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STYLISH HAYDN QUARTETS CLOSE GREEN ROOM SERIESby Terry McNeill Sunday, May 9, 2021  Completing the Green Music Center’s spring series series of “Green Room” virtual concerts, the St. Lawrence String Quartet played May 9 a lightweight program of two Haydn works. Lightweight perhaps, but in every way satisfying.
The G Major Quartet (Op. 76, No.1) began the music that was supplement...
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ECLECTIC PIANISM IN SPRING LAKE VILLAGE VIRTUAL RECITALby Terry McNeill Wednesday, May 5, 2021  During the pandemic The Santa Rosa Symphony’s virtual concerts received their due in performance praise, but another series, Spring Lake Village, more quietly presented monthly virtual concerts to a select local audience.
May 5 saw the latest event, produced by impresario Robert Hayden, and feature...
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SONIC CONTRASTS HIGHLIGHT SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY SPRING PROGRAMby Terry McNeill Sunday, April 25, 2021  In a curious mixture of compositions, the Santa Rosa Symphony’s penultimate virtual concert of the season April 25 unfolded in ways both highly satisfying and a bit perplexing.
Directed by resident Music Director Francesco Lecce-Chong, the event followed a familiar format – several contemporary wor...
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ZUILL PLAYS ZWILICH WITH SANTA ROSA SYMPHONYby Steve Osborn Sunday, March 28, 2021  The Santa Rosa Symphony took a cautious step toward the return of live music in their March 28 virtual concert by sharing the stage with an actual live soloist rather than an apparition. Star cellist Zuill Bailey was still masked, and his back was toward the equally masked and plexiglassed orchestra...
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ECLECTIC CELLO PIANO VIRTUAL RECITAL FROM TOMKINS ZIVIAN DUOby Terry McNeill Sunday, March 28, 2021  The venerable 41-year Redwood Arts Council Series in Occidental has joined the virtual recital world with low budget but artistically satisfying programs, mostly using videos filmed in the performer’s residences. March 28 saw the Tanya Tomkins-Eric Zivian duo present an eclectic program from their ...
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SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY HITS THE SWEET SPOTby Steve Osborn Sunday, February 28, 2021  Small orchestras can inhabit a sweet spot between chamber ensembles and full orchestras, but how well they hit that spot depends on the composer's orchestration and the players' ability to project. That dependence was on full display in the Santa Rosa Symphony's Feb. 28 concert, which featured three...
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NOVEL OBOE-HARPSICHORD RECITAL FROM AIKEN DUO IN UKIAH by Terry McNeill Sunday, February 21, 2021  Oboe and harpsichord recitals are a rare North Bay event, even in a pandemic environment where a formal hall setting isn’t available. So it was a delight Feb. 21 to experience on the Ukiah Symphony’s website a recital by Symphony oboist Beth Aiken and harpsichordist husband Tom.
The Aiken home vis...
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A HEALTHY MIX OF TRANSCRIPTIONS AND ORIGINALS FROM THE SR SYMPHONYby Steve Osborn Sunday, January 24, 2021  Transcriptions and ascending arpeggios were the order of the day on Jan. 24, as the Santa Rosa Symphony performed uplifting works by Bach/Webern, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Marianna Martínes and Mozart. The concert video was made in Weill Hall on Jan. 9.
The first transcription was Webern’s 1935 renderi...
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HEROIC EFFORT FROM THE SANTA ROSA SYMPHONYby Steve Osborn Sunday, December 13, 2020  December 13 was a rainy day, perfect for huddling indoors and watching a prerecorded “live” performance by the Santa Rosa Symphony. The program was expansive, with music from the 18th through 21st centuries, and the mood was festive, in keeping with the holiday season. There was something in the fea...
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MASKED SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY CARRIES ON BRILLIANTLYby Steve Osborn Sunday, November 15, 2020  In some ways the Santa Rosa Symphony’s Nov. 15 concert on YouTube resembled a Conceptual Art performance from the 1970s. On display were about 30 masked orchestral musicians playing six feet apart from each other on stage, some of them separated by plexiglass barriers. In the 1970s, the concept behi...
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MTA BENEFIT CONCERT FEATURES FAURE, DVORAK, JANACEK AND BARBER WORKSby Terry McNeillSunday, November 11, 2018
In a splendid concert Nov. 11 the Music Teachers Association of California, Sonoma County Chapter, presented their sixth annual benefit concert before 40 avid listeners in the Santa Rosa home of Helen Howard and Robert Yeats.
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