TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. — This week at Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) offers a little something for everyone!
Enjoy Festival Orchestra performances, a Chamber concert and a film screening, all within a few days of one another.
On Friday and Saturday nights, witness the GTMF debut of Chicago Lyric Opera Music Director Enrique Mazzola. After Verdi’s dramatic statement on the power of fate and Bloch’s poetic invocation of King Solomon performed by German-French cellist Nicolas Alstaedt, traverse the turbulent emotional landscape of Tchaikovsky’s final symphony. Did he foresee his own abrupt demise with this score?
Program
Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
Bloch: Schelomo
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”
Catch this program on Friday, August 1 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, August 2 at 6 p.m.
Join GTMF for a pre-concert talk an hour before each performance with Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich in the Barbara Furrer Goodman Memorial Garden near Walk Festival Hall’s north entrance. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.
This week’s Chamber music program on Wednesday, July 30, at 7 p.m. opens with Caroline Shaw’s Thousandth Orange, a minimalist gem full of color and rhythmic play by this Pulitzer-prize winning American composer. Stay for Ravel’s exquisite String Quartet in F Major and Fauré’s Piano Trio in D minor, offering warmth and refinement, before the emotional intensity of Barber’s String Quartet, whose famed Adagio reaches profound stillness and beauty.
Another treat for the week: Experience Meru, directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, on the big screen at Walk Festival Hall in the shadow of the Tetons. The award-winning documentary film, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this summer, will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jimmy Chin, moderated by film critic & GTMF General Manager Jeff Counts. The screening will be held on Thursday, July 31, at 7 p.m. in Walk Festival Hall. Tickets are $30 for general admission seating; student tickets are $5.
