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SPARKLING WIND, STRING, HARP MUSIC AT DEVON HOUSE GARDEN CONCERTby Abby Wasserman Saturday, October 9, 2021  Take a mild autumn evening, a garden gazebo with patterned rugs and lit with soft bulbs, shake in a fine chamber ensemble, add a rising new moon, and you have a recipe for the musical delight that violist Elizabeth Prior presented Oct. 9 in her Devon House Garden Concert series.
The Marin Terra Li
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ONE PIANO, TWO PIANO, THREE PIANO, FOREby Terry McNeill Thursday, July 29, 2021  Schroeder Hall was nearly full July 29 for the final pianoSonoma concert of their season, and presumably the draw and highlight for many of the 150 attending was Bach’s Concerto for Four Pianos. And that performance was probably going to be a North Bay premiere.
However, it wasn’t the highl
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PENULTIMATE VOM FESTIVAL CONCERT FEATURES GORGEOUS VOCALISMby Pamela Hicks Gailey Thursday, July 29, 2021  The 2021 Valley of the Moon Music Festival continued on July 29 with a sumptuous online offering of French songs, concluding with the second piano quartet by Fauré, Op. 45. Such a beautiful bouquet of video performances wonderfully filmed and recorded softened the disappointment of not being able to
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BOGAS' TENURE ENDS IN OUTDOOR GUALALA CHAMBER CONCERTby Iris Lorenzfife Sunday, July 25, 2021  The preconcert call that music lovers should gather at Gualala Arts July 25 to attend the final Roy Bogas and Friends Concert was not quite as dire as it sounded. It seems that a year of Covid 19 and an 88th birthday had combined to convince Mr. Bogas that he was working too hard. But with cellist P
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CLARA SCHUMANN TRIO COMMANDS VOM CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT AT HANNAby Terry McNeill Saturday, July 24, 2021  The Valley of the Moon Chamber Music Series has begun several virtual and a few live concerts in its new seventh season, some broadcast from Sonoma’s Hanna Center Hall and some in posh local venues. July 24’s video had a small live audience and a well-produced video program of three works.
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RARE LANG SONGS SPARKLE AT VOM FESTIVAL VIDEO RECITALby Pamela Hicks Gailey Wednesday, July 21, 2021  Unexpected pleasures are often the best. Valley of the Moon Chamber Festival presented a such a pleasure last week-a July 21 recorded performance by tenor Kyle Stegall and pianist Eric Zivian in another mini-recital (very mini-just 15 minutes!) of six songs by the nineteenth century German composer
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EXEMPLARY QUARTET PLAYING IN MENDO FESTIVAL FT. BRAGG CONCERTby Terry McNeill Wednesday, July 21, 2021  Faced with the impossibility of presenting concerts in the iconic large white tent on the bluff, the Mendocino Music Festival opted to use Ft. Bragg’s Cotton Auditorium for ten events in the abbreviated 35th season. San Francisco’s Alexander String Quartet played July 21 to a fully masked audience
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ECLECTIC PROGRAMMING AT PIANOSONOMA CONCERT IN SCHROEDER HALLby Pamela Hicks Gailey Tuesday, July 20, 2021  After a dark year bereft of live performance, pianoSonoma launched July 20 the first Vino & Vibrato concert of the 2021 season in Sonoma State's Schroeder Hall, albeit sadly senza vino due to Covid protocols. Three exceptional musicians showered the audience with an interesting variety of pia
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RARELY-PLAYED SCHUMANN HIGHLIGHTS HEALDSBURG RECITALby Terry McNeill Saturday, July 10, 2021  Brave New Music sporadically produces concerts in and around Healdsburg, and July 10’s violin recital in downtown St. Paul’s Church must have been one of the first post-lockdown, post-be-extra-careful classical music concerts in Sonoma County's summer season.
New Music Founder Gary McLaughlin with
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ECHOS ON A WARM SUMMER NIGHTby Abby Wasserman Saturday, July 10, 2021  ECHO Chamber Orchestra’s first concert in a year and a half, “A Musical Promenade,” was a promenade indeed. When patrons arrived at San Anselmo’s First Presbyterian Church for the 6:00 performance July 10, they were funneled through the garden to the Duncan Hall patio, where folding chairs were set
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BOGAS' TENURE ENDS IN OUTDOOR GUALALA CHAMBER CONCERTby Iris LorenzfifeSunday, July 25, 2021
The preconcert call that music lovers should gather at Gualala Arts July 25 to attend the final Roy Bogas and Friends Concert was not quite as dire as it sounded. It seems that a year of Covid 19 and an 88th birthday had combined to convince Mr. Bogas that he was working too hard. But with cellist Peter Wyrick on hand, a little persuasion meant that future summer concerts would be called “Peter Wyrick and Friends” Concerts and Roy Bogas will remain a good friend - and at the piano.
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