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Chamber
A DRAMATIC THIRD TIME FOR THE LINCOLN AT OAKMONTby Terry McNeill Thursday, August 12, 2010  Beginning the fall chamber music season August 12 in Oakmont, Chicago’s Lincoln Trio played a disparate and demanding program with consummate artistry before 200 in Berger Auditorium.
But it was not the previously announced program, as the group, in their third appearance on the Oakmont Concert Seri...
Recital
DISCOVERY AND EDUCATION IN FESTIVAL DUO RECITALby Elizabeth MacDougall Tuesday, July 20, 2010  San Francisco pianists Paul Hersh and Teresa Yu presented a Mendocino Music Festival program July 20 titled “Reflections and Variations.” Mr. Hersh is known at the Festival for his professorial introductions to a performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1) and in 2011 he will perform Book 2...
by Elizabeth MacDougall Friday, July 16, 2010  Substituting for the announced soloist, Jade Simmons, American pianist Spencer Myer played a convincing recital in the Mendocino Music Festival’s Piano Series July 16 before in Mendocino’s breezy Preston Hall
Mr. Myer, a recent competitor and prize winner in national competitions, began his concert...
Recital
ROBERTS PLAYS UNEVEN RECITAL AT MENDOCINO FESTIVALby Terry McNeill Sunday, July 11, 2010  British pianist Paul Roberts played a recital in two disparate parts July 11 in Mendocino Music Festival’s piano series in Preston Hall.
Before 65 people Mr. Roberts planned the initial part around music of Ravel and Liszt, each with extensive descriptive titles. The pieces were preceded by a l...
Symphony
ALL RUSSIAN PROGRAM LAUNCHES 24TH MENDOCINO FESTIVAL SEASONby Terry McNeill Saturday, July 10, 2010  In a high-energy program of Russian music, conductor Allan Pollack and his Festival Orchestra opened the 24th Mendocino Music Festival season in grand style July 11 in the massive white tent on the Mendocino headlands bluff.
Even before the downbeat for the Shostakovich “Festival Overture,” Op. 96,...
by Kenn Gartner Thursday, July 01, 2010  At last, an old fashioned pianist!
Eighty persons attended Frank Glazer’s recital July 1 which, to this perpetual piano student, was worth twenty piano lessons. Asked why he does not retire, Mr. Glazer pointed out he is beginning to like the sound he creates on his instrument, and he is now 95. ...
Recital
A BIT OF GRACE IN SANTA ROSAby James R Harrod Friday, June 11, 2010  The June 11 evening recital by organist Douglas DeForeest at the Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa featured six meditative selections from the compositions of Richard Purvis (1913-1994), the organist of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco from 1947 to 1971.
DeForeest, dean of the Redwood Empire ...
by Terry McNeill Thursday, June 10, 2010  Ukrainian pianist Elena Ulyanova made her Sonoma County debut June 10 in an Oakmont Concert Series recital that was conventional in repertoire but quite agitating in performance. The pieces played were nearly a reprise of her November, 2008 recital in Tiburon’s St. Hilary Church, sans the big Rachm...
Opera
HENNESSEY TRIUMPHS IN CINNABAR'S WEST COAST PREMIERE OF TOBIAS PICKER'S EMMELINEby Richard Riccardi Friday, May 28, 2010  Cinnabar Theater continues to excel in the Northern California music world. This small company has once again raised the musical and theatrical bar in their terrific production of Tobias Picker’s 1996 opera “Emmeline” that opened a West Coast premiere May 28 to a boisterous full house in their smal...
by Elizabeth MacDougall Saturday, May 15, 2010  In a pair of concerts closing the 30th season, the Ukiah Symphony performed March 15 and 16 just two works with the programmatic theme “A Close Friendship.” And it was altogether a cordial event as 20-year veteran conductor Les Pfutzenreuter led strong performances of works of Brahms and Dvorak. Sa...
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RARE GERMAN ORGAN PRELUDES PLAYED AT INCARNATION BY JULANDERby James HarrodFriday, April 09, 2010
Church of the Incarnation organist Harold Julander played an outstanding recital of German chorale preludes April 9 on the Church’s Caassavant instrument. The program consisted of preludes by Bach, Mendelssohn, Max Drischner, Max Bornefeld, Ernst Pepping, and Jan Bender. Mr. Julander interpreted and the compositions with masterful ease and obvious familiarity with the genre.
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