CORONA DEL MAR - Baroque Music Festival June 17- 24, 2012

 The Baroque Music Festival presents five concerts over eight days in June. Founded in 1981, this Orange County music festival strives for historically stylistic interpretations of the great masterpieces of the Baroque period. Thus you will hear music by Baroque composers much as it was heard in their time. Singers and instrumentalists attempt to remain true to style, with use of  period instruments that are either antique or modern reproductions to make the sound and experience as close to the original as possible. Mixed in are a few later neo-Baroque works. Prices are around $15 - 50 for tickets. 

The festival began when Irmeli and Bud Desenberg lamented the dearth of classical music events in Corona del Mar and Newport Beach. Except for a few Orange County Philharmonic Society concerts, residents had to drive to Los Angeles or San Diego to hear Baroque concerts.

Sherman Library & Gardens hosted the first concert. Then  Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church  consented to use their venue which included a fine pipe organ. The inaugural series, 17–21 June 1981, opened on Wednesday at Sherman Gardens' Central Patio Room

Past venues have included:

Newport Harbor Lutheran Church 798 Dover Drive Newport Beach, CA 92663 (949) 548-3631

Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church 3233 Pacific View Drive Corona del Mar, CA 92625 (949) 644-0463

 Sherman Library & Gardens 2645 East Coast Highway Corona del Mar, CA 92625 (949) 673-2261