A popular monthly series of free noon-time concerts in the Downtown Branch meeting room. Pieces and performers vary from month to month. Your are welcome to bring your lunch, and please avoid crunchy food items. Munching With Mozart and Friends is sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries and the Santa Cruz County Music Teachers' Association. For more information about the series, to make a reservation for your class or other large group, or to inquire about performing, contact Carol Panofsky by phone at 831-426-3238 or by email at panofsky@cruzio.com

B is for Bach, Beethoven, Britten, and Bartok!

Yosef Feinberg, cellist and Ivan Rosenblum, pianist 

Program

Adagio Johann Sebastian Bach

Allegro ma non tanto 

from Sonate Nr. 1 in G Major

Canto Primo: Sostenuto e largamente Benjamin Britten

Fuga: Andante moderato 

from Suite #1 Op. 72

Dances with Sticks                Béla Bartók

Waistband Dance   

Stamping Dance

Hornpipe Dance

Quick Dance

from Rumanian Folk Dances

Adagio sostenuto ed espressivo  Ludwig van Beethoven

Allegro molto piú tosto presto

from Sonate in G minor Op.5 Nr.2

The Artists

Cellist Yosef Feinberg is honored to be performing in his hometown of Santa Cruz; the current stop on his musical path as a Master’s student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he hopes to explore his interests in composing, arranging, and collaborating. He especially enjoys searching the lesser- known corners of musical literature. Besides playing in the Santa Cruz Symphony, Yosef has performed with other well-known ensembles across California. His renewed passion is reading, especially science fiction and fantasy.

Ivan Rosenblum, pianist/composer/teacher has a B.A. from Queens College and an M.A. and Ed.D from Harvard University. He taught Arts Education and Music at UCSC in the 1970’s and studied piano and chamber music with Robert Hagopian and Menachem Pressler. Ivan is well known to Santa Cruz audiences through his appearances with The Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Cabrillo’s Distinguished Artist Series and New Musik Works. He teaches piano and coaches chamber-music here in Santa Cruz, where he organized and directed the Chamber Players’ Celebrating Youth Chamber Music Program for several years.