Meet the Festival Fellows: eight aspiring professional musicians who receive coaching and performance opportunities through the Festival and its guest artists.
Florence Price, Adoration Since the discovery of a major cache of her works in 2009, Florence Price (1887-1953) has been the subject of a significant revival and reappraisal in concert halls around the globe. Though much interest has centered on her three surviving...
Vivian Fung, Prayer The Edmonton-born, Juilliard-trained composer Vivian Fung has often followed her musical curiosity to far corners of the globe, whether traveling to Indonesia to study and absorb Balinese gamelan sounds or to southwest China to explore folk songs...
Carl Nielsen, Wind Quintet, Op.43 By turns vivid, languorous and lighthearted, Carl Nielsen’s Wind Quintet is a treasured example of the composer’s offbeat genius. Inspiration for the piece came one evening in 1921 when the Danish composer placed a call to...
Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”), Op. 4 If ever there was to be theme music for turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht would surely fit the bill. The darkly romantic string sextet, later...
John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Decades before John Adams was, to quote the New York Times, “our reigning master of orchestral writing,” he was emerging from the trenches of minimalism, exploring a more playful and Technicolor version of the...
Ernst von DohnányiSextet in C Major Sometimes dubbed the “Hungarian Brahms,” Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) dominated the Hungarian musical landscape between World War I and II. He served as chief conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic, music director of Hungarian...
