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The Santa Barbara Music Club, the largest year-round concert series in Santa Barbara County, celebrates its 50th year! The program for Saturday, January 11, 3:00 pm, features works by traditional and contemporary composers: Dohnanyi, Saxon, Enescu, Valinsky, Brahms, and Reinecke. The free concert is located at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu Street at Garden. For more information visit www.SBMusicClub.org.

The SANTA BARBARA MUSIC CLUB, the largest year-round concert series in Santa Barbara County, celebrates its 50th year of presenting its stellar concert series! Featured in its Saturday afternoon concerts are outstanding performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles.

On Saturday, October 19 at 3 p.m. the SANTA BARBARA MUSIC CLUB opens its 2019-2010 season, celebrating 50 years of presenting its stellar series of free concerts of beautiful classical music! Featured at this opening concert are two internationally renowned artists, pianist Betty Oberacker and clarinetist David Singer, performing a program termed “Apotheosis,” meaning a grouping of works that represent the summation of a composer’s musical style.

At 3 PM on Saturday, June 1, at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St., the Santa Barbara Music Club will present two concerts featuring winners of the 2019 Scholarship Auditions. Admission is Free. 

These gala concerts will showcase superbly talented local students who have been awarded prizes made possible by the Santa Barbara Music Club's generous donors. These wonderfully inspiring programs will feature masterworks by beloved composers. 

On Saturday, May 4 at 3 p.m. the Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of beautiful classical-music concerts. This afternoon’s roster features the Wenzel Pichl Duo No. 1 in C Major performed by violist Ray Tischer and cellist Jeannot Maha'a. Next, soprano Takako Wakita and pianist Betty Oberacker perform three nineteenth-century settings of the “Ave Maria” text by Charles Gounod, Luigi Luzzi, and Pietro Mascagni, concluded by the famous “Song to the Moon” from Antonín Dvořák’s opera Rusalka.

On Saturday, April 6 at 3 p.m. the Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of beautiful classical-music concerts. This afternoon, the Westmont Chamber Singers will perform the following works under director Grey Brothers: Felices ter by Randall Thompson; “Mary Hynes,”Reincarnations, by Samuel Barber; “Quando son più lontan,” Madrigali: Six "Fire Songs" on Italian Renaissance Poems, by Morten Lauridsen; “The Ol' Chisholm Trail,” Western Songs, by Libby Larsen; and Bésame mucho by Consuelo Velázquez, arranged by Julio Morales.

On Saturday, March 9 at 3 p.m. the Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful Classical music. This afternoon, violist Rodney Wirtz and composer-pianist Paolo Tatafiore offer a program of “Retro Works.” This program features works that rely heavily on historical models for inspiration, structure, and even genre but with a bold, modernized style and sound. On today’s roster are Tatafiore’s Variations for Viola and Piano and Frédéric Chopin’s Sonata for Piano in Bb Minor, Op. 35.

On Saturday, February 9 at 3 p.m. the Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful Classical music. This afternoon’s program features an ensemble cast of performers: pianists Allen Bishop and Paula Hatley, bassoonists Simon Knight and Paul Mori, flutist Sherylle Englander, clarinetist Per Elmfors, oboist Adelle Rodkey, and violinist Claude-Lise Lafranque. Each performer contributes to a broad array of chamber-music pieces spanning almost two centuries.

On Saturday, December 1 at 3 p.m. the Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful Classical music. The program features works that reconcile old and new, nostalgia and progression: J.S. Bach’s Sonata in D for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1048; Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in Eb, Op. 47; and Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances arranged for two pianos. This concert will be held at First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu (at Garden), Santa Barbara. Admission is free.