A magical blend of fine music by outstanding performers in one of the most enchanting sites in Northern California. Evenings include orchestra concerts, Big Band, chamber music ensembles, dance, blues, jazz, world, folk, bluegrass and popular contemporary music. Daytime concerts include lecture/recitals at the Piano Series, a performance by participants in the Emerging Artists Program, and small concerts in intimate venues throughout the historic town of Mendocino.

Schedule:

2:30 p.m: Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers (Preston Hall)
The musicians will reveal surprising new sides to Stravinsky through the years in these intimate concerts. Alexander Katsman will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le Faune, a songs composed by Stravinsky during his honeymoon. Jensen will be joined a bit later by Alexander on "Cradle Songs for a Cat." Susan and Julian Waterfall Pollack will play "Eight Easy Pieces" on one piano. Eric Kritz will take a turn on "Three Solo Pieces for Clarinet," deeply moving and soulful Russian music. Following a brief intermission, Carolyn Steinbuck and Sam Weiser will play excerpts from Duo Concertante, Stravinsky's important work for piano and violin. Sarah Cahill and Elizabeth Dorman will team up on Concerto for Two Pianos, considered one of Stravinsky's major compositions for the instruments. Jensen and Katsman will return for "The Owl and the Pussycat," Stravinsky's final completed composition, which he based on a poem by Edward Lear.

7:30 p.m: Foghorn Stringband (Tent Concert Hall)
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Foghorn Stringband is considered one of the finest old-time string bands on the West Coast. Noted for "intense dedication to the sources" of the tradition, their music is billed as "a blend of high-spirited Appalachian dance music tying in sounds of traditional mountain fiddle tunes." Their interpretation of "old time" is played with the energy and edginess of punk rock that has a tremendous degree of technical finesse.