STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
Guest violinist Vadim Gluzman and his 1690 Stradivarius will help the Sun Valley Music Festival kick off its season on Monday, July 26.
Gluzman and a portion of the orchestra will perform Mozart’s Concerto No. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sun Valley Pavilion before closing out the night with Franz Joseph Haydn’s “London,” or Symphony No. 104 in D Major.
The concert—and other 2021 Summer Season concerts will take place in person, with those who are not fully vaccinated asked to wear masks when not distanced.
“I’m so excited. I can’t wait,” said longtime symphony supporter Connie Price.
Gluzman, a 48-year-oldIsraeli violinist, appears regularly with major orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and London Symphony. Born in the Soviet Union, he started studying the violin at 7. He also studied at the Juilliard School and under Isaac Stern.
His ex-Leopold Auer Stradivari is on loan to him through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
- On Tuesday, July 27, the Festival will set feet a-tapping with Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring composed for a 13-pece chamber ensemble for Martha Graham. It will conclude with Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D Major, also known as “Prague.” The symphony is among Mozart’s most complex.
- On Thursday, July 29, Vadim Gluzman will return to the stage to perform Igor Stravinsky’s “Suite Italienne,” an arrangement for violin and piano of the score for the ballet “Pucinella.” Musicians will follow that up with Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence.”
- Finally on Saturday night, July 31, the Sun Valley Music Festival will present Beethoven’s “Eroica,” or “Heroic” symphony and “Overture to the Creatures of Prometheus.”
Two more weeks of music encompassing the full orchestra will follow through Aug. 19. Admission to the concerts is free.
SIP AND SHOP FOR THE SYMPHONY
J.McLaughlin will donate 15 percent of all sales on Friday and Saturday, July 30 and 31, to the Sun Valley Music Festival. The dress shop is located at 520 E. 4th St. in Ketchum.