A note from S.F. Bach Choir Artistic Director Magen Solomon:
As we prepare the final concert for this season, "Love, Loss and Landscape," I have been thinking, as have we all, about the terrible earthquake disaster in Nepal. The intersection between our lives, in an earthquake-prone city, the thousands of dead, injured, and homeless Nepalese, and our concert theme was striking and inescapable. Suddenly, "Love, Loss and Landscape" took on a terrible, immediate, and tangible reality.
Given this confluence I felt that our sublime good fortune — to be safe, healthy and making music — gave us an opportunity to do something useful and meaningful in the face of this tragedy. We have decided to turn our May 10th performance into a benefit concert for Nepal.
We also encourage audience members to donate to Save the Children, an organization with uniformly high charity rating scores, working continuously in Nepal since 1976, and currently soliciting matching funds for a $1 million grant.
The program will close the choir's 79th season with a program of songs about love, loss, and the natural world, including Brahms' Neue Liebeslieder waltzes and Bartok's Slovak Songs, in addition to contemporary folk songs, and works by Mendelssohn, Fauré, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky.
You can find more information about the performance here.