The Gospel Choir concert is free, and as you know if you've heard this gifted and enthusiastic group, their rhythmic singing will lift your spirits and make your day joyous. Another kind of musical joyousness highlights the next day, Thursday, January 21, also in Cole Hall , when the delightful Chancellor's Concert Series continues with a lovely work by the French master Maurice Ravel, an Impressionist painter in sound.
Concerts are free.
Cole Hall doors open at 12 noon for seating and brown bag lunch. While living in Paris for five years and teaching at the Sorbonne, Suzanne Leon was concertmaster of both the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Orchestre Internationale de Paris. She performs frequently in a violin duo with sister Kelly Leon-Pearce, both members of the SF Symphony since l990. Tanya Tomkins has performed extensively throughout Europe, primarily as a chamber musician. As a member of the Euridice Quartet, she has recorded the quartets of Ravel and Debussy for Vanguard Classics.