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Live From the Grand Teton Music Festival 2024

Wednesday nights at 8:00 beginning January 17th on Wyoming Public Radio and Classical Wyoming….
streaming at www.wyomingpublicmedia.org
Grand Teton Music Festival
The Grand Teton Music Festival
The Grand Teton Music Festival with Sir Donald Runnicles and Co-host Jeff Counts

Every summer, the nation’s top musicians come together at the base of the majestic Teton Range in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to create an all-star Festival Orchestra for the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra under the leadership of Maestro Donald Runnicles. The 2024 edition of the 13-week radio series is co-hosted by Sir Donald Runnicles and Jeff Counts.

Program 1 - Mozart at His Early Best

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles,
conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro, K 492
Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat Major, K 191- Sue Heineman, bassoon
Symphony No 25 in G minor, K 183

Program 2 - A Scottish Chapel

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz Overture
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 56, “Scottish"

Program 3 - Ohlsson plays Beethoven

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles,
conductor Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont Overture, Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano No 1 in C Major, Op. 15- Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Program 4 - Shostakovich Five

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
Myroslav Skoryk – Melodie / Marta Krechkovsky, violin
Dimitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

Program 5 - Bruch, Ehnes, and Some Surprises

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Ballade in A minor, Op. 33- Christian Reif, conductor
Anton Webern - Im Sommerwind- Donald Runnicles, conductor
Max Bruch - Concerto No. 1 for Violin in G minor, Op. 26-James Ehnes, violin;

Program 6 - The Creation of the World

Chamber Music with Festival Musicians- Jerry Hou, conductor
André Caplet - Conte fantastique
Bohuslav Martinů - La revue de cuisine, H. 161
Darius Milhaud - La création du monde, Op. 81a

Program 7 - Great Performances

Marc-André Hamelin with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles,
conductor Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 101 in D major, Hob. I/101,
"The Clock”
Steven Sérpa - Mountain Fado: Fado da montanha (World Premiere)
Maurice Ravel - Concerto for Piano in D Major, “Left Hand”
Marc-André Hamelin, piano; Stéphane Denève, conductor

Program 8 - Barber and Bernstein

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Jader Bignamini, conductor
Samuel Barber - Concerto for Cello, Op. 22- Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Program 9 - New Explorations

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
Chamber Music with Festival Musicians
José González Granero - Paisajes (Landscapes)
Kareem Roustom - The Clustered Vine: Songs of Love, Loss, and Remembrance
(World Premiere)
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano;
Detlev Glanert - Idyllium (US Premier)

Program 10 - Love and Loss

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Stéphane Denève, conductor
Jennifer Higdon - Blue Cathedral
Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet

Program 11 – Butterfly

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Act 1
Ana María Martinez, Cio-Cio-San/Christopher Oglesby, Pinkerton/Megan Marino, Suzuki
Thomas Lehman, Sharpless/Rodell Rosel, Goro/William Buanbo Su, Bonze

G24-12 - Program 12 - Bronfman plays Brahms

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles,
conductor Ludwig van Beethoven - The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op. 43
Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15- Yefim Bronfman, piano

G23-13 - Program 13 - A Hero’s Life

Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles,
conductor Mikhail Glinka - Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture
Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Madeline Adkins, concertmaster

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