San Francisco Girls Chorus

American Bach Choir

GLORIA
A Baroque Christmas with ABS
with the
Mary Wilson, soprano
San Francisco Girls Chorus
and the American Bach Choir

Vivaldi: Gloria
Handel: Laudate pueri Dominum
Corelli: "Christmas Concerto"
Charpentier: In Nativitatem

The beautiful, candle-lit venue of St. Stephen's Church in Belvedere—home to ABS for more than two decades and known for its clear and rich acoustics—will resonate with the voices of the five-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus and the acclaimed American Bach Choir in a program of Christmas treasures from the Baroque. Vivaldi's inimitable Gloria and Handel's joyful setting of the psalm Laudate pueri Dominum, composed during Handel's early years in Rome, will complement the favorite "Christmas Concerto" by Arcangelo Corelli, the most famous and successful violinist-composer of 18th-century Italy. A set of charming French noels and a pastorale about the shepherds at the Nativity by the Parisian composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier make this a wonderful program for the whole family.