Welcome!

Welcome to the website of the Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar, California. Founded in 1981, the Festival will celebrate its 28th season this year with five concerts over eight days, June 15-22, 2008.

When you come to the Festival, please enjoy our lovely venues, the Parish Church of Saint Michael and All Angels and the Sherman Library and Gardens, and linger after the concerts to meet our performers and to socialize with each other over wines and waters.

Most of the longtime members of our professional chorus and orchestra are returning, and you will hear several of your favorite soloists, joined this year by a new young countertenor and baritone.

We continue to strive for historically stylistic interpretations of the great masterpieces of the Baroque period — and a few later neo-Baroque works — and are blessed by singers and instrumentalists who are informed and sensitive to that style, the latter playing period instruments that are either antique or modern reproductions. Thus you will hear music by Bach, Handel, Buxtehude and others much as it was heard in their time.

You are encouraged to keep your printed programs, to read the notes, and to appreciate the Commercial Sponsors who have advertised with us by thanking them for their generosity when you patronize their establishments. To them, to you, to all of our contributors listed in the program, and to the Arts Commission of the City of Newport Beach we express our gratitude for continuing support of the artistic life of this community.

— Festival Board of Directors

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