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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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AUTHORITATIVE BEETHOVEN SONATA IN KLEIN'S OCCIDENTAL RECITALby Terry McNeill Friday, October 8, 2021  People attending the first Redwood Arts Council Occidental concert in 20 months found a surprise – a luxurious new lobby attached to the Performing Arts Center. It was a welcome bonus to a recital given by pianist Andreas Klein where the music seemed almost as familiar as was the long shuttered hal
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MOVIE MUSIC ON THE WINDSOR GREEN IN SO CO PHIL SEASON OPENERby Terry McNeill Sunday, October 3, 2021  People approaching the Windsor Green bandstand Oct. 3 for the Sonoma County Philharmonic’s season opening concert had some cause for concern. After 18 months of silence would the all-volunteer orchestra have enough musicians for a big movie music program? After all, performers can move, retire, or
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SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY RETURNS IN TRIUMPHby Steve Osborn Sunday, October 3, 2021  It is often the case that a single piece or performer steals the show at a symphony concert, but at the Oct. 3 performance of the Santa Rosa Symphony, the show itself stole the show. The concert opened with a serene 1982 tone poem by Libby Larsen, followed by a masterful performance by soloist Julia
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TWO WIND SOLOISTS CHARM AT SSU ORCHESTRA CONCERT IN WEILLby Terry McNeill Sunday, September 26, 2021  The house of music has many rooms. That dusty adage was never truer than when Weill Hall Sept. 25 hosted a roaring New Orleans-style musical party, and less than a day later a mostly sedate Sonoma State University student orchestra performance.
Before a crowd of 200 conductor Alexander Kahn led a
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CLEARY'S NEW ORLEANS BAND IGNITES PARTY FOR THE GREEN AT SSUby Terry McNeill Saturday, September 25, 2021  A dramatic and unique start to the new Green Music’s Center’ 2021-2022 season exploded in a “Party for the Green” Sept. 25, a New Orleans (NO) style commotion featuring Jon Cleary and his Absolute Monster Gentlemen band, inside and outside of Weill Hall.
Beginning with a private gourmet dinner in t
by Terry McNeill Sunday, August 29, 2021  Final summer music festival programs are often a mix of what has come before, with the theme and even a featured composer taking a last stage appearance, with a dramatic wrap up composition. San Francisco’s International Piano Festival defied the norm August 29 with an eclectic French-flavored prog
by Terry McNeill Friday, August 27, 2021  In a departure from usual summer festival fare Julia Den Boer played an August 27 virtual recital in the San Francisco Piano Festival’s 4.5 season with four works, all mostly quiet but all in separate ways insistently demanding of artist and listener.
Throughout the 40 minutes there was nary a powe
by Terry McNeill Friday, August 20, 2021  Charles Griffes’ piano music is similar to that of Busoni, Reger and even Poulenc, in that there is a sporadic flourish of interest with concerts and scholarly work, then a quick fade into another long period of obscurity.
So, it was a delight to have an all-Griffes recital August 20 on the San F
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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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MOVIE MUSIC ON THE WINDSOR GREEN IN SO CO PHIL SEASON OPENERby Terry McNeillSunday, October 3, 2021
People approaching the Windsor Green bandstand Oct. 3 for the Sonoma County Philharmonic’s season opening concert had some cause for concern. After 18 months of silence would the all-volunteer orchestra have enough musicians for a big movie music program? After all, performers can move, retire, or bail from the arduous work that goes into playing with an orchestra.
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