Please join us for our annual summer solstice celebration Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Concert to Celebrate the Solstice at Chapel of the Chimes, a labyrinthine Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum replete with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights.
Sunday, June 21 from 5 to 9 pm
4499 Piedmont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94611
Described by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman as “a walk-through fun house of musical and visual splendor,”the concert features simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music, installations, and interactive events; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
Admission is $15 general, $10 students and seniors, $5 kids under twelve.
Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com
For a complete list of performers and more information, visit www.gardenofmemory.com
Guests are invited to walk through the multilevel maze of internal gardens, cloisters, alcoves, stairwells, fountains and other architectural elements, which rise into vaulted ceilings. The facility’s numerous chapels, columbaria, and mausoleum areas are adorned with antiquities that date back to the 16th century. All architectural and garden areas have excellent acoustics and are illuminated by gentle natural light, often through beautiful arrangements of stained glass.
Garden of Memory offers a unique and personal musical experience to every listener as he or she wanders freely through this multilevel maze of interior gardens, alcoves, pools, and antechambers ingeniously designed by Julia Morgan. Drawing crowds of over a thousand people each year (including a large number of children), Garden of Memory has become a favorite summer solstice celebration for Bay Area audiences. Chapel of the Chimes, the largest above-ground cemetery west of the Mississippi, started out as a street car station and became the California Memorial Crematorium and Columbarium in 1909. The property was expanded and transformed by Julia Morgan and later, Aaron Green – a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright. The lobby and hallways feature artwork by Diego Rivera, a marble table top from the Medici family crest and a page from the Gutenberg Bible.
Tickets are available through www.brownpapertickets.com. Listeners are advised to either carpool or come by public transportation, as parking is very limited.
WEBSITE: www.gardenofmemory.com
ADMISSION: $15 general, $10 students and seniors
ADVANCE TICKETS: www.brownpapertickets.com
Hello friends!
I am releasing two new CDs. They are called Musical Incense (Vol. 1&2), and are a collaboration with fellow musician Darren Gibbs. The CDs consist of musical duets of Hang and guitar.
This CD series is what many of you have been asking for since the release of 'Hang: a Collection of Works'. An ambience, a feeling, a mood, a sonic tapestry, an atmosphere that doesn't demand attention. The sounds drift in and out of awareness, like the scent of nearby flowers...
This project will be presented at the Chapel of the Chimes for the Garden of Memory event listed below. Join us this Solstice to discover these new sounds and purchase the CDs. After this celebration, these CDs will be available online.
I hope to celebrate this joy with you all!
Laura Inserra
