daily festival recaps
- Music@Menlo Wraps Up Spectacular Sixth Season (August 08)
- Voices of Our Time (August 07)
- "without whom we would be mute" (August 06)
- Just Another Day at Music@Menlo (August 05)
- Private Music Made Public (August 04)
- Modernist Marathon (August 03)
- The Musical Imagination (August 03)
- Delicious Dissonance (August 01)
- What Ithaka Means (August 01)
- Romantic Cadence (July 30)
- Brahms the Progressive (July 30)
- "Vissi d'arte..." (July 29)
- "...and all the world is fresh and bright again." (July 27)
- Festive Day, Romantic Evening (July 27)
- Open House (July 25)
- "Origins of Modern String Playing" and Today's Rising Stars (July 25)
- Classical Bookends (July 23)
- Lesser Gives More (July 22)
- Fame is the Spur (July 22)
- Yes! (and Bird! and Bach!) (July 20)
- Baroque Heroics (July 19)
- Towards Bach (July 18)
- A Grand Beginning (July 17)
Open House
Posted: July 25
Having wrapped up its exploration of the Classical period on Friday night, Music@Menlo heads this weekend into the Romantic era. But first, the festival presents its annual Open House. Saturday’s schedule of free events begins with a Q&A Coffee with the Artistic Directors in the Festival Welcome Center at 8:30 a.m. The day also features a number of open rehearsals, including a preview of the summer’s next Carte Blanche Concert: at 9:30 a.m., pianist Wu Han, violinist Philip Setzer, and cellist David Finckel will run through the piano trios of Franz Schubert in Stent Family Hall. Open House day also includes a Cafe Conversation with 2008 Visual Artist Doug Glovaski (12:00 noon) and the season’s first Koret Young Performers Concert (5:30 p.m.). The day culminates with the season’s second Encounter, “Nostalgia is Not Enough: What is Romantic?” led by Michael Steinberg (7:30 p.m., Martin Family Hall; tickets required).