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2015 Mendocinio Music Festival

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The Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus performing the Brahms "German Requeim" with 220 people on stage and 800 in the house, concluding the 2015 festival.

The central core of the MMF Orchestra and Chorus

Soprano soloist Angela Cadelago in the Brahms Requiem

Baritone Soloist Torlef Borsting and Maestro Allan Pollack

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Panorama view of the full MMF Orchestra and Chorus performing the Brahms "German Requeim" with 220 people on stage and 800 in the house.

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Piano soloist Spencer Myer acknowledges welcoming applause

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Panoramic view of Mendocino across Mendocino Bay. The music festival's big top tent has been a landmark every July since 1986.

A 2015 view across the mouth of Big River of the Mendocino Music Festival's 800 seat concert hall tent.

Young Musicians Choral Orchestra group in Mendocino, California

YMCO singers with bouquets

Priscillia Alva

Priscillia Alva

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Samuel Nordrum, Director of Operations & Administration at YMCO, introduces the program.

Preston Hall was the venue for the Young Musicians Choral Orchestra concert during the Mendocino Music Festival 2015.

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Panoramic view of the MMF orchestra. There's another higher resolution version of this image in this album.

The Mendocino Music Festival Symphony Orchestra in performance during their second concert of the 2015 season.

The core of the MMF orchestra with Maestro Allan Pollack

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Jeremiah Smith, Cristina von Stade and Melissa Angulo are joined by Maestro Allan Pollack at the end of the Arias From Mozart Operas program.

Jeremiah Smith, Cristina von Stade and Melissa Angulo take a bow.

As the aria ends, Frederica von Stade and Melissa Angulo surprise the auddience by revealing that the picture they were holding is one of Maestro Allan Pollack (by Nicholas Wilson).

Frederica von Stade and Melissa Angulo sang a duet aria praising their men from Cosi fan tutte.

Frederica von Stade sang an aria from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Orchestra Concert No. 2, July 22

Frederica von Stade sang an aria from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Orchestra Concert No. 2, July 22

Soprano Melissa Angulo sang an aria from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte during Festival Orchestra No. 2, July 22.

Frederica von Stade and music student Jeremiah Smith sang an aria from Marriage of Figaro in Orchestra Concert No. 2, July 22

Principal cellist Stephen Harrison and Marcia Sloane

Vocalist Amy Sacko

Ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate performed West African music from Mali.

Ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate performed West African music from Mali.

Ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate performed West African music from Mali.

Percussionist with Massekou Kouyate

Talking drum player with Bassekou Kouyate.

Ngoni (traditional lute) players with Bassekou Kouyate.

Ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate performed West African music from Mali.

Bassekou Kouyate performed West African music from Mali.

Volunteer Obe Brown with an armload of programs and a fistful of dollars outside the concert tent

The Festival Chamber Players performing Mozart's Viola Quintet

Principal Violinist Roy Malan during intermission

Violinist Rick Shinozaki during intermission

Cellist Stephen Harrison during intermission

The Festival Chamber Players wind octet

The Festival Chamber Players wind octet performing Mozart's Serenade for Winds

Mozart At Court And Outdoors chamber concert in the Mendocino Presbyterian Church sanctuary.

The Festival Chamber Players wind octet performing Mozart's Serenade for Winds

Balcony view inside the Mendocino Presbyterian Church

Susan Waterfall introduces the Mozart At Court program of chamber music inside the Mendocino Presbyterian Church.

Susan Waterfall introduces the Mozart At Court program of chamber music inside the Mendocino Presbyterian Church.

The MMF's 800 seat concert hall tent at twilight.

Twilight panorama of the Music Festival's tent concert hall during intermission

Bob Winn lectures on Mozart's history

Punchmeister Michael Issel with a bowl of his special Mozart punch at the refreshment tent.

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Serving up the very special punch

Vocalists Eugene Brancoveanu, Youn Ryu, Adina Dorband and Igor Vieira in Mozart In Mendocino

Igor Vieira in Mozart In Mendocino

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Eugene Brancoveanu in Mozart In Mendocino

Adina Dorband, soprano, in Mozart In Mendocino

Susan Waterfall at the piano in Mozart In Mendocino

Susan Waterfall at the lectern in Mozart In Mendocino with vocalists

Susan Waterfall in Mozart In Mendocino

Kathleen Grace and Julian Pollack received a standing ovation for the encore.

Kathleen Grace did an encore with Julian Pollack at the piano.

Kathleen Grace did an encore with Julian Pollack at the piano.

Kathleen Grace did an encore with Julian Pollack at the piano.

Kathleen Grace with bouquet

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Allan Pollack and Kathleen Grace take a bow

Kathleen Grace with the MMF Big Band rhythm section and Julian Pollack.

Allan Pollack on sax

Allan Pollack on sax

Allan Pollack on sax

Dave Scott trumpet soloist

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The MMF Big Band with vocalist Kathleen Grace

The MMF Big Band with vocalist Kathleen Grace

Vocalist Kathleen Grace with the Festival Big Band.

Francis Vanek solos with the MMF Big Band

Left wing of the MMF Big Band with Ray Scott, Julian Pollack, Alex Baum, and Ralph Humphrey

The MMF Big Band

MMF Big Band leader Allan Pollack

Final bow, with flowers, for The Barber of Seville.

Maestro Allan Pollack joins the cast of The Barber of Seville to acknowledge a standing ovation.

The grand finale of The Barber of Seville.

Figaro's schemes succeed and Count Almaviva and Rosina are wed

Soprano Nikki Einfeld as Rosina in The Barber of Seville

A comic scene from The Barber of Seville

Figaro, the barber, prepares to shave Dr. Bartolo.

Basilio, the real music teacher, checks his tongue in a mirror after the count (disguised) bribes him to play sick.

Scene from The Barber of Seville with Nikki Einfeld and Igor Vieira as the doctor plots to marry his ward himself

Rosina's music lesson (Chester Pidduck, tenor, and Nikki Einfeld, soprano)

The substitue music teacher, Count Almaviva in a new disguise, and Dr. Bartolo

Don Basilio (Dennis Rupp) and Dr. Bartolo (Igor Vieira) in a dramatic scene from The Barber of Seville

The Officer (James Russell) remains frozen in shock for several minutes as the opera continues around him

Adina Dorband and Nikki Einfeld in a scene from The Barber of Seville

The Officer (James Russell) summoned by Dr. Bartolo to remove the wounded soldier is frozen in shock after realizing the solder is Count Almaviva in disguise.

Count Almaviva in disguise, with Figaro the barber

Scene from The Barber of Seville

Count Almaviva has disguised himself as a wounded soldier to gain entrance to Dr. Bartolo's house. The doctor reads a long letter of exemption from having soldiers billeted in his house.

Dr. Bartolo confronts his ward Rosina.

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Basilio (Dennis Rupp) with Dr. Bartolo (Igor Vieira

Basilio (Dennis Rupp), Rosina's music teacher with Dr. Bartolo (Igor Vieira)

Dr. Bartolo (Igor Vieira) Rosina's guardian in The Barber of Seville

Nikki Einfeld as Rosina, young ward of Dr. Bartolo

Nikki Einfeld as Rosina in The Barber of Seville.

The Barber of Seville, Figaro, played by Eugene Brancoveanu.

Count Almaviva (Chester Pidduck) and Figaro the barber (Eugene Brancoveanu) in The Barber of Seville

Door Captain Toby Wade dressed up for a night at the opera in the big white tent.

This group of young opera fans attended dress rehearsal July 16.

Wahid, with Dimitris Mahlis on oud and Chris Wabich on frame drums, performed mid-Easterrn music at Preston Hall July 17.

Wahid, with Dimitris Mahlis on oud and Chris Wabich on frame drums, performed mid-Easterrn music at Preston Hall July 17.

Wahid, with Dimitris Mahlis on oud and Chris Wabich on frame drums, performed mid-Easterrn music at Preston Hall July 17.

The Festival New Jazz Trio is Trey Henry (bass), Ralph Humphrey (drums) and Julian Pollack (piano).

MMF's founding family, Allan Pollack, Juliah Waterfall Pollack and Susan Waterfall backstage.

The Festival New Jazz Trio plus Tierney Sutton take a bow.

The Festival New Jazz Trio plus Tierney Sutton take a bow.

Tierney Sutton with The Festival New Jazz Trio

Tierney Sutton sits in with the Festival New Jazz Trio and gives credit to Julian Pollack on piano.

Tierney Sutton sits in with the Festival New Jazz Trio

Tierney Sutton sits in with the Festival New Jazz Trio

Julian Pollack with the Festival New Jazz Trio

Tierney Sutton sits in with the Festival New Jazz Trio.

Ralph Humphrey on drums with the Festival New Jazz Trio

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The Festival New Jazz Trio with Julian Pollack, Trey Henry and Ralph Humphrey.

Tierney Sutton and her group take a bow.

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Cellist Mark Summer with Tierney Sutton group

Serge Merlaud performs with Tierney Sutton.

Tierney Sutton with Serge Merlaud, Ralph Humphrey and Mark Summer performs After Blue, The Joni Mitchel Project.

Lech Wierzynkski goes airborn

The California Honeydrops invited the audience to dance on the stage.

The California Honeydrops in jug band mode

The California Honeydrops rocked the big tent Monday night

Honeydrops co-founder and drummer Ben Malament on washboard.

The California Honeydrops lead a Second Line parade through the audience

The California Honeydrops get ready to lead a New Orleans style Second Line parade around the big tent.

The California Honeydrops leader Lech Wierzynkski performed with a bandaged finger.

The California Honeydrops in the big tent Monday night

The Calder Quartet performed in the concert hall tent Monday afternoon.

Canadian trio De Temps Antan in the big tent Sunday afternoon

Canadian trio De Temps Antan in the big tent Sunday afternoon

Canadian trio De Temps Antan in the big tent Sunday afternoon

The Canadian trio De Temps Antan performed traditional music with foot percussion from Quebec. The players are Éric Beaudry, André Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis.

Violinist Livia Sohn with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Violinist Livia Sohn received enthusiastic applause for her performance with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Violinist Livia Sohn received enthusiastic applause for her performance with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Violinist Livia Sohn with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Violinist Livia Sohn received enthusiastic applause for her performance with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Featured Violin Soloist Livia Sohn performed the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Featured Violin Soloist Livia Sohn performed the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Violinist Livia Sohn with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Featured Violin Soloist Livia Sohn performed the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Violinist Livia Sohn with the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Allan Pollack.

Maestro Allan Pollack and the Festival Orchestra stand to acknowledge applause during the opening concert.

The Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra performs the opening concert under the baton of Allan Pollack. View full screen for best effect.

The festival orchestra stands to acknowledge applause at the start of the opening concert

Entering the concert hall tent for the opening concert.

Entering the concert hall tent for The California Honeydrops Monday evening.

Leona Walden and Sally Stewart with two other volunteers in the festival merchandise booth.

Panoramic view of the Mendocino Music Festival site before the July 11 opening concert. View full screen for best effect.

Audience members picnic outside the 800 seat tent concert hall before the opening concert July 11, 2015.

Audience members picnic outside the 800 seat tent concert hall before the opening concert July 11, 2015.

The Mendocino Music Festival 2015 tent concert hall on Mendocino Headlands State Park grounds.

Stage lighting expert Tony Tringale

John Wilson, kitchen volunteer

Kitchen volunteers with a tray of mango and sticky rice desserts for the MMF orchestra dinner.

Chef Garnish Daly at the serving line for the orchestra rehearsal dinner. Menu: Thai green curry, salad, sticky rice with fresh mango. It was good!

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The Mendocino Music Festival 2015 Orchestra in rehearsal for opening night.

The partially raised tent on Main St. in Mendocino.

The tent was raised on June 26. It was only half up in this shot.

Raising the 800-seat concert hall tent takes know-how and skill.

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David Lindstrom in the cab of his Bobcat dozer during the tent raising.

David Lindstrom's agile Bobcat dozer lifts a pole and hundreds of pounds of canvas into place.

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