Munching with Mozart

Live classical music concert

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.

Low Notes on a High Level

Neil Fairbairn, bassoon and Ivan Rosenblum, piano

Sonata III in F Major

Johann Ernst Galliard    

Largo – Allegro – Adagio – Spiritoso

Sonata in G Minor

Fryderyk Chopin

Largo – Scherzo Con Brio

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Arlan/Harburg

arranged by Keith Jarrett

piano solo

Sonata in F Major

William Hurlstone

Ballade-Moderato – Allegretto

Sonate Pour Basson Op. 168

Camille Saint-Saëns

Allegretto moderato – Allegro scherzando

The Musicians

Ivan Rosenblum taught education and music at U.C.S.C. from 1970-80. He has a B.A. from Queens College, N.Y.C., and a Masters and Doctorate from Harvard University. He studied piano and chamber music with Robert Hagopian and Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio. He also studied composition with Hugo Weisgall and Vittorio Rieti. Ivan’s compositions have been performed at the University of California, Santas Cruz, the Oakland Museum of Art, the Berkeley Repertory Theater, and New Music Works, as well as on radio stations KPFA, KQED and KUSP. Ivan is well known to Santa Cruz audiences through his appearances with the Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Distinguished Artist Series, and New Music Works. As an active Santa Cruz piano teacher and chamber music coach, Ivan previously directed the Chamber Players’ Celebrating Youth Chamber Music Program.

Neil Fairbairn studied bassoon with Sherman Walt of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and William Waterhouse of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. A freelance musician in Britain for twenty years, he performed and toured regularly with Britain’s Royal National Theater. Returning to the Greater Boston area, Neil taught bassoon and coached chamber music at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He  was a member of the chamber ensemble Music at Eden’s Edge and the wind quintet, Solar Winds. An author and educational consultant, he was associate editor of The Music Makers, a biographical encyclopedia of musicians. His books on non-musical subjects include A Traveller’s Guide to the Kingdoms of Arthur and A Brief History of Gardening. Since moving to Santa Cruz in 2019, Neil has performed with Espressivo, I Cantori di Carmel, New Music Works, and the Santa Cruz Chorale.

Coming Soon

June 26: Unaccompanied: Joel Schaefer, cello

July 17: Romances: Carol Panofsky , oboe and Lynn Kidder, piano

For more information about the series contact:

Carol Panofsky • 831-566-2954 • panofsky@cruzio.com