorale.