Top Mountain Music Festivals of the Summer
Aspen Music Festival
www.aspenmusicfestival.com, June 25 to August 23
Tough to believe, but the Aspen Music Festival has been going strong for 60 years now. And this summer's festival promises to be an amazing exploration of what event organizers call "the conditions and values of the human spirit," with three fully-staged operas and works running the classical gamut from Berlioz to Brahms.
Lake Tahoe Music Festival
www.tahoemusic.org, July 23 to August 8
The azure blue depths of Lake Tahoe provide a spectacular backdrop to this eclectic festival, which features performances by the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, a Broadway revue, and a few rock, jazz and blues acts thrown in for good measure. The festival's broad range of acts will appeal to the entire family.
Grand Teton Music Festival
www.gtmf.org, July 1 to August 15
This laid-back classical series got its humble start in a canvas tent at the base of Rendezvous Mountain in Jackson Hole way back in 1962. Nowadays, it’s a bit more heady an affair with world-renowned musicians coming here for the summer to perform classical music as God must have intended it: under that wide-open Wyoming sky.
Bravo! Vail Music Festival
www.vailmusicfestival.org, July 1 to August 4
Pack your favorite bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and a picnic of foie gras and caviar to this exclusive mountainside event. This year's festival promises to be a good one, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and some 50 soloists descending on the Vail Valley for a month of thin-aired orchestral synergy.
Park City Music Festival
www.pcmusicfestival.com, July 6 to August 3
The Park City Music Festival has been around for 25 years, but never really attained the fame of its cousins over in Vail or Aspen. And in that lies its charm. Events are held in homes, art galleries and churches in Park City and Salt Lake. Philanthropists should definitely mark their calendars for the homespun fundraising concerts that keep the series afloat.
Monday, February 16, 2009
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