The Mendocino Music Festival is a magical blend of fine music by outstanding performers in one of the most enchanting sites in Northern California.
Evenings include breathtaking concerts featuring the glorious Festival Orchestra, the popular Big Band concert, chamber music ensembles, dance, blues, jazz, world, and folk music.
Days include lecture/recitals at the Piano Series, a children's matinee, performances by the Young Musicians, and chamber concerts at beautiful venues throughout Mendocino Village.
The Mendocino Music Festival continues to maintain its commitment to bringing the highest quality classical and contemporary music and musicians to a place founder and Artistic Director Allan Pollack has described as ". . . one of the most picturesque towns in the world."
French composer Fauré was featured in many of this season’s Mendocino Music Festival’s concerts, the final one July 25 with seven songs and two chamber music works, one old and one new.
Before a full Preston Hall house soprano Sylvie Jenson sang the Le Jardin Clos cycle from 1914, ably part...
Mendocino Music Festival’s centerpiece each year has been the symphonic concert in the big tent, and for the 38th season conductor Allan Pollack programmed July 24 compositions of expected audience appeal but with mixed performance achievement.
San Francisco-based pianist Robert Schwartz has been a frequent Mendocino Music Festival performer, and July 23 he played challenging recital in the Festival’s small Preston Hall before 100 listeners.
People expecting piano competition perfection would not find it here, but what they heard ...
Capping a gorgeous sunny day on the Northern California coastal cliffs, a full moon rose July 19 in a clear sky over the big Mendocino Music Festival tent. A concert presentation of Mozart’s comedy Così fan tutte (loosely translated as “All women are like that”) had just ended, and a happy audience ...
