Green Music Center Garners Reputation as World-Class Concert Hall
It’s all about music and choices at Sonoma State University’s Donald and Maureen Green Music Center, a world-class performing arts complex in Sonoma County, California. Experience the true Sonoma County Wine Country lifestyle by selecting your desired blend of music, food, and beverages in this gorgeous natural setting.
The performance lineup for the Green Music Center’s venues can include symphony orchestras, jazz, bluegrass, cabaret, blues, recitals, soloists, world music, chamber music, dance, acrobats, comedy, and more. From October to May, the resident Santa Rosa Symphony presents a series of classical concerts in Weill Hall.
Enjoy a performance in the intimate 240-seat, cathedral-like Schroeder Hall, with its 1,248-pipe Brombaugh Opus 9 organ in the balcony above the stage. A typical concert season offers a wide variety of performances, including chamber music, pops, masterworks for pipe organ, cabaret, recitals, and more.
Or, experience a performance in the acclaimed 1,400-seat Joan and Sanford I Weill Concert Hall. Designed to replicate the intimacy and acoustics of both Vienna’s Musikverein and Symphony Hall in Boston and to match the aesthetics of Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Weill Hall features handcrafted beech-wood chairs, with seating on three levels. It’s considered to be one of the most acoustically superb concert venues in the world.
You can choose a seat in the hall, or during the summer season, the entire back wall of the hall opens, allowing seating on the landscaped and terraced Weill Lawn (increasing the concert capacity to 5,500). Choose tables and chairs or blankets on the lawn to kick back, relax, and enjoy the music and views of the rolling hills surrounding Rohnert Park and Santa Rosa. An excellent sound system and a massive screen let everyone enjoy the show as it unfolds inside Weill Hall.
Those enjoying summer shows from Weill Lawn can either pack their own picnic or pre-order an elegant boxed meal from iconic Boudin Bakery and wine from the university’s onsite catering.
Green Music Center has been crafted with an incredible eye for quality, from the acclaimed artists who perform to the 125-year-old olive trees in the courtyard, to the beautiful landscaping that surrounds the complex. Experience this focal point for the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Green Music Center, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, 707-664-4246
Written by Sonoma Insider Patricia Lynn Henley
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