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SIX GUITARISTS IN UNIQUE NAPA RECITALby Gary Digman Sunday, July 25, 2021  The first Napa Valley Guitar Festival was held at Napa’s First Presbyterian Church July 25, and featured performances from six classical guitarists. The Church is an iconic structure in downtown Napa, its huge white presence dominating the scene, and the white theme continues inside punctuated by be
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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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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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LONG DISTANCE LOVE BEGINS VOM SUMMER FESTIVALby Pamela Hicks Gailey Thursday, June 24, 2021  The Valley of the Moon Music Festival offered a 7th season preview June 24 with a stunning online concert, aptly named Long Distance Love, featuring inspired performances of Beethoven's short song cycle An die ferne Geliebte,, and selections from Brahms’ beloved Liebeslieder Wal
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ROMERO'S ARTISTRY IN SLV RECITAL PROGRAMMING AND PERFORMANCEby Terry McNeill Wednesday, June 2, 2021  Gustavo Romero has been an admired visitor to North Bay stages, playing over a decade recitals at Dominican University, the Music at Oakmont concerts and at the Spring Lake Village Concert Series.
He returned June 2 to SLV in a virtual recital, videoed from his home concert hall the University of N
by Terry McNeill Sunday, May 16, 2021  The inaugural concert of a new Mendocino County chamber group is a reason for celebration, and the Rubicon Trio made the most of a mixed musical menu during a May16 virtual concert.
Presented by the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra as the last in their “Salons with the Symphony” Series, the Rubicon began w
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PIANO VIRTUOSITY IN YAKUSHEV'S REDWOOD ARTS RECITALby Nicki Bell Sunday, May 16, 2021  Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev’s recital for the Redwood Arts Council was perhaps the local season’s virtual music at the greatest distance, as the filming May 16 came from a church in St. Petersburg. And good filming it was, with multiple camera viewpoints of the church, full and split screens and
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TWICE IS THE CHARM AT RIVER CHOIR'S BACH CANTATA PERFORMANCEby Terry McNeillTuesday, April 26, 2011
It’s pretty rare that an entire classical music program contains just one work, and just 22 minutes at that. Sonia Tubridy’s River Choir thought so much of Bach’s Cantata No. 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden, that they sang it twice in a program April 19, and repeated the Cantata April 26. And they performed it twice each time, and I’ll return to that later.
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