• Volunteer Sign-Up Day 2025

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Performance

    The Mendocino Music Festival is, first and foremost, a community of music lovers who collaborate to produce the Festival, create the music, and enjoy the performances. Volunteers are at the ...

  • Thoughts on Interpretation: a discussion with Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall 2018

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Classical

    Thoughts 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
  • Does Music Transform Young Lives?

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Lecture

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

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Classical

    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.

  • Volunteer Sign-Up Day 2014

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Performance

    Join us at Volunteer Sign-Up Day.