• Childress Conducts Elgar

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

    Stephanie Childress returns to the podium to lead a concert featuring Elgar’s Enigma Variations. His best-known work, it starts off with a pensive four-note melody which Elgar then weaves into 14 variations. In each variation, he imagines how one of 13 of his friends might turn the theme into a different melody inspired in some way by their personality. The first variation is based on his wife, Alice, and the 14th and final variation is Elgar’s own. It’s an orchestral masterpiece.

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  • Upbeat with Alasdair– Brahms’s A German Requiem

    The Community Library, John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall 415 Spruce Avenue, Ketchum, ID, United States

    In this edition of Upbeat with Alasdair, Alasdair Neale discusses Brahms’s largest composition, A German Requiem. Notwithstanding its title, Brahms’s Requiem is a work full of messages of comfort and hope. This summer, on August 9, the American Festival Chorus, featuring soprano Christina Pier and baritone Benjamin Appl, will join the Festival Orchestra to perform this this remarkable piece.

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  • Afternoon Pavilion Concert

    This concert features intermediate and beginning students and ensembles: Prelude Strings, Prelude and Concert Choirs, Philharmonia Orchestra, and piano ensembles as well as string, woodwind, brass, and percussion ensembles.

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