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Wishing you a Happy Chinese New Year. 2021. From all of us at The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and Sunset Music and Arts #ChineseNewYear #newyear #newyear2021 #gongheifatchoi #episcopal #EpiscopalChurch #episcopalian #anglican #anglicanchurch #AnglicanCommunion

Incarnation Radio Hour presents an abridged version of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion - a comedy about love and the English class system. Wednesday February 10 at 4 p.m. PST To register for free online admission visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/george-bernard-shaws-pygmalion

Jan 24: Celebrating Mozart's 265th birthday anniversary. Still discovering the master's work: A newly discovered piano piece by Mozart is due to be performed at Salzburg’s Mozarteum Foundation, to mark the composer’s 265th birthday this year.... Pianist Seong-Jin Cho will give the world premiere performance of Mozart’s ‘Allegro in D’ which was unearthed in 2018 at the start of 2021 Mozartwoche Festival this month. https://www.classicfm.com//newly-discovered-piano-piece-p/ In the meantime the sublime Dame Mitsuko Uchida conducts and performs Mozart's piano concerto in D minor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwOt9XOg-n0 #Mozart #WolfgangAmadeusMozart #anniversary

Incarnation Radio Hour presents Oscar Wilde's 'The Canterville Ghost.' Date & Time: Wednesday November 11, 2020 at 4 p.m. PDT Please e-mail [email protected] for zoom call details. Join us!... The Canterville Ghost in real life committed a terrible crime he killed his wife because she was plain and a bad housekeeper. He was punished for it by his wife’s brothers, who locked him up in a room to starve to death. And yet, the story of the Canterville Ghost is largely a comedy.The ghost has successfully haunted Canterville Chase for hundreds of years, but the Otis family from America prove too much for him, with their practical solutions to all ghostly manifestations, and the terrible twins who torment him until all he dares to do is creep around the house as quietly as possible, instead of wailing and rattling his chains. Finally the ghost confesses his problems to the girl of the family, Virginia, and she helps him to find eternal rest.

Incarnation Radio Hour presents Stephen Vincent Benét's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" Date and Time: Wednesday October 14, 4 p.m. Pacific time. For the zoom call details please e-mail [email protected]... Free to attend! This is a short story by Steven Vincent Benét about a New Hampshire farmer who sold his soul to the devil in return for seven years of good crops. When the devil came to collect, the farmer called on Daniel Webster, who was born in New Hampshire but was Senator from Massachusetts and one of the greatest orators in American history, to save him. It’s a wonderful story with some good things to say about what it means to be an American - a useful story to hear just before an election. Here’s a sample of Webster’s oratory, a speech he made in the Senate that was once often memorized by schoolchildren, that may still have some relevance. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first and Union afterwards; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all it sample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heartLiberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable! #radio #radioPlay #reading #stephenvicentbenet #thedevilanddaniel #thedevilanddanielwebster

Incarnation Radio Hour with a double-bill - "Remember Caesar" by Gordon Daviot and "Yesterday" by Colin Clements. Date & Time: Zoom call on Wednesday Sept 9 at 4 p.m. PST. To join the call please request call details by sending an e-mail to [email protected].

Program Notes #2 for Incarnation's Radio Hour on Sept 9 at 4 p.m. PST Colin Campbell Clements was born on 25 February, 1894, the son of William George and Ada von Swanback Clements. His father, who had emigrated from England around 1885, worked at the Omaha stockyards as a cattle driver. In 1917 Clements graduated with an Artium Baccalaureatus (A.B.) Degree from the University of Washington. The following year he attended classes at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pit...tsburgh. Before enlisting in the US Army in 1918, Clements worked as a play reader, actor and stage manager for Stuart Walker's Portmanteau Theater. Clements published his first book, "The Touchstone and Other Plays", in 1919, followed by "Seven Plays of Old Japan" in 1920. An example of some of the other books he wrote during this period of his career are: "Jo-a Drama" (1922), "A Book of Prayers for Boys" (1922), "Plays for a Folding Theater" (1923), "Plays for Pagans" (1924) and in collaboration with Mary Heaton Vorse, "Wreckage" (1924). Clements met Florence Ryerson in 1927 while he was directing a play at a small theater in Santa Barbara, California. Florence Ryerson (September 20, 1892 June 8, 1965) was a playwright, screenwriter, and co-author of the script for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. When the couple married the following year they almost immediately began working as a team. By 1945 they had churned out, eight novels, over 100 short stories (six that were serialized in magazines), three books of monologues and in excesses of 50 plays and screenplays. Their most popular works were probably "June Mad" (1939), "Glamour Preferred" (1941) "Harriet" (1943), "Notorious Gentleman" (1945) and "Strange Bedfellows" (1948). Colin Campbell Clements died on 29 January, 1948, after a three week stay at Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His wife and partner of nearly 21 years was at his bedside. #colinclements #playwright #play #radiohour

Program Notes #1 for Incarnation's Radio Hour on Sept 9 at 4 p.m. PST Gordon Daviot: pseudonym for Elizabeth Mackintosh MACKINTOSH, ELIZABETH [pseuds. JOSEPHINE TEY, GORDON DAVIOT] (1896-1952), novelist and playwright, was born in Inverness on 25th July 1896. She had two younger sisters, Jane Ellis (known as Jean) and Mary Henrietta (known as Etta and later on as Moire). The three girls were the daughters of Colin MacKintosh (born 1862/63, Applecross, Ross & Cromarty - died ...25/9/1950 Inverness), a fruiterer, and his wife, Josephine Horne Mackintosh, a former teacher (born 29th January, 1871- died 24th June, 1923, Inverness, Scotland). Josephine Tey (known as 'Beth' to her immediate family) was the pseudonym under which Miss Mackintosh published mystery novels. Miss Mackintosh used a second pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, for plays and also in her personal life, which she guarded jealously. For simplicity's sake Miss Mackintosh will be referred to by her pseudonym of 'Josephine Tey'. Tey avoided the press, shunned photographers, and never granted interviews. For this reason, and the fact that she kept a small circle of friends, Tey is a difficult subject for biographers. Tey started writing almost as soon as she could walk, according to a note from her literary agent, which also states that "writing was always her greatest amusement." She published short stories and poems during the late 1920s in Scottish newspapers and in the English Review. Tey's first detective novel was The Man in the Queue and was dedicated 'To Brisena, who actually wrote it'. Brisena was a nickname she gave to her typewriter, possibly inspired by the British racehorse of the same name who was racing in the 1920s. It was a highly accomplished piece of work for a beginner. Gaining second prize in the Dutton Mystery Competition (which was won by N.A. Temple-Ellis's The Inconsistent Villains), it was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot., Daviot being the name of a district just outside Inverness where her family had frequently spent their holidays. For her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey. Josephine Tey, which combines her mother's name with the surname of an English grandparent from Suffolk was first used in 1937 for Tey's second mystery, A Shilling for Candles. All of her subsequent mystery novels were written as Tey. #JosephineTey #gordonDaviot #play #mysteryWriter #radioHour

Dear friends and patrons of Sunset Music and Arts, It is with a heavy heart that we regret to inform you of the painful decision to cancel all remaining concerts in our 2020 calendar season. Based on the latest guidance from the City of San Francisco, concert venues still do not have a firm reopening date. The health and safety of you, the audience, and our performers, are of the utmost concern, and we will resume just a soon as it is safe to do. Please continue to follow cit...y and state guidelines for social distancing and stay safe and healthy. Hopefully, this will help us to get back to our normal way of life soon. Thank you for your continued support and look forward to welcoming you soon. We are planning our 2021 season and details of the season will be published soon. We pray and hope that San Francisco, California, the country, and the world will have turned a corner by the end of this year. Sunset Music and Arts & Incarnation Episcopal Church #concert #liveMusic #classicalMusic #Jazz #vocalMusic #ChamberMusic #instrumentalmusic

Please join us for our next monthly radio hour on Wednesday September 9 at 4 p.m. The program will feature two plays - Remember Caesar by Gordon Daviot and Yesterday by Colin Campbell Clements. Date & Time: Zoom call on Wednesday September 9, 4 p.m. Pacific Daylight For details on the zoom call, please e-mail [email protected]... Josephine Tey, pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh, (born 1897, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scot.died Feb. 13, 1952, London, Eng.), Scottish playwright and author of popular detective novels praised for their warm and readable style. A physical education teacher for eight years, Tey became a full-time writer with the successful publication of her first book, The Man in the Queue (1929). She wrote some novels and the majority of her plays under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. Among the plays is Richard of Bordeaux (produced 1933), a stage success in London and New York. (Source: britannica.com) Colin Campbell Clements: Playwright and Broadway Actor known for his Broadway play Harriet which starred actress Helen Hayes as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clements was born and educated in Omaha, Nebraska. Many of his stories and plays were co-written with his wife, Florence Ryerson. Clements and Ryerson would periodically mail copies of his plays to South High School in Omaha asking the school to produce one of his plays. (Source: nebraskaauthors.org)

Dear friends and patrons of Sunset Music and Arts, We regret to inform you of the painful decision to cancel all concerts through September. Based on the latest guidance from the City of San Francisco, concert venues are part of Phase 4 ‘Reopening of San Francisco’ plan, which as of June 1, has an opening date as Date unknown. The health and safety of you, the audience, and our performers, are of the utmost concern, and we will resume just a soon as it is safe to do. Please... continue to follow city and state guidelines for social distancing and stay safe and healthy. Hopefully, this will help us to get back to our normal way of life soon. Thank you for your continued support and look forward to welcoming you soon. Sunset Music and Arts & Incarnation Episcopal Church Visit https://susetarts.wordpress.com for details.

All May June concerts are canceled Updated: May 1, 2020 Dear friends and patrons of Sunset Music and Arts,... We are closely monitoring the Covid-19 health crisis in San Francisco and are following all city and state mandated guidelines for the shelter-in-place shutdown. In addition, we are also reviewing all the recommended health and safety guidelines. Therefore, in compliance with the order of the California State Public Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health we are canceling all our concerts through June 30. As the situation changes on a daily basis, we will update the public on any changes to our concert schedules. We will be working with the performers to reschedule their concerts for later in the year or be part of our 2021 season. We are closely monitoring the situation in making any further changes. The health and safety of you the audience and our performers are of the utmost concern. Please visit our website https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com for further updates. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please stay safe and healthy. We can fight this together and get back to our normal way of life soon. Thank you Sunset Music and Arts & Incarnation Episcopal Church

Dear Friends, performers, patrons, and supporters, We hope that all of you are safe and healthy, as we all navigate the current Covid-19 health crisis in the United States and in the San Francisco Bay Area. We at The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and Sunset Music and Arts are working closely with the Episcopal Diocese of California, Supervisor Gordon Mar , and the city of San Francisco, California, U.S.A to monitor and follow the health and safety guidelines of San... Francisco and the State of California. In an abundance of caution, at this time, we are cancelling all concerts through the end of May. This allows our performers to also adjust travel plans and make arrangements for any reimbursements. While the performers are disappointed that they will not be able to perform as planned, almost all the performers are looking to perform with us, either later this year or in our 2021 season. We did discuss the potential of live streaming concerts, but disbanded the idea as this activity would not be considered an essential activity and therefore violate SF city and state orders. This is an extremely difficult time for the arts, arts organizations, and performers - as it is for all of us. We hope that the health crisis would be resolved soon and that we will be able to get back to the work of bringing great live music to San Francisco. If you are able to financially support us during these times, please consider making a donation. You can donate by writing a check made payable to The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and write ‘Sunset Music and Arts’ on the memo line of your check. Please mail your check to: Episcopal Church of the Incarnation 1750 29th Avenue San Francisco CA 94122 You can also donate via PayPal - https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com/donate/ Thank you for your consideration and supporting us! Be Safe, Stay Home, and Save Lives! #Covid19 #Coronavirus #EpiscopalChurch #Episcopal #Anglican #AnglicanCommunion #LiveMusic #Arts #ClassicalMusic San Francisco, California Sunset District, San Francisco Inner Sunset Outer Sunset, San Francisco, California