# Paul Jacobs & Christine Brewer at Davies Symphony Hall, October 18, 2015

[San Francisco Symphony](http://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2015-2016/Paul-Jacobs-with-soprano-Christine-Brewer.aspx) presents [Paul Jacobs](http://www.pauljacobsorgan.com/) with [Christine Brewer](http://www.christinebrewer.com/)  
2015-10-18  
[Davies Symphony Hall](http://www.sfsymphony.org)  
[201 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=201+Van+Ness,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en)  
7:00 PM, Sunday, October 18, 2015

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## One Set

[7:00 PM lights down, announcements]

01. [7:01 PM] Bach: Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29, _Wir danken dir, Gott_
02. [7:06 PM] Bach: _Bist du bei mir_
03. [7:12 PM] Handel: _But, Oh What Art Can Teach_ from _Ode for St. Cecilia's Day_
04. [7:15 PM] Franck: _Panis Angelicus_
05. [7:21 PM] N. Boulanger: Trois Pièces for Organ
06. [7:31 PM] L. Boulanger: Pie Jesu
07. [7:35 PM] Puccini: Salve Regina
08. [7:41 PM] Reger: Toccata and Fugue
09. [7:52 PM] Reger (arr. Wolf): _Nun wandre, Maria_
10. [7:m PM] Reger (arr. Wolf): _Führ mich, Kind, nach Bethlehem!_
11. [7:m PM] Reger (arr. Wolf): _Gebet_
12. [8:01 PM] Bach (arr. Gounod): _Ave Maria_
13. [8:04 PM] Gounod: _O Divine Redeemer_
14. [8:10 PM] Widor: Toccata from Symphony No. 5  
[set ends 8:16 PM]  
   
**Encore**
15. [8:17 PM] Schubert: _Ave Maria_  
[show ends 8:20 PM]


## Performers

* [Christine Brewer](http://www.christinebrewer.com/): soprano vox;
* [Paul Jacobs](http://www.pauljacobsorgan.com/): organ.

## Notes

I was surprised to arrive in San Francisco tonight to find the city draped in a thick, drippy fog. Awesome! We need moisture any way we can get it -- but slow and drippy is especially good for the natives that like it that way. Like me! So I sat in the car and snarfled my dinner sandwich with a bottle of ginger kombucha, then shuffled up the block to Davies and settled into my seat. Up until the last moment before showtime I thought I was going to enjoy the happy bonus arm room of an empty seat on my right, but an overly enthusiastic German-American organist settled in at the last minute with a hearty "Guden Tag!" and proceeded to try and chit-chat throughout the show. Sigh. At least she didn't talk much _during_ the performance!

I was entirely unfamiliar with tonight's repertoire -- duets for soprano and pipe organ? Guess I didn't get to attend _those_ sort of church services growing up in sunny southern California. Singing along to _Godspell_ and _Kumbaya_ on acoustic guitars under the old oak trees in the garden was a little more typical of my musical church experience!

So these tunes were new and interesting, and for the most part, pretty good stuff. Hard to say whether I liked the interstitial solo organ performances better or worse than the duo sets. Jacobs certainly likes to rave it up on the organ, so the solo stuff has that plus, but Brewer sang like an angel throughout the night. Guess I'll call it a tie! Good show!
  
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