Sasha Cooke with Festival Musicians
Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United StatesThemes of love and loss feature strongly in this program featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. First up are a pair of songs Brahms wrote for his friends, the great violinist Joseph Joachim and his wife, Amalie, hoping to bolster their rocky marriage. Chaussonās Chanson perpĆ©tuelle then depicts the distress of an abandoned woman, evoking memories of happy love, nostalgia, and anguish. Concluding the program, Cooke will sing Hector Berliozās Les nuits dāĆ©tĆ© (āSummer Nightsā). Berlioz put six poems about unrequited love to music, creating a song cycle. Itās a musical form Mahler would employ several decades later in his RĆ¼ckert Lieder, which Cooke will sing in the following concert.
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Community School Theater 1 Community School Drive, Sun Valley, ID, United StatesStudents from this summer's programs for grades 2-12 share their work from the week in small ensembles.
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Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United StatesOne of classical musicās great mysteries is why Schubert never finished his eighth symphonyāhe lived six more years after he stopped working on it. But thereās no mystery in why it has become so popular: itās gorgeous, and it includes one of the most famous melodies ever written. Like Schubert, Gustav Mahler was a master songwriter, and he set many poems by Friedrich RĆ¼ckert to music. Sasha Cooke, a āluminous standoutā (The New York Times) with āequal parts poise, radiance, and elegant directnessā (Opera News), sings Mahlerās RĆ¼ckert Lieder with the Festival Orchestra.
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