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Recital
RARE BAROQUE GEMS IN CREATIVE ARTS SERIES CONCERTby Joanna Bramel Young Sunday, June 02, 2013  A small but appreciative June 2 audience heard in Santa Rosa's Resurrection Parish a delightful buffet of baroque vocal and instrumental works performed by the five-year old Vinaccesi Ensemble of Berkeley.
Nanette McGuinness soprano; Kindra Scharich, mezzo soprano; Jonathan Smucker, tenor; and ba...
Opera
POWERFUL OPENING NIGHT FOR CINNABAR'S CARMENby Vaida Falconbridge Saturday, June 01, 2013  When "Carmen" debuted at the Opera Comique in 1875, it was poorly received. Its composer, Georges Bizet, died a few months later, thinking he had written another failure. Now widely considered the most popular opera in the world, "Carmen" was excellently performed and given an enthusiastic reception...
Symphony
FIVE FINGERS WITH THE STRENGTH OF TENby Steve Osborn Thursday, May 23, 2013  "My name is David, and I'm going to be your conductor for this evening." With that corny but amusing opening line, guest conductor David Robertson introduced himself and the San Francisco Symphony to a less than full house at the Green Music Center on May 23. It was hard to understand why the place ...
Symphony
UKIAH SYMPHONY CLOSES SEASON WITH TWO BIG WORKSby Ed Reinhart Sunday, May 19, 2013  The Ukiah Symphony closed its 2012-13 season May 19th with a bold matinee presentation at the Mendocino College Theater. Featured were the Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat minor, Opus 23, and the third and fourth Movements of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Opus 125.
Pianist Lawrence Holmfjo...
Symphony
A PERFECT 10 FOR THE TENTHby Steve Osborn Saturday, May 11, 2013  The Santa Rosa Symphony capped off its first year in the resplendent Green Music Center with an impassioned performance of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, widely regarded as his masterpiece in the genre. Every section of the orchestra, from the lowest bass to the most stratospheric piccolo, played to...
Symphony
PRAYERS AND REDEMPTION FROM THE APSCby Nicki Bell Saturday, May 04, 2013  For its final set of the 2012-13 season on May 4 and 5, the American Philharmonic of Sonoma County offered a program titled "Prayer and Redemption." The first half consisted of the prayers, the second of the joy of redemption. Guest conductor Cyrus Ginwala spoke about the pieces beforehand and then ...
Symphony
FULL CIRCLE FOR KAHANEby Steve Osborn Saturday, April 27, 2013  Since the conclusion of his decade-long tenure with the Santa Rosa Symphony in 2006, conductor laureate Jeffrey Kahane has traveled widely, but he has often circled back to Sonoma County as a piano soloist. On Saturday evening, April 27, he upped the ante by not only bringing his prodigious keyboard...
Recital
MESMERIZING IRISH MEZZO TELLS STORIES IN WEILL SONG RECITALby Vaida Falconbridge Sunday, April 21, 2013  There were stories of fiery gypsies, dances, kisses, deep angst, unrequited love, mermaids, and headstrong young maidens. Irish-born mezzo soprano Tara Erraught told her Weill Hall audience April 21 in her lilting Irish brogue, “People ask why I pick the programs the way I do. Well, being from Irel...
Recital
SONG CYCLES FOR CONNOISSEURSby Terry McNeill Tuesday, April 09, 2013  Elina Garanca’s April 9 Weill Hall recital was a connoisseur’s program, eschewing the more popular song literature and concentrating on mostly subtle and evocative works of Schumann, Berg and Richard Strauss.
With pianist Kevin Murphy, the Latvian mezzo soprano, famous from the opera stage as a sum...
Recital
VADIM REPIN: STARLIGHT, SHINING BRIGHTby Steve Osborn Sunday, April 07, 2013 
Born in Siberia in 1971, violinist Vadim Repin is as Russian as they come, but he played nary a note of Russian music in his April 7 recital at the Green Music Center's Weill Hall. The closest he got was the last movement of the Janacek violin sonata, which celebrates the triumphal entry of Russian...
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BRITISH COMPOSER'S WORKS FEATURED IN USO'S SEASON FINALEby Carole HesterSunday, May 20, 2012
The Ukiah Symphony Orchestra’s last concert of their season, given May 19 and 20 at Mendocino College’s Center Theater, was stellar. Conductor Les Pfutzenreuter, in his 22nd season, has proven to be deft in his choice of works fitting the Symphony’s capabilities as well as the interest of the community served. This concert was amazing in many aspects.
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