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Allan Pollack, Artistic
Director, has
been Artistic
Director and
Conductor of
the Mendocino
Music Festival
for the last
twenty-two
years. He has
led both
orchestra and
chorus through
memorable
performances of
the Verdi Requiem,
the Brahms Requiem,
Beethoven's
9th, Mahler's Das Lied von
der Erde,
Stravinsky's Rite of
Spring and
seventeen fully
staged operas.
With a Ph.D. in
composition
from UC
Berkeley,
Pollack has
composed a
variety of
pieces for the
Festival over
the years,
among which are The Spiral
Dance for
chorus and
orchestra, Two
Movements in Time for
orchestra, From
the Song of
Songs for
soprano and
orchestra, A
Summer Evening
at the
Boonville
Fair for
orchestra, Albion
Song, Jazz
Concerto for
Saxophone, a
Vibraphone
Concerto, and a
String Quartet.
As a jazz
musician, he
leads the
fabulous
Festival Big
Band and
sometimes even
takes a solo on
saxophone
himself. In
addition to his
Festival
responsibilities,
Pollack has a
full studio of
private
students, is
the Music
Director and
Conductor of
Symphony of the
Redwoods (for
the last twenty
years), and was
appointed
Artistic
Director of the
Camellia
Symphony in
Sacramento
three years
ago. |
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Susan
Waterfall received her
early education
at the
University of
Michigan and
Chicago Musical
College. She
studied with
Ivan Moravec in
Chicago and
Prague and
subsequently
with Karl
Ulrich
Schnabel.
Enriching her
understanding
of music in
culture, she
lived several
years in Madras
studying and
performing
South Indian
Classical Music
with the
legendary
Dhanammal
family. She has
presented
numerous
lecture
recitals on
Olivier
Messiaen's
monumental
piano cycle,
Vingt regards
sur L'Enfant
Jesus.
Co-Founder of
the Mendocino
Music Festival
and Director of
its Piano
Series, she
has created
multi-media
scripted
settings for
chamber music:
"Voyage a
Paris" (2001);
"Argentina:
Gauchos and
Tangos" (2002);
""Bartok's
Women" (2003);
"Tales of a
Parisian Salon"
chronicling the
fascinating
life and times
of Winnaretta
Singer,
Princesse
de Polignac
(2004); "Young
Brahms"
bringing to
life the music
and friendships
of Brahms
in his late
teens and
twenties,
particularly
his
relationship
with Robert and
Clara Schumann
(2005); and
"Scandalous
Music"
exploring the
early
20th Century
Parisian
milieu of
Debussy, Satie,
Ravel, and
Stravinsky
(2006). |
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| 2007 - 2008 Board of Directors | ||||
President: |
Barbara Faulkner |
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Vice President: |
Roger Schwartz | |||
Secretary: |
Susan Weaver | |||
Treasurer: |
Tess Albin-Smith | |||
| Board Members: | Otto Graham Jerry Greenberg Jim Havlena Mike Issel Shirley Issel Marcia Lotter Allan Pollack Arlene Reiss Guenter Riegler Sandy Riegler Susan Waterfall |
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History The Mendocino Music Festival was established in 1986. It was the dream of local musicians Walter Green, Allan Pollack, and music lovers to present fine music with a mix of professional and local musicians, and the opportunity for classical music education on the Mendocino Coast. With the cooperation of the community and the Department of Parks, the first festival was presented in a tent on the Mendocino Headlands State Park in July, 1987. The tent seated 400 people and the orchestra consisted of 56 musicians. Four orchestra and four chamber concerts were presented. In 1989, a fully staged opera was added. In 1992, a Young Musicians Scholarship Program began, a program that continues today with a name change to the Emerging Artists Program. The Piano Series began in 1996 and presents master pianists in an intimate daytime lecture/recital format. The Village Chamber Concerts began in 2005 and feature local musicians in daytime concerts at different venues in Mendocino and Fort Bragg. In 2008 the Mendocino Music Festival will present fifteen evenings of music including three orchestra concerts, two evenings of opera, two chamber concerts, jazz, folk, world music and Big Band. Three of these concerts will include dance performances. The main performance tent has more than 800 seats and the orchestra consists of approximately 80 musicians. There will be four Piano Series lecture/recitals, four Village Chamber Concerts, a Children’s Matinee, an Emerging Artists concert and a special jazz/pop concert on the last Saturday of the festival, for a total of 22 concerts between Saturday, July 12 and Saturday, July 26. All orchestra and opera rehearsals are open to the public free of charge. Each year we put up a large tent and build a symphony hall from the ground up at the Mendocino Headlands State Park, Ford House Museum and Visitor Center grounds. We have established a year round presence in the town of Mendocino with our office in the Old Bank Building on the corner of Main and Kastens Streets and with concerts, dinner parties and events throughout the year. Our national and international reputation as a respected summer music festival has helped give the town of Mendocino a cultural identity. We always work to build strong economic ties with the business community and individual donors. We have developed a large volunteer network of over 200 people that help out at the festival and at our year round events. We became charter members in the Mendocino Coast Performance Art Production Alliance (PAPA) in 2000. We share storage space, set pieces, costumes, tools and technical expertise with other local performing arts non-profit organizations. |
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email: music@mendocinomusic.com |
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Phone: 707-937-2044 Box Office: 707-937-4041 Fax: 707-937-1045 |
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