Chamber concert at the church

Next season, August 12-September 6 2009, is the 30th season for the Festival and we are already at work planning a special season of memorable performances featuring some old Festival friends.

Eliot Fisk will perform a solo guitar recital and appear in chamber ensembles.

And we will celebrate music from New York for an entire week, called "I Love New York," with music by composers who lived in or were inspired by New York, including Michael Torke, Nathaniel Dett, Samuel Barber, Virgil Thompson, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The centerpiece will be a world premiere by young composer Carter Pann that celebrates life in Central New York. This lively work - for violin, clarinet, cello, piano, and narrator - will be based on original poems submitted in 2007 by members of our community. The week will conclude with a magical evening of Broadway tunes under the night sky at Brook Farm.

Come celebrate our 30th season of world-class music by the lake. The 2009 season runs from Wednesday, August 12 to Saturday, September 5. Check back early next year for more details on what is sure to be magical musical look back and forward.

2008 IN REVIEW

Take a dash of jazz played by the Imani Winds and the Turtle Island Quartet.

Add a week of wordplay: Schubert's "Death and the Maiden," Schoenberg's "Transfigured Night," Barber's "Knoxville Summer of 1915."

Skip back in time to turn-of-the-century Paris and Vienna, the time of Webern, Mahler, Franck, Vaughn Williams, and Elgar.

Request some of your favorite pieces of chamber music and hear them played: Beethoven, Schubert, Arensky, Joan Tower, a Brandenburg Concerto, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.

And you have a recipe for the four-week musical feast that was our 2008 season.

We renewed acquaintances with some old friends - the Miro Quartet, baritone Randall Scarlata, violinist Tai Murray, and conductor Peter Bay. We welcomed some new friends - pianists Joel Fan and Adam Nieman, cellists Alexis Pia Gerlach and Julie Albers, and violinist Harumi Rhodes.

We saw more than 300 people attend a free FamilyFest concert at which the Imani Winds quintet showed how "Music Is Fun." We heard the Grammy winning Turtle Island Quartet present another free Community Concert. And we reveled in the sound of First Presbyterian Church's Casavant Freres pipe organ in another stunning recital by David Higgs.

It was truly a season in which music transported its listeners to places they'd not been before. If you couldn't make the trip, you can catch up with these reviews of some of this summer's concerts. Click here for more information.

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Concert at the church

If you enjoyed the sounds of any of this year's offerings, if we missed you in our audience but you still like the scope of what we offer, or if you're looking forward to celebrating our 30th season & help us continue to present world-class music by lake. To make your gift now to the Festival, click here.