Presented by the Fort Bragg Center for the Arts Music Series, is Pianist Carolyn Steinbuck and Cellist David Kadarauch on April 21, 2013 at 3:00 pm at Preston Hall, 44831 Main Street, Mendocino. These are two of our remarkable local musicians, who will be performing works by Bach, Gershwin, Albeniz, Lou Harrison, and Brahms.

CAROLYN STEINBUCK has been active in the musical life of the Mendocino community as a pianist, conductor and teacher for over 35 years. Her piano teachers include her mother, Marion James (through high school); Robert Dix Lincoln at Douglass College in New Jersey (B.A. ’67); Gunnar Johansen and Tait Sanford Barrows at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.M. ’69); Barbara Shearer of Berkeley; and Karl Ulrich Schnabel, with whom she studied for over 20 years. She was a part-time music instructor at College of the Redwoods from 1976 through 2007 and at Santa Rosa Junior College from 1982 through 2007. From 1986 to 1996, she was Executive Director of the Mendocino Music Festival. Over the past 25 years, she has performed with the Mendocino Music Festival as a chamber player, chorus master, piano soloist and conductor. For 24 years, she directed the College of the Redwoods Community Chorus and the South Coast Community Chorus/Hwy 1 Jazz Choir, and was a regular guest conductor of Symphony of the Redwoods, retiring in 2007. She recently returned to conducting as director of the Coastal Singers in Point Arena, and she continues as Chorus Master of the Mendocino Music Festival Chorus. In October 2010, she performed a solo piano recital for Concerts Grand in Ukiah and Opus in Mendocino.

DAVID KADARAUCH

Principal Cello

David Kadarauch, Principal Cellist of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra for the last 37 years, was born in Washington, D.C. and educated at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Vienna Academy, where he studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. A winner of the Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Auditions, Mr. Kadarauch soloed with that orchestra in 1968, and was a finalist and prize winner in the Prague International Competition for Violoncello in 1970.

David recently retired from the position of Principal Cello with the San Francisco Ballet, a position he held for 29 years. Married with two grown children, he divides his time between Berkeley and Mendocino. Chamber music, teaching, and antiquarian books are other interests.

Tickets purchased in advance are $20 and may be purchased by mail by sending your check made to F.B.C.A. to F.B.C.A. 13110 Pomo Lane, Mendocino 95460. Please include a stamped return envelope.

Stevenswood Spa Resort is only 2 minutes south, of Mendocino, and Preston Hall, Main Street, Mendocino. Plan on coming to the coast and enjoy one of our suites, dinner and relax and get pampered in our spa.

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Real Vocal String Quartet playing April 7

The classically trained players of the Real Vocal String Quartet whose members also comprise’s of a four piece vocal ensemble. RVSQ re-imagines the classical string quartet as an inclusive vehicle for innovative string playing. In concert, they bang on their violins, stomp their feet, and allow African trance music to influence their take on old-time fiddle tunes. Originating new repertoire while exploring the confluence of strings and vocal music, this unique ensemble is the only combined vocal and string quartet performing on the chamber music scene, or any scene today.

RVSQ was formed by violinest Irene Sazer. Alisa Rose also plays violin, and Dina MacCabee is a violist and Jessica Ivry plays the cello. The group’s broad repertoire embraces the diverse influences of all four players, from jazz and rock to West African music and bluegrass. Their chemistry as a musical group has become a catalyst for a creative expression using American, African, Brazilian, Balken and Appalachian inspirations to stretch beyond the limits of string music.

RVSQ’s recent performances include Yoshi’s San Francisco, U.C. Berkeley, Freight & Salvage, Old First Concerts, Switchboard New Music Festival, Drom NYC, Whole Earth Festival, and the Fillmore.

Catch their performance on Sunday April 7 at 5:00 pm at the Mendocino Art Center Main Gallery. Located at 45200 Little Lake Street at Kasten Street. Tickets $15. 707-937-5818 or 800-653-3328.

Stevenswood Spa Resort is only 2 minutes south, of the village of Mendocino, and the Mendocino Art Center. Plan on coming to the coast and enjoy one of our suites, dinner and relax and get pampered in our spa.

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Plan on an evening of entertainment with the Symphony of the Redwoods Spring Concert with special guest pianist Elena Casanova. The orchestra will be playing Rimsky-Korsakov, Dance of the Buffoons, and Brahms Serenade #1 and then Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto#1 with pianist Elena Casanova.

Elena Casanova

Elena Casanova, a Cuban born pianist, has a passion for her native music. For most of her life, she has been bringing the soul of the Cuban Masters to audiences across the country. She studied at the Alejandro Garcia Caturla Music Conservatory in Havana, the San Francisco Conservatory, Pacific Union College, and graduated with her Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from University of Redlands.

Casanova studied with Robert Bowman, Paul Glover, Annie Kim (a student of the Cuban pianist Jorge Bolet) Louanne Long, Maria D. “Marilola” (Vasquez) Robles, Tom Turinia, and Dr. Lynn Wheeler.

She has most recently performed the Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos with Elizabeth MacDougall, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 “The Emperor” and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Her enthusiasm for the music of her country led her to record a piano solo album released on the MSR Label in 2005. Her album “Recordando” is a sampling of the Maestros of Cuban Classical Music.

In 2008 Elena recorded “Fuente Sin Igual” an album done as a gift to her father on his birthday. The album consists of improvisations on her favorite Spanish Hymns. Most recently Casanova has worked with Jim Stewart of Wine Country Films to produced and edit a number of live performances available on DVD, which include the yearly sold out performances of the Professional Pianist Concert and most recently “Life at Acoustic Café” featuring singer/songwriter Marcos Pereda, Will Siegel on guitar and tiple, Steve Baird, on bass, Joel Cohen, cello and Amunka and Isa Dávila on percussion. She is also currently working on a new album “Music for my children”, a compilation of works for young children by lesser-known Cuban composers Maria Emma Botet, Jose Fernández de Coca, Maria Matilde Alea, Enrique Guerrero, and others.

Casanova is a very active member of the community in Mendocino County, California. She is President of the Board of the Community Concert Association and donates her time and energy to promote organizations like the Alzheimer’s Foundation, the Allegro Scholarship Fund, Arts in the School Program and many other music organizations in her community. She helps manage her husband’s gastroenterology practice and enjoys teaching a handful of students that include her children Adrian and Briana.

This concert will be held at the Cotton Auditorium, Fort Bragg, California. Located on Fir & Harold Streets. The concert on April 6, Saturday night will start at 8:00 pm and April 7, Sunday at 2:00 pm. For information you can email them at symphony@mcn.org or call 707-964-0898. or buy tickets online.

Stevenswood Spa Resort is only 15 minutes south, of Fort Bragg, and the Cotton Auditorium. Plan on coming to the coast and enjoy one of our suites, dinner and relax and get pampered in our spa.

For dinner phone 707-937-2810 or online at urban spoon.

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Back by popular demand, is the Peregrine Trio, will be playing on March 17 at 3:00 pm at Preston Hall, Mendocino. Burke Schuchman is the cellist with the golden tone, and Jannie Lo, the extraordinary pianist who thrilled audiences last year. This time they are performing as a trio with violin prodigy George Hayes. The trio will perform piano trios by Brahms and others. Last year they performed as the Ronen Trio, with flutist Yael Ronen. So the community is excited to have them back.

Burke Schuchman (cellist): Burke Schuchman is an acclaimed cellist and is a Bay Area resident. Mr Schuchman in 1996 founded the Palomarin Foundation which is dedicated to the promotion of chamber music through classes, workshops, and concerts. Cellist Schuchman has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in England, Europe, Israel, and the United States. Former principal cellist and soloist with the Sulzberger Solisten in Austria and with the Sacramento Symphony, and is the principal cellist of the Mendocino Festival Orchestra. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and at CSU Chico, and is the artistic director of the Palomarin Chamber Music Foundation. He coaches in the adult chamber music program at the Crowden School in Berkeley.

Jannie Lo (pianist): Pianist Jannie Lo is a winner of the 2011 Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concerto Competition. She is the youngest of the trio. Ms. Lo grew up in San Francisco, California when she started playing the piano at the age of three. She went on to study piano in Baltimore and in Freiburg, Germany.

George Hayes IV, Coach, Violin/Viola: A native of Northern California, George Hayes began is a student of William Barbini.  In addition to pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree at CSUS, Hayes has been a student teacher at the CSUS String Project and is Suzuki book one trained with Certification pending.  George Hayes is currently a violin instructor at Sacramento School of Music.

Tickets purchased in advance are $20 and may be purchased by mail by sending your check made to F.B.C.A. to:    F.B.C.A, 13110 Pomo Lane, Mendocino 95460. Please include a stamped return envelope. Tickets purchased at the door are $25. 

Stevenswood Spa Resort is only 2 minutes south, of the village of Mendocino, and Preston Hall. Plan on coming to the coast and enjoy one of our suites, dinner and relax and get pampered in our spa.

For dinner phone 707-937-2810 or online at urban spoon.

For lodging phone 707-937-2810 or online at reservations.

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The curtains are opening for the Mendocino Theatre Company’s 2013 Season

On the 36th season of continuous productions starting back on June 3, 1977 with the production of “The Visit”, The Mendocino Theatre Company is announcing its 2013 season. This year they will be presenting all 21st century American plays, including three finalist or winners of the Pulitzer Prize. These six playwrights represent the future of American theater. They tell timeless, American stories with both innovation and south in the tradition and caliber of Tennessee Williams, Bertolt Brecht, and Arthur Miller.

The first production this year will be: BOY GETS GIRL by Rebecca Gilma and Directed by Bob Cohen. Playing from March 14 to April 14.

From the writer of The Sweetest Swing in Baseball comes a grippingly suspenseful thriller both stirring and entertaining. Not since Wait Until Dark has an American play captured the attention of its audience so fiercely from beginning to end. Manhattan-based writer Theresa Bedell is in complete command of her successful professional life, until a casual blind date with a man named Tony leads to his unwieldy obsession. Theresa suddenly finds herself struggling to maintain control of not only her personal life, but her career, dignity, and very identity in the post-feminist world in which all of her successes were built. 

The second production: BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO by Rajiv Joseph and Directed by Felicia Freites. Playing from May 2 to May 26.

A tiger in the war-ravaged Baghdad Zoo is being guarded by two young soldiers: the steady, opportunistic Tom, and the brash, ready-for-action Kev. When the introduction of Uday Hussein’s gold-plated gun, a war trophy stolen by Tom, leads to the Tiger’s death, the ghost of the tiger remains to lead the audience through an existential journey in the streets of Baghdad among the ghosts of war both living and dead.   Known for Robin Williams’ tour de force performance as the tiger on Broadway in 2011 and as a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2010, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is a deeply spiritual comedy/drama about the nature of man and God in war. 

 The third production: THE 39 STEPS by Patrick Barlow and Directed by Ricci Dedola. Playing from June 6 to July 7.

Broadway’s longest-running comedy, and the winner of two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and the Laurence Olivier Award for the best new comedy of 2007, is The 39 Steps, a mile-a-minute comedy based on the Alfred Hitchcock film and the John Buchan novel of the same name.  Acted with just one man, one woman, and two clowns playing an estimated 250 roles between them, The 39 Steps is a highly physical satire featuring train chases, plane crashes, shadowy spies, and a love story to boot! One of the most inventive new comedies of the 21st century, and a sure to be audience favorite, The 39 Steps is a thrilling piece of theatre one part Hitchcock, and one part Naked Gun. 

The forth production: DOUBT: A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley and Directed by Sandra Hawthorne. Playing July 18 to August 18.

Set in 1964 against the backdrop of an America in the midst of change, a progressive young Priest’s conduct comes under question by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a veteran nun twice his age. As questions begin to plague her, Sister Aloysius finds herself consumed by doubt in an ancient institution that once provided the comforts of community, certainty, and faith.   Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt: A Parable is widely regarded as one of the most important and accomplished new plays of the 21st Century. 

The fifth production: IN THE NEXT ROOM by Sarah Ruhl and Directed by Ann Woodhead. Playing August 29 to September 29.

It is the beginning of the age of electricity, the awakening of scientific curiosity, and in the case of Mrs. Givings, the awakening of a quite different kind of curiosity as well. Lovingly devoted to her physician husband and newborn daughter, Catherine Givings notices strange sounds coming from her husband’s “operating theatre” in the next room. Desperately curious about her husband’s new invention for treating “hysteria” in women, Mrs. Givings sets out to find deeper satisfaction as both a mother and wife, but also as a woman. A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is an uproariously wild comedy that has audiences giggling from start to finish. While this “hysterical” comedy is truly Victorian, underneath the laughter is a poignant story about the nature of love that is very much relevant today. 

The sixth and last production of the year: TIME STANDS STILL by Donald Margulies and Directed by Betty Abramson. Playing October 10 to November 10.

From the writer of Collected Stories comes a touching and realistic story, delicately reflective of the tumultuous times in which we live. Sarah Goodwin, an acclaimed photojournalist, returns from a war zone with scars both physical and emotional. As she struggles to retain a challenging life of thrilling adventure and hard work, she finds herself presented with the choice of a more comfortable, conventional life with her loving partner James. For those who understand what it means to bring their work home, Time Stands Still is a deeply explorative human story about finding oneself at a crossroads, new beginnings, and the differences that give each of our lives color. 

 For tickets for any or all of these productions order online using this link, or phone the Box Office at 707-937-4477. Box Office hours are Tuesday – Wednesday Noon – 4:00 pm., and Thursday – Saturday Noon to showtime and Sunday 11:00 to 2:00 pm. The Box Office is closed Mondays.

Stevenswood Spa Resort is only 2 minutes south, of the village of Mendocino, and the Mendocino Art Center. Plan on coming to the coast and enjoy one of our suites, dinner and relax and get pampered in our spa.

For dinner phone 707-937-2810 or online at urban spoon.

For lodging phone 707-937-2810 or online at reservations.

For spa reservations phone 707-937-2810 or online at Indigo Eco-Spa.