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.
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 |