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Mozart playing the piano and a table with cookies and coffee next to him

Munching with Mozart

Live classical music concert

2026-03-20 12:10:00 2026-03-20 12:50:00 America/Los_Angeles Munching with Mozart A popular monthly series of free noon-time concerts at the Downtown Branch. Pieces and performers vary from month to month. Bring your lunch and enjoy some music! Downtown Branch - Community Room

Friday, March 20
12:10pm - 12:50pm

Add to Calendar 2026-03-20 12:10:00 2026-03-20 12:50:00 America/Los_Angeles Munching with Mozart A popular monthly series of free noon-time concerts at the Downtown Branch. Pieces and performers vary from month to month. Bring your lunch and enjoy some music! Downtown Branch - Community Room

Downtown Branch

Community Room

A popular monthly series of free noon-time concerts at the Downtown Branch. Pieces and performers vary from month to month. Bring your lunch and enjoy some music!

For more information about the series contact: Carol Panofsky • 831-566-2954 • panofsky@cruzio.com

MUNCHING WITH MOZART AND FRIENDS is sponsored by The Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries

and the Santa Cruz County Music Teachers’ Association of California.

It is a monthly series of free noon-time concerts at the Downtown Branch.

Musical Bon-Bons

Sebastian Stock, voice and piano

Mary Jane Cope, piano


Frederic Chopin

Mazurka in A minor, op. 17 no. 4.


Franz Schubert

Three Songs on texts by Goethe  

Jägers Abendlied (Hunter’s Evening Song),  op. 3 no. 4 (1816)

Nähe des Geliebten (Close to the Beloved), op. 5 no. 2 (1815)

Der Fischer (The Fisherman), op. 5 no. 3 (1815)


Erik Satie

Gymnopedie No. 1(1888)    

Gnossienne No. 3 (1890)  


Elena Katz-Chernin

From Unsent Love Letters:  Meditations on Erik Satie (c. 2017)    

Unsent Love Letters    

Behind Your Pearls


Lauryn Bomse

From Bodies in Motion:  11 Oscillations from the Observable Universe (c. 2025)    

Oscillation No. 3:  Zygote

Oscillation No. 6:  Oxytocin


Robert Schumann

Gartenmelodie, op. 85 no. 3    


As a child, Sebastian Stock studied piano with Mary Jane Cope and sang in the Cabrillo Youth Chorus.  He holds a B.A. in Choral Music from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and is currently an assistant conductor with the Cabrillo Youth Chorus.  Additionally, he serves as pianist for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Soquel and St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Scotts Valley. Sebastian recently appeared in the Cabrillo Stage production Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Victim 1.


Mary Jane Cope holds a B.A. degree in music from Ohio Dominican University and an M.M. with honors in piano performance from the Indiana University School of Music. A champion of new music and the music of women composers, she has performed widely as soloist and chamber musician both locally and abroad and in presentations with her late husband, renowned composer and author David Cope. She was co-founder of the fundraising chamber music series, Mission Concerts, has premiered a number of works, and is recorded on the Opus One and Centaur labels. Mary Jane retired in 2013 from UCSC, where she served on the piano faculty for over 30 years. She maintains a private teaching studio in Santa Cruz, where she teaches piano and piano pedagogy and coaches chamber music and piano ensemble.

Coming Soon

March 20: Rising Stars Santa Cruz County Music Teachers’ Association of California winners

April 17: Jazz Renata Bratt and Fiends

For more information about the series contact: Carol Panofsky • 831-566-2954 • panofsky@cruzio.com

AGE GROUP: | Adults 18+ years |

EVENT TYPE: | Music |

Downtown Branch

Phone: 831-427-7707
Branch manager
James Lee

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