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SUMMARY:Opening Night with Orion Weiss
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 PM\nLawn Paver Bar \n\nJohn Stafford Smith\nThe Star-Spangled Banner \nGioachino Rossini\nOverture to La scala di seta (The Silken Staircase) \nLudwig van Beethoven\nPiano Concerto No. 1 in C Major\, Op. 15 \n\nBeethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is actually the second one he composed – scholars speculate that he chose to publish it first in order to knock the socks off his Viennese audience. He almost certainly accomplished that: in 1798\, this would have been the biggest concerto ever performed in terms of orchestra size\, and the piano cadenza in the first movement alone is incredible. Orion Weiss brings this brilliant\, virtuosic\, and playful piece to life with the Festival Chamber Orchestra. A miniature masterpiece by Gioacchino Rossini (of Barber of Seville fame) opens the program–the festive overture to his opera The Silken Staircase. \n\nAlasdair’s take on the program:\nWhile Beethoven’s 3rd\, 4th\, and 5th piano concertos are performed more frequently\, the 1st is no less brilliant; It’s sometimes inventive\, sometimes soulful\, and frequently witty. \n 
URL:https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/opening-night-with-orion-weiss/
LOCATION:Sun Valley Pavilion\, 300 Dollar Rd\, Sun Valley\, Idaho\, 83353\, United States
CATEGORIES:Summer concert
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SUMMARY:Childress Conducts Beethoven
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 PM\nLawn Paver Bar \n\nBenjamin Britten\nSimple Symphony\, Op. 4 \nLudwig van Beethoven\nSymphony No. 1 in C Major\, Op. 21 \n\nAs one might expect\, Beethoven’s first symphony follows many of the traditions and “rules” inherited from Haydn and Mozart–the symphonic masters of the day. Even so\, Beethoven’s unique voice and defiance of the expectations of his time shine through in many ways—starting with the opening chord (which dodged the symphony’s C Major key that audiences would have expected) and continuing through an unusually slow introduction to the finale. Stephanie Childress begins the program with Britten’s Simple Symphony\, an energetic and cheerful work whose movements include titles such as “Playful Pizzicato” and “Frolicsome Finale.” \n\nAlasdair’s take on the program:\nBeethoven’s first symphony was the first piece I ever conducted in public\, when I was 15; I’m looking forward to being in the audience and seeing Stephanie Childress work her magic with this old favorite of mine. \n 
URL:https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/childress-conducts-beethoven/
LOCATION:Sun Valley Pavilion\, 300 Dollar Rd\, Sun Valley\, Idaho\, 83353\, United States
CATEGORIES:Summer concert
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SUMMARY:Orion Weiss and Festival Musicians Play Tchaikovsky and Dohnányi
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 PM\nLawn Paver Bar \n\nPiotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky\nTheme and Variations in F Major\, Op. 19\, No. 6    \nErnst von Dohnányi \nPiano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor\, Op. 1 \n\nPianist Orion Weiss opens this chamber concert with Tchaikovsky’s brilliant\, technically demanding\, yet often overlooked Theme and Variations. Inspired by French tunes\, it showcases Tchaikovsky’s skill in taking a charming\, graceful theme and creating eleven inventive variations ranging from melancholic to playful\, while ending in a powerful finale. Following\, Weiss joins Festival musicians for Hungarian composer Ernö Dohnányi’s first Piano Quintet\, a work that received perhaps the highest phrase Brahms ever offered to another composer: “I could not have written it better myself.” Brahms even played the piano part in the piece’s first performance. \n\nAlasdair’s take on the program:\nLike many of you\, I suspect\, I’ll be hearing all of the music on this concert live for the very first time.  But we’re in very good hands\, and I know that my friends and colleagues on stage will create a magical evening of music for us all. \n 
URL:https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/orion-weiss-and-festival-musicians-play-chamber-music/
LOCATION:Sun Valley Pavilion\, 300 Dollar Rd\, Sun Valley\, Idaho\, 83353\, United States
CATEGORIES:Summer concert
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SUMMARY:Strauss and Mozart
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 PM\nLawn Paver Bar \n\nRichard Strauss\nMetamorphosen\, A Study for 23 Solo Strings \nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart\nSymphony No. 39 in E-flat Major\, K. 543 \n\nRichard Strauss’s Metamorphosen is a profoundly mournful and beautiful work; written for 23 strings in the final days of World War II\, it is the composer’s lament for the destruction of\, in his words\, “Germany’s 2\,000 years of cultural evolution.” Its concluding theme is a musical homage to the funeral march from Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony. Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 is the first of his final three great symphonies\, one for which “refined elegance” might be an apt descriptor. It’s a rare treat for clarinet lovers: with oboes absent from Mozart’s score\, the clarinets take on an unusually prominent role. \n\nAlasdair’s take on the program:\nThis is a concert of darkness and light—Strauss’s Metamorphosen is a wounded cry from an old man surrounded by desolation and loss\, while Mozart’s 39th symphony is bathed in a wonderful autumnal glow. \n 
URL:https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/strauss-and-mozart/
LOCATION:Sun Valley Pavilion\, 300 Dollar Rd\, Sun Valley\, Idaho\, 83353\, United States
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