Winter Season concert

Argyros Performing Arts Center 120 Main St South, Ketchum, ID, United States

The Sun Valley Music Festival presents its fifth Winter Season, featuring Mussorgskyā€™s beloved Pictures at an Exhibition, one of the most popular works in all classical music. Itā€™s a piece youā€™ll enjoy whether youā€™re hearing it for the first time or the fiftieth. For these concerts, a sparkling arrangement for brass and percussion captures the power and emotion of the original. Music Director Alasdair Neale will conduct the performances, which will also feature a series of short works showcasing the beauty and range of each instrument in the brass and percussion sections. Note: repertoire will be the same for each Winter Season performance.

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Winter Season concert

Argyros Performing Arts Center 120 Main St South, Ketchum, ID, United States

The Sun Valley Music Festival presents its fifth Winter Season, featuring Mussorgskyā€™s beloved Pictures at an Exhibition, one of the most popular works in all classical music. Itā€™s a piece youā€™ll enjoy whether youā€™re hearing it for the first time or the fiftieth. For these concerts, a sparkling arrangement for brass and percussion captures the power and emotion of the original. Music Director Alasdair Neale will conduct the performances, which will also feature a series of short works showcasing the beauty and range of each instrument in the brass and percussion sections. Note: repertoire will be the same for each Winter Season performance.

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Opening Night: Orli Shaham and Delights & Dances

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United States

For opening night, ā€œbrilliant pianistā€ Orli Shaham (The New York Times) returns to Sun Valley to perform Ravelā€™s beautiful and jazz-influenced Piano Concerto in G Major. Continuing the jazzy theme, the program also includes Delights & Dances, a rhythmic and soulful composition by Academy Award-nominated American composer Michael Abels. The Season opens with The Star-Spangled Banner, of course, followed by Rossiniā€™s Overture to The Barber of Seville.

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Beethoven’s Second Symphony

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United States

Beethovenā€™s Symphony No. 2 stands out for its upbeat enthusiasm, a quality it offers in abundance despite the composerā€™s advancing deafness when he wrote it. Brimming with extremes and surprises, the piece exhibits an exuberance and cheerfulness not heard again untilā€”perhapsā€”his Ode to Joy in the ninth symphony. The concert opens with Wagnerā€™s Siegfried Idyll, a piece he wrote for his wife, Cosima. Wagner hired a small group of musicians to play the piece in the front hallway of his house to awaken her on her birthday morning.

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