Community Calendar

English Country Dance is Fun, Friendly Folk Dance for All. "Take a Dance", our ECD orchestra, provide lovely, and lively music for our dancing pleasure. All dances taught and prompted by alternating local and guest callers. Newcomers always welcome, first time is FREE. Dancers aged 30 and under FREE. Just watching and listening FREE! Please wear comfy, low-heeled shoes. Shoes that slide are better than shoes that grip. For more information visit our website at www.mendoecd.org.

Hijinks of the High Baroque: Composers Behaving Badly

A fun and user-friendly concert that mixes humor and the High Baroque. Beautiful pieces are punctuated with hilarious stories of the composers' misdeeds and shenanigans. Consisting of pieces written by some of the greats —Handel, Telemann, Veracini, Rameau, Purcell, etc — it is an engaging approach to music that is often typecast as “too serious.” The musicians presenting this delightful program are Judith Linsenberg-recorder, Alexa Hayes-Pilon-viola da gamba, Elizabeth Blumenstock-violin, and Katherine Heater-harpsichord from Musica Baroque.

English Country Dance is Fun, Friendly Folk Dance for All. "Take a Dance", our ECD orchestra, provide lovely, and lively music for our dancing pleasure. All dances taught and prompted by alternating local and guest callers. Newcomers always welcome, first time is FREE. Dancers aged 30 and under FREE. Just watching and listening FREE! Please wear comfy, low-heeled shoes. Shoes that slide are better than shoes that grip. For more information visit our website at www.mendoecd.org.

Jack Van Geem, world renowned percussionist with San Francisco Symphony and Daniel Hallett will perform J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations on two marimbas. The marimba has been characterized as having the warmth of the organ sound and the clarity of the harpsichord and therefore making it a perfect instrument to bring this amazing masterpiece to life. The program will also feature A. Piazzolla’s lively Cuatro Estaciones Potenas; The four seasons of Bueno Aires. A rare opportunity to hear these well-known works in a new light performed by master musicians.

Igor Veligan, Natsuki Fukasawa, and Mike Dahlberg bring you "In the Shadow of Mountains," a concert weaving together the lyrical artistry of American composer Amy Beach and the monumental vision of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio. While Beach's Romance and Berceuse evoke a sense of wonder and nostalgia. Beethoven's trio unfolds as a grand musical journey, mirroring the awe-inspiring nature and leading to a triumphant conclusion. Join us for a music journey with piano trio as grand in scale as the California coastal landscape.

After last season’s success, Gut, Wind, and Wire are coming back! Mindy Rosenfeld, Mark Cudek, and Ronn McFarlane will explore a wide variety of music from the 16th and 17th centuries, music from folk traditions and even original music. Through maple, boxwood, spruce, rosewood, strings of sheep gut and metal on cittern, viola da gamba, riq, lute, flutes, fifes, and bagpipes, their sound springs forth through touch and breath. Mark, Mindy, and Ronn have been making music together for over four decades!

Rhythm, folk songs, romanticism and carnival animals come together and come to life! Pianist Amy Zanrosso and cellist Evan Kahn will be performing Bohuslav Martinu’s dance-filled Sonata No. 1, Ralph Vaughn Williams gorgeous and “treated with love” Studies in Folk Song and Rachmaninoff's romantic and drama-filled Sonata for Cello and Piano. The concert and season finale will feature a big party of musicians romping through The Carnival of the Animals, Camille Saint-Saëns humorous depictions of lions, chickens, turtles and even….music critics. Not to be missed!