Coro Hispano de San Francisco and Conjunto Nuevo Mundo perform Nativity and Epiphany music from throughoutSpain and Latin America.

Concert Schedule:
January 8, 9, 15, 16
in Walnut Creek, Palo Alto, Berkeley and
San Francisco

As in every January since 1987, Coro brings the Bay Area a celebration in song for Día de los Reyes (Epiphany) and the feast days surrounding it stretching from La Noche Buena to Candelaria.

Concert Schedule:
January 9-11
in Palo Alto, Berkeley and San Francisco

Join us for the fourth concert in our annual ¡Fandango! series, as Coro Hispano de San Francisco, Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, Cascada de Flores, and dancers from Los Lupeños de San José perform songs and dances of Hispano-Mexican California.

Concert Schedule:
Friday, June 25th
at the San Francisco Presidio
free to the public courtesy of the Presidio Trust

Join us as Coro Hispano de San Francisco takes part in the celebration of the 228th Anniversary of the first Mass is San Francisco, near the very site where Mission Dolores was later built.

Schedule of Events:
Saturday, June 26th in San Francisco
at the historical Old Mission Dolores

La Epifanía del Mesias, 2002: Music from the Spanish-speaking world in celebration of the the feasts of the Nativity cycle

Celebrating all the festivals of the Nativity cyle, this concert included music from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, from Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

¡Fandango III! The Hispano-Mexican Heritage of Alta California in Song and Dance

Once again, Coro Hispano de San Francisco, Conjunto Nuevo Mundo and Los Lupeños de San José performed songs and dances from the folk repertory of Hispano-Mexican early California.

Schedule of Events:
Friday, June 27th
in the San Francisco Presidio
Officer's Club

La Epifanía del Señor: Luz que ilumina al mundo entero

Coro Hispano de San Francisco and Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, together with the Afro-Peruvian Dance Troupe Jaran—n y Bochinche banded together to bring Afro-hispanic music composed for the Nativity cycle dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries to our annual Día de los Reyes celebration.

Highlights included music from the Latin American High Baroque, including Juan de Araujo's Los Coflades de la Estleya, Juan Gutierrez de Padilla's A Siolo Flasiquiyo, as well as aguinaldos from the Caribbean, villancicos from Spain and choral works from Africa.

Schedule of Events:
January 5-6, 11-13 in San José, San Rafael,
Menlo Park, Berkeley and San Francisco

¡Fandango II! Songs & Dances from Mexican California

With this concert, part of an ongoing series, Coro Hispano de San Francisco, Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, Los Centzontles and guest artist Enrique Ramirez continued the Spanish and Mexican Alta California tradition of music from Sunday tardeadas.

These songs and dances survived in oral tradition among Californio descendants. Our repertory stems from the work of ethnomusicologists who gathered this treasure of heritage in the early 20th century, especially the songs recorded by Charles Lummis and the dances and melodies notated by Lucille Czernowski.

Schedule of Events:
June 26th, San Francisco Presidio
free to the public courtesy of the Presidio Trust

June 29th, St. Anthony of Padua, Menlo Park

June 30, San Pablo
part of Quermez del Día de San Pablo
presented by Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
free to the public

Watershed: Sacred Music Before and After the Council

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, Coro Hispano de California and Conjunto Nuevo Mundo presented three settings of the Mass: the Misa al Tercer Tono for five voices a capella by the Late Renaissance Mexican maestro Juan de Lienas; the Misa Encarnación for solo voices, chorus, strings, and continuo by an unnamed composer in the Jesuit Missions of Bolivia; and Ariel Ramírez' Misa Criolla for solo voicesand ensemble of native Andean instruments.

Schedule of Events:
October 2002

Concierto del Día de los Reyes

Coro Hispano de San Francisco and Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, together with the Jacqueline Rago Ensemble de La Peña, performed the 14th in our annual series of Ephiphany concerts.

Highlights included a Three Kings responsory from Juan Gutierrez de Padilla's 1658 set, Peruvian shepherd song from the highlands of Ayacucho with haunting flutes and drums, Francisco Lopez y Capilla's Magnificat for the feast of Epiphany, folk carols from the Caribbean, and aguinaldos, parrandas, and gaitas from Venezuela.

Schedule of Events:
January 2001

¡Fandango! Music and Dance of Early California

Coro Hispano de San Francisco and Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, together with the Afro-Peruvian Dance Troupe Jaran—n y Bochinche banded together to bring African-influenced Iberian music dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries to our annual Día de los Reyes celebration.

Highlights included Los Coflades de la Estleya, A Siolo Flasiquiyo, Toca la Flauta, Keresimesi Odun De O, and Cantándote un Son. Guest artist Dr. Helen Dilworth joined Conjunto Nuevo Mundo artists Mimi Ruiz, Brenda Bonhomme, Jilian Picazo, Martha Rodr’guez Salazar, Marcos Ram—n Hernandez, Patricio Thomas and Raymond Alexander Mart’nez.

Schedule of Events:
June 3rd, St. Gregory Nyssen Spring Music Festival, San Francisco

June 30, San Francisco Officer's Club
free to the public courtesy of the Presidio Trust

July 1, Vallejo Historical Museum
free to the public courtesy Vallejo Community Arts Foundation

Musica Festiva de las Catedrales de Mexico
Durante la Época Misionera en California: 1765-1825

Coro Hispano de San Francisco and Conjunto Nuevo Mundo performed music of the Mexican High Classic, written for solo voices, chorus and orchestra.

Highlights included the Cantico del Alba, followed by the polychoral Mass in D attributed to Ignacio Jerusalem y Stella. This work bridges the worlds of the elaborate music of the cathedral tradition and the simpler fare of frontier mission bands and choirs. It is one of the four such masses found in the California Mission archives.

Schedule of Events:
October 26th, San Francisco