Episodes

  • The Versatility of Mozart

    The Versatility of Mozart

    · Strings Retuned

    Pieces Performed

    MOZART Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K.320 “Posthorn” I. Adagio maestoso – Allegro con spitito
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2015

    MOZART String Quartet No. 7 in E-flat Major, K.160 II. Un poco adagio Vijay Gupta, Violin
    Laura Albers, Violin
    Mark Jackobs, Viola
    Joel Noyes, Cello
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    MOZART Serenade in G Major, K.525 “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” II. Romanze: Andante
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Sheryl Staples, Concertmaster and Leader
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op.11 III. Presto
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2018

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K.453 I. Allegro
    Kenny Broberg, Piano
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2018

    MOZART Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    About Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality in an intimate mountain setting. Our summer festival includes a genre-spanning lineup featuring classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping popular contemporary artists, all of whom perform in an intimate, 569-seat Pavilion nestled at the base of Steamboat’s mountains. Outside of our venue, we serve the community with a variety of free programming and an in-school education program called Strings School Days. This offering cultivates music appreciation and ability in Northwest Colorado’s K-12 students.

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  • Female Energy

    Female Energy

    · Strings Retuned

    Pieces Performed

    BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 III. Allegro
    Nurit Bar-Josef, Violin
    Jennifer Steele, Flute
    Mark Robson, Harpsichord
    Strings Festival Orchestra
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1
    III. Adagio, quasi andante
    IV. Finale. Allegro animato-Allegro
    Nurit Bar-Josef, Violin
    Chee-Yun, Violin
    Lynne Ramsey, Viola
    Tanya Ell, Cello
    Wendy Chen, Piano
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    ROSSINI Sonata No. 3 for Strings in C Major I. Allegro
    Laura Albers, Violin
    Vijay Gupta, Violin
    Joel Noyes, Cello
    Owen Levine, Bass
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    MENDELSSOHN Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64 III. Allegro molto vivace
    Chee-Yun, Violin
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    About Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality in an intimate mountain setting. Our summer festival includes a genre-spanning lineup featuring classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping popular contemporary artists, all of whom perform in an intimate, 569-seat Pavilion nestled at the base of Steamboat’s mountains. Outside of our venue, we serve the community with a variety of free programming and an in-school education program called Strings School Days. This offering cultivates music appreciation and ability in Northwest Colorado’s K-12 students.

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  • Soundscapes of Beyond

    Soundscapes of Beyond

    · Strings Retuned

    Famous musician Billy Joel has said, “I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.” Seeing the humanity in each other is an essential part of sharing music. In this episode, relax to a soothing soundscape of strings, piano, and percussion from works by Claude Debussy, Joe Tompkins, Arvo Pӓrt, and Gustav Mahler. We recommend looking at the stars while you listen to Episode 4.

    Meet your host, Music Director Michael Sachs.

    @1:00 Jamey Lamar reflects on meditation, or meditates on reflection. How do musicians listen to their music to understand?
    “[Mindfulness] is opening yourself up to the world, truly, by stopping all of that inner noise. The same can be true when we stop to listen to a piece of music.”

    @04:56 Jump to the Debussy, performed by Joyce Yang

    @08:18 Percussionist Joe Tompkins talks about composing for a place as unique as The Tank, and the experience of driving hours through Colorado to arrive at the one-of-a-kind recording space.
    “In my opinion it was like walking into Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome, and saying we’re going to record a piece here in the middle of the desert. You kind of expected Mel Gibson to come around the corner in a crazy truck.”

    @13:18 Jump to 4Round

    @23:06 Did you know Arvo PĂ€rt combined numerology and harmony? Vijay Gupta, violinist and founder of Street Symphony, discusses the form of the piece, which is “a kind of musical miracle 
 that fluttering light that is constant in all of us, all the time.”

    @26:35 Jump to the PĂ€rt, performed by Vijay Gupta and the Strings Festival Orchestra

    @37:57 Michael Sachs’ favorite piece of music ever written: Mahler’s Adagietto movement in Symphony No. 5.
    “Being married to a harpist 
 I always take this moment to reflect on our many years together, how much we’ve shared, and like this is my love letter to my own wife.”

    @39:38 Jump to the Mahler, conducted by Brett Mitchell and performed by the Strings Festival Orchestra

    Pieces Performed

    DEBUSSY Préludes - Book 2, No. 5, BruyÚres
    Joyce Yang, Piano
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    TOMPKINS 4Round
    Marc Damoulakis, Percussion
    Jeremy Epp, Percussion
    Joseph Tomkins, Percussion and Composer
    Kevin Watkins, Percussion
    Performed at The Tank in Rangely, CO in 2018

    PÄRT Fratres (for Solo Violin, Strings, and Percussion)
    Vijay Gupta, Violin
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2017

    MAHLER Symphony No. 5 IV. Adagietto
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Brett Mitchell, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2018

    About Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality in an intimate mountain setting. Our summer festival includes a genre-spanning lineup featuring classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping popular contemporary artists, all of whom perform in an intimate, 569-seat Pavilion nestled at the base of Steamboat’s mountains. Outside of our venue, we serve the community with a variety of free programming and an in-school education program called Strings School Days. This offering cultivates music appreciation and ability in Northwest Colorado’s K-12 students.

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  • Connections Across Centuries

    Connections Across Centuries

    · Strings Retuned

    Relationships are how we understand the past and bring it into our future. In episode three, travel over one hundred and fifty years of musical relationships between composers. How have the greats, Mozart and Haydn, inspired the more modern composers Stravinsky and Prokofiev? The heart of the music is always in our relationships, and the artists who join this episode talk about the connections between composers and amongst themselves.

    Pieces Performed

    GRIEG Holberg Suite for Strings, Op. 40 I. Praeludium
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    HAYDN String Trio No. 21 in G Major, Hob V:G1 II. Gavotte
    Nurit Bar-Josef, Violin
    Amy Lee, Violin
    Joel Noyes, Cello
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 “Classical Symphony” III. Gavotte: Non troppo allegro
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2015

    HAYDN Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat Major, Hob.Vlle: I II. Andante
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor and Trumpet
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2015

    GRIEG Holberg Suite for Strings, Op. 40 II. Sarabande
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    MOZART Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major, K.285 III. Rondo
    Sharon Sparrow, Flute
    Nurit Bar-Josef, Violin
    Mark Jackobs, Viola
    Joel Noyes, Cello
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 “Classical Symphony” I. Allegro
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2015

    MOZART Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K.320 “Posthorn” II. Minuetto
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2015

    STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite VIII. (a)Minuetto - (b)Finale
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    About Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality in an intimate mountain setting. Our summer festival includes a genre-spanning lineup featuring classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping popular contemporary artists, all of whom perform in an intimate, 569-seat Pavilion nestled at the base of Steamboat’s mountains. Outside of our venue, we serve the community with a variety of free programming and an in-school education program called Strings School Days. This offering cultivates music appreciation and ability in Northwest Colorado’s K-12 students.

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  • Dreamy French Composers

    Dreamy French Composers

    · Strings Retuned

    Since we cannot travel anywhere right now, naturally, all we can think about is 
 travel. When our music director decided to send everyone on a journey to France, he compiled the most beautiful French pieces ever recorded at Strings Pavilion. So, pour yourself a glass of Provence rosé for this episode, and imagine lavender fields. Music Director Michael Sachs hosts the program, and is joined by commentator Jamey Lamar, concertmaster of the LA Phil Martin Chalifour, and principal keyboardist of the LA Phil Joanne Pearce Martin.

    @01:15
    Meet your host, Music Director Michael Sachs. Michael Sachs talks about the connections between the four French composers. “When you think of French music with its intimate colors and lush fragrant elegance, all of these men were at the forefront of that golden age of French romanticism.”

    @ 03:18 Jump to the Debussy performed by Joyce Yang

    @ 06:13
    Joanne Pearce Martin explains just why FaurĂ© wrote such beautiful music. “I’m issuing a spoiler alert here: but really, it’s one of the most dream-like and gorgeous 24 bars
”

    @ 08:29 Jump to the Fauré

    @ 24:30
    Jamey Lamar tells us about CĂ©sar Franck’s compositions that rekindled the public’s passion for “that rocketship of an instrument,” the organ. Lamar guides the listener through Franck’s early years, and Broberg’s “a real poet’s sensitivity and balance.”

    @ 28:22 Jump to the Franck, performed by Kenny Broberg

    @ 38:38
    Saint-SaĂ«ns was an accomplished pianist, but also loved the trumpet, Martin Chalifour says. Focusing on the “luscious” piece of music, Chalifour also shares how each player is highlighted in a special way in Saint-SaĂ«ns’ music. “A good composer will make use of players sporadically and just engage them in the flow of the conversation but 
 like a zoom call, you know? Not everyone can speak at once!”

    @ 40:57Jump to the Saint-Saëns

    Pieces Performed

    DEBUSSY Préludes - Book 1, No. 12, Minstrels
    Joyce Yang, Piano
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    FAURÉ Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op. 15 III. Adagio IV. Allegro molto
    Martin Chalifour, Violin
    Robert Vernon, Viola
    Mark Kosower, Cello
    Joanne Pearce Martin, Piano
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2015

    FRANCK Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18
    Kenny Broberg, Piano
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2018

    SAINT-SAËNS Septet in E-flat Major for Trumpet, Piano, and Strings, Op. 65 IV. Gavotte et Final
    Martin Chalifour, Violin
    Jun-Ching Lin, Violin
    Robert Vernon, Viola
    Mark Kosower, Cello
    Timothy Pitts, Bass
    Joanne Pearce Martin, Piano
    Michael Sachs, Trumpet
    Performed at Strings Music Festival in 2015

    About Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality in an intimate mountain setting. Our summer festival includes a genre-spanning lineup featuring classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping popular contemporary artists, all of whom perform in an intimate, 569-seat Pavilion nestled at the base of Steamboat’s mountains. Outside of our venue, we serve the community with a variety of free programming and an in-school education program called Strings School Days. This offering cultivates music appreciation and ability in Northwest Colorado’s K-12 students.

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  • Beethoven's 250th Birthday

    Beethoven's 250th Birthday

    · Strings Retuned

    The Beethoven 250 episode celebrates his quarter-millenium birthday with a string quartet, cello and piano duo, and two chamber orchestras performing Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4. Music Director Michael Sachs hosts the program, and is joined by commentator Jamey Lamar, violinist John Macfarlane, bassoonist William Short, and cellist Joel Noyes.

    Meet your host, Music Director Michael Sachs:

    @ 00:29
    Jamey Lamar shares a clever overview of Ludwig’s life and attitudes, and how Beethoven, “you beet farmer,” changed the image of the classical composer forever, from the staid image of “Papa Haydn” to a man who couldn’t care less what the aristocracy thought about him, and offered a vision of classical music that was wild and inclusive.
    “You believed in us. You kept reorienting us to our shared humanity. Nobody’s left out of your vision from the world.”

    @ 05:45
    John Macfarlane offers insight to the early, middle, and late string quartets of Beethoven, and a deep-dive into the keys, moods, and melodies of String Quartet No. 5, Op. 18.
    “This [No. 5] shows a young brash man who you could imagine would show up at a fancy dinner party announcing himself and be charming and witty, and at the same time, be a really rude presence in the room.”

    @ 08:32
    Jump to String Quartet No. 5 performed by the Attacca Quartet

    @ 15:23
    Michael Sachs provides an intense look into Beethoven’s emotions as the composer pours his soul into Symphony No. 2.
    “Reflecting on his struggle, I think we can all relate to difficult times and acute uncertainty.”

    @ 16:45
    Jump to Symphony No. 2

    @ 28:14
    Joel Noyes speaks to Beethoven’s variation on Mozart’s opera, and demos multiple melodies on his 1860 J.B. Vuillaume cello for the audience to catch in the performance. The piece is performed by Joel and pianist Benjamin Hochman.
    “This an exceptional piece .. the joy of playing it is Beethoven’s mastery of the material and his ability to combine Mozart’s genius with Beethoven’s fingerprints all over it.”

    @ 32:52
    Jump to 7 Variations

    @43:32
    Meet William Short, and hear his explanation of the most fearsome bassoon solo in the classical repertoire.
    “But those few measures of music just stretch on forever because you’re intimately aware through the hundreds and thousands of hours you’ve practiced them of every single thing that can go wrong.”

    @45:22
    Jump to Symphony No. 4

    Pieces Performed

    BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op.18 I. Allegro
    Attacca String Quartet | performed at Strings Music Festival in 2018

    BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 II. Larghetto
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor | performed at Strings Music Festival in 2016

    BEETHOVEN 7 Variations on “Bei Mannern, Welche Liebe Fuhlen” in E-flat Major Wo046, from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
    Joel Noyes, Cello
    Benjamin Hochman, Piano
    performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 IV. Allegro ma non troppo
    Strings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, Conductor | performed at Strings Music Festival in 2019

    About Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality in an intimate mountain setting. Our summer festival includes a genre-spanning lineup featuring classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping popular contemporary artists, all of whom perform in an intimate, 569-seat Pavilion nestled at the base of Steamboat’s mountains. Outside of our venue, we serve the community with a variety of free programming and a free in-school education program called Strings School Days.

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