How to Listen to Beethoven: An Exploration of Musical Form 2016

Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA

Increase your musical pleasure by learning to listen to musical form! If you know what the form is going to be, you will have a good chance of following it as the piece unfolds. Susan Waterfall and Allan Pollack will help you to understand the features of sonata, rondo, and variation form with diagrams, audio examples and definitions of terms like tonality, modulation, and counterpoint.

In July, join Susan Waterfall and an array of exceptional Festival musicians for five days of lectures and narrated concerts exploring the life and music of Beethoven, the most influential and consistently popular composer in Western music.

Pre-Concert Lecture, Erin Neff 2016

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Enhance your experience of this evening's opera performance with a pre-concert lecture by director Erin Neff. Mezzo-soprano Erin Neff’s dynamic performance abilities and radiant sound have earned her the veneration ...

Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2016

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Deepen your enjoyment of the evening's concert by attending this pre-concert lecture by Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D.

Join Susan Waterfall and an array of exceptional Festival musicians for five days of lectures and narrated concerts exploring the life and music of Beethoven, the most influential and consistently popular composer in Western music.

Pre-Concert Lecture, Stefanie Tcharos 2016

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Stefanie Tcharos is a historian of early modern music with broad expertise in 17th- and 18th-century Europe, and specialties in Italian music and musical practices.  Her research and teaching traverse ...

Does Music Transform Young Lives?

Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA

Does Music Transform Young Lives? Yes! The Mendocino Music Festival and the Community Center of Mendocino invite you to spend an hour experiencing the transformative joy that music can bring to ...

Free

The House Jacks Workshop 2017

Matheson Performing Arts Center Cahto Street and Ford Street, Mendocino, CA

Watch the House Jacks singers work their magic on several local a cappella groups. FREE TICKETS

Free

Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

In Susan Waterfall’s multi-media exploration of Franz Schubert’s life, you will learn how the Vienna of Mozart and Beethoven changed with an increasingly large, restricted and regimented urban middle class. ...

$12 – $30

Joan Soriano Workshop 2017

Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Be inspired by Joan Soriano’s work with local middle and high school students who have been participating in the Lead Guitar program. FREE TICKETS

Free

Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Kayleen Asbo is a passionate scholar: a cultural historian, musician, writer and teacher who weaves myth, music, psychology, history and art with experiential learning. A faculty member of the San ...

Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Daniel Lockert has collaborated with singers past and present of the Metropolitan Opera, such as Deborah Voight, as well as current young recitalists, including Christopheren Nomura. As a coach and ...