Pre-concert Lecture with Rich Festinger 2013
Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United StatesPre-concert Lecture at 7:00, Music for a Summer Evening, with composer Rich Festinger.
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Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Pre-Concert Lecture, Eugene Brancoveanu 2015
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Mozart with Punch and Dreck 2015
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$12 – $29
Pre-Concert Lecture, Susan Waterfall 2015
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesPre-Concert Lecture, Patrick Gomes 2015
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
How to Listen to Beethoven: An Exploration of Musical Form 2016
Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CAIncrease 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 StatesEnhance 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 of her musical peers and made her an audience favorite throughout the country. Equally at home in the operatic, lied and oratorio repertoires, Ms. Neff ...
Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2016
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesDeepen 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 StatesStefanie 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 diverse subjects, including the critical history of opera, baroque music drama and related vocal traditions, music production and reception in early modern contexts, genre study, ...
Does Music Transform Young Lives?
Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CADoes 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 kids. Listen to nine-year old Frej Barty describe the process of developing a plot for the mini-opera we presented at last summer’s Operation Opera, Abduction ...
Free
Pre-Concert Lecture, Jason Sherbundy and Ann Woodhead 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesIn 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. Schubert’s potent settings of Romantic lyric poetry thrived in bourgeois settings where there was a growing need for personal emotional outlet. The inwardness and subjectivity ...
$12 – $30
Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesKayleen 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 Francisco Conservatory of Music for seventeen years, Kayleen also teaches regularly for the Osher Life Long Learning Institutes at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and ...
Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesDaniel 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 teacher, he has been on the staffs and faculties of the Juilliard School, the San Francisco Opera, Opera San Jose, the San Francisco Conservatory of ...
Thoughts on Interpretation: a discussion with Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall 2018
Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CAThoughts on Interpretation: a discussion with Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall Join in a discussion of the interpretation of classical music. What does interpretation mean? What kind of effect does it have on the listener, if any? What are some of the issues musicians explore as they study, prepare and perform a piece of music? Does ...
Free
Pre-Concert Lecture, Erin Neff 2018
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEnhance 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 of her musical peers and made her an audience favorite throughout the country. Equally at home in the operatic, lied and oratorio repertoires, Ms. Neff ...
Pre-Concert Lecture, Marcia Lotter 2018
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesA freelance musician throughout northern California, Marcia Lotter received her undergraduate training from the University of Washington in Seattle and has studied with such noted teachers as Vilem Sokol, Andor Toth, and Leonard Austria. Marcia performs in chamber groups for concerts and special events and has played in back-up groups for singers such as Smokey ...
Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2018
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesAs a soloist or collaborator, Daniel Lockert is equally versatile on the piano, organ and harpsichord. A native of San Diego, CA, he began formal piano studies at the age of five. Throughout high school, he exclusively studied the organ. After getting his Bachelor’s in Piano Performance and a minor in organ from Loma Linda ...
Pre-Concert Lecture, Anne Woodhead 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesLecture admission is included with your concert ticket. Ann Woodhead, Stage Director for this year’s opera, L’elisir d’amore, is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, actor, and director. This is her second production for the Mendocino Music Festival. Now a full-time Mendocino Coast resident, Ann lived in Sonoma County for 30 years, teaching at Sonoma State University ...
Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesKayleen 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 Francisco Conservatory of Music for seventeen years, Kayleen also teaches regularly for the Osher Life Long Learning Institutes at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and ...
Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesAs a soloist or collaborator, Daniel Lockert is equally versatile on the piano, organ and harpsichord. A native of San Diego, CA, he began formal piano studies at the age of five. Throughout high school, he exclusively studied the organ. After getting his Bachelor’s in Piano Performance and a minor in organ from Loma Linda ...
Wonder Women: Hidden Heroines of Music History, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D.
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesComposer, musicologist and pianist Kayleen Asbo, the acclaimed cultural historian for the Santa Rosa Symphony, will introduce us through lecture and performance to four of the most fascinating women from music history. Meet Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess of the 12th century whose art, music and writings about nature contain revelations of wonder for ...
$15
Lunchtime Lecture Series
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Discover Lieder
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Kim Nalley and Allan Pollack
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Christòpheren Nomura: Boyhood to Broadway
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