Concert Schedule

Concert Schedule

Would Beethoven sell tickets to concerts at his house?

What might he think of the retail “value” of music in our big concert halls?

Seth Montfort

Performs

“CHILD PRODIGY, BOY GENIUS, MAN MASTER… HOPING NOT TO RUN OUT OF PURE GENIUS HE MIGHT HAVE TO MAKE DO WITH MERE MORTAL GENIUS” – Arts Council of Sonoma County

“Dazzling” – Contra Costa Times

“perfect interpreter for Gershwin” – San Francisco Chronicle

Concert and Events Schedule

Here are posters
Temple to the Sun 2 Temple to the Sun Concerts When You Want

Thursday, July 15, 7:30pm - Pianists Seth Montfort & Michael Arnowitt in Sebastopol
Mr. Arnowitt will perform selections of Bach, Schumann & Ligeti. Mr. Montfort will present selections of Chopin & Ravel and others. Center for the Arts, 6780. Depot Street $20 ($15, seniors & Students) For additional information contact 707.829.4797

Friday, July 16, 8pm - Pianists Seth Montfort & Michael Arnowitt in Guerneville
Mr. Arnowitt will perform Jazz and Free Improvisation. Mr. Montfort will play Montfort and Gershwin's solo piano transcription of Rhapsody in Blue. $10 - $20

Saturday, July 17, 8pm - Pianists Seth Montfort & Michael Arnowitt in Guerneville
Works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Villa-Lobos - $10 - $20

Classical pianist Michael Arnowitt is also an active jazz pianist. His recording Classical/Jazz, on the Musical Heritage Society label, was a unique program of jazz-influenced classical music and classically-influenced jazz, exploring the mutual influence of the two fields of music throughout the 20th century. The disc won praise from both the classical and jazz communities, including L.A. Jazz Scene. Arnowitt was the music director of “Ella Fitzgerald Night,” a concert for a 23-piece jazz ensemble featuring transcriptions he made of arrangements used by Ella on historic big band and combo recordings from 1939 to 1964. He has also presented concerts profiling jazz musicians such as Art Blakey, Bill Evans, and Billy Childs. His largest jazz effort was “The Five Chinese Elements,” an original full-concert length suite for trio based on the elements of earth, water, wood, metal, and fire. He has performed jazz at the famed Reduta Jazz Club as part of the 29th Prague International Jazz Festival, and in New York City at Hunter College. Michael Arnowitt’s varied and unique style of improvising features graceful transitions from “in” to “out” playing, where freer, more rhapsodic sections develop motifs from the original melody of the tune. The “in” portions of an improvisation provide stability and anchor episodes of ear-stimulating “out” adventures.

Seth Montfort & San Francisco Concerto Orchestra Announce the Grand Opening of the Music Doesn’t Lie (Film, Book & Theatre) Club

Here are posters for the events May 21 – 23
Indigenous Fridays Supernatural Saturdays Career City Sundays

Every Friday Saturday & Sunday in Guerneville
$40 weekend pass www.sfconcerto.org (707) 604-7600
The Composers’ House, 16375 4th Street, Guerneville, 95446

Join pianist Seth Montfort, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra and the local Theater Community to Explore Films, Music, Indigenous Culture, Politics and Theater!

Concerts and Much More Opening Women’s Weekend!

Indigenous Fridays - Grand Opening May 21

Celebrating The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmother’s new World Headquarters in Guerneville!

Indigenous Culture IS the Future!

7pm - 13 Indigenous Grandmother’s Movie For the Next 7 Generations - All Proceeds benefit the 13 Grandmothers. Suggested donation $5-10

9pm - Seth Montfort, piano performs Indigenous Influenced Virtuoso African, Amazonian, Carribean, Incan, Javanese, Mayan and Zuni Piano Music. $10

Supernatural Saturdays - Grand Opening - May 22

The Power Elite rules with money and influence but music rules through Supernatural Inspiration!

7pm - The Ruling Class – History Channel’s film, ApocalypseIsland - Though our Saturday films/books will focus mostly on current politics we are focusing first on an ancient civilization more in touch with the supernatural! Follow Montfort’s friend and future lecture recital collaborator, Archeologist Jim Turner, in this journey as he returns to where he first discovered an ancient Mayan monument at the only location in the Western Hemisphere to witness the final Total Solar Eclipse of the Mayan Great Cycle in 2012. Jim will phone in live to answer your questions about his film and the Island! $10

9pm - Piano Seance - Seth Montfort performs “The American Indianists” - Virtuoso Piano music by Farwell, Cadman, Troyer, Cowell, Sas, Villa-Lobos & Montfort’s Temple To The Sun. $10

Career City Sundays

7pm, Sunday, May 23 - What, Guerneville, the perfect city to start International music and theater careers? Yes, Guerneville IS THE Sonoma County International Tourist Getaway for the Arts – Come watch it grow!

The 25-piece San Francisco Concerto Orchestra with 5-time Grammy Nominee Composer, Suzanne Ciani, piano and internationally acclaimed performers, Viviana Guzman, flute and belly dancing, Janis Lieberman, horn, and Seth Montfort, piano and composer. Works by Ciani, Amy Beach, Saint Saens, others followed by a showing of an episode of Slings and Arrows about the life of a theater company and the not-for-profit Arts World. Then musicians and actors are invited to join the orchestra and local theater community to perform open mic style music and theater after the concert. For over two decades hundreds of musicians have used Montfort’s unusual SF Bay Area Events to land gigs and paid jobs. It’s time to see what the theater community can do with this! $20

If you clicked through the Inside Out maze and finally landed on this page, the point of all that was not to show you how whacky and different I am. It’s just that so much lip service is given to “thinking outside the box” that the real value of ACTUALLY thinking outside the box gets lost in some process most people never intended to GET BOXED INTO!

“Oh my God, what if he is sold out or I can’t get a seat?” Relax, I do not live in that World at home. Aren’t you tired of living that way all the time too? Don’t worry if there is no concert on the schedule below that fits your schedule. Just call or email and let me know when YOU would like the concert to be and it will all work out. This is a small town and always pretty especially in the rain. No it is not a particularly dazzling hall except for its interesting mural, fine acoustics, pianos, concerts and innovative events. Oh, and the best place I have found in my 2,500 concerts to date for all extraneous distractions to fade away so you can get lost in the music. That IS what you love about music isn’t it? Not how many “tickets" were sold or how well marketed the concert was? Or do you really not like music only consumerism?

At my piano concerts I often play my choices AND YOURS from a list of over 20 hours memorized repertoire from Mozart, Chopin, Gershwin & Joplin, standard & unusual European classics, Virtuoso Jungle Music & Exotic ragtime from all over the world!


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