Fortnightly Music Club

11/04/2021

Fortnightly’s second formal of the season this Saturday, November 6, at 3PM. Please join us! It will be held as always at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. The program will include works of Schubert, Brahms and de Falla. ***Attendees will be required to wear masks and show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test within the past 72 hours.***

10/26/2021

03/14/2020

03/08/2020

Tonight's concert has been CANCELLED by the Art Center because of the health situation. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

03/04/2020

***Tonight's concert has been CANCELLED by the Art Center because of the health situation***

02/04/2020

Hope you can make it to our next free concert this Sunday!

02/04/2020

Our next free public concert, this Sunday February 9 at 7pm, will be dedicated to Alice Sklar.

01/30/2020

Alice Jane Sklar
June 21, 1940—January 18, 2020

01/30/2020

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our co-president and a driving force in our organization, Alice Sklar. She was diagnosed with glioblastoma (stage 4, brain cancer tumors) in October 2019, and died at 7:30 in the evening on Saturday, January 18th, 2020, at Stanford Hospital Medical Center.

Alice was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up there with her parents and brother. She attended PS 95 elementary school, Music and Art High School, and New York City College. She married Alan Sklar and moved to Palo Alto. There she had three daughters. As her children grew, she returned to Santa Clara University in pursuit of a master’s degree in Marriage Family and Child Counselling.

She was 79 years old and lived in Palo Alto since 1970. Alice will be remembered as a loving wife and lifetime companion to Alan Sklar, a loyal friend, neighbor, musician, therapist, community leader, sister, mother, and grandmother.

Survivors include Alice’s brother Leonard Stanley, daughters and sons-in-law; Jessica and Steven Nimoy of Agoura, Calif., Emily and Daniel Wexler of Berkeley, Calif., and Naomi and Timothy Albertson of Reno, Nevada; and grandchildren, Trevor and Robert Nimoy and Cooper and Lola Albertson.

01/14/2020

Thanks to everyone who participated in our concert last Sunday. It was a lovely evening!

01/07/2020

The program for this Sunday's concert includes:

Beethoven's Sonata Op. 5, No. 2 in G minor for piano and cello, performed by Ching Shih (piano) and Walter Halvorsen (cello)

Nino Rota's Intermezzo for Viola and Piano and Darius Milhaud's Op. 240, Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano performed by Noriko Iwamoto (viola) and Richard Sogg (piano)

Beethoven's Op. 11, Trio in B-flat Major performed by (Jen Chang (piano), Eri Ishigaki (violin), and Jennifer Mathers (cello)

01/06/2020

Our next free concert is *this Sunday* January 12, at the usual time (7pm) and place (Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road). Hope you can come!

12/05/2019

Hope you can come!

11/23/2019

Our next free concert features music by Beethoven, Gershwin, and more! It is on Sunday December 8 at 7pm at the Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road. Hope to see you there!

11/22/2019

Just posted a few excerpts from our last public concert. Enjoy!

11/22/2019

https://vimeo.com/372757987/d28ad3128a

This is "FMC Nov 2019 Beethoven excerpt" by Walter Halvorsen on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

11/22/2019

https://vimeo.com/372761532/3332a9e0f6

This is "FMC Nov 2019 Gliere excerpt" by Walter Halvorsen on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

11/22/2019

https://vimeo.com/372953468/a0434dcd40

This is "FMC Nov 2019 Chausson excerpt" by Walter Halvorsen on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.