Barbara Heninger is a community contributor, writer, and performing artist based in the Bay Area. She is deeply involved in regional performing arts:
- South Bay Musical Theatre (SBMT): She is a dedicated fixture at SBMT, having served as a board member, past chairperson, and multi-talented contributor who has appeared in nearly two decades of shows as an actor/ensemble member, stagehand, and props designer.
- Music Scholarship & Writing: Through BarbWired Communications, her program notes have served as valuable educational and reference guides for classical concertgoers.
Redwood Symphony Program Notes by Barbara Heninger
- Thomas Adès
- J.S. Bach
- Samuel Barber
- Béla Bartók
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Hector Berlioz
- Leonard Bernstein
- Johannes Brahms
- Benjamin Britten
- Emmanuel Chabrier
- Aaron Copland
- John Corigliano
- Elvis Costello
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Claude Debussy
- Antonin Dvořák
- Edward Elgar
-
Duke Ellington
- Black, Brown, and Beige (arr. Jeff Tyzik)
- Night Creature (arr. Ellington/Henderson)
- Lukas Foss
- Vivian Fung
- George Gershwin
- Philip Glass
- Mikhail Glinka
- Osvaldo Golijov
- George Frideric Handel
- Lou Harrison
- Joseph Haydn
- Gustav Holst
- Leoš Janáček
- Aram Ilyich Khachaturian
- Gyorgy Ligeti
- Witold Lutosławski
- Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Olivier Messiaen
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Carl Nielsen
- Tobias Picker
- Sergey Prokofiev
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Maurice Ravel
- Steve Reich
- Ottorino Respighi
- Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov
-
Joaquin Rodrigo
- Concierto de Aranjuez
- Fantasia para un gentilhombre (arr. James Galway)
- Gioachino Rossini
-
Nino Rota
- A Nino Rota Medley (arr. Henry Mancini)
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Peter Schickele
-
Howard Shore
- Symphonic Suite from “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (arr. John Whitney)
- Dmitry Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Johann Jr. Strauss
- Richard Strauss
- Igor Stravinsky
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Joan Tower
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Giuseppe Verdi
- William Walton
- Kurt Weill
