the FS Foundation, PBS Reno, RenoTahoe, The University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, The Carol Frank Buck Foundation, Linda and Alvaro Pascotto, Dick and Charlotte McConnell, Ian Weiss.

♪♪♪ Classical Tahoe is a festival in Incline Village, Nevada that happens every year for three weeks.

We're all from different orchestras with different styles, and we come together.

There are musicians here from San Francisco, LA, Saint Louis, Pittsburgh, all over the country.

It's like an all star team.

This is an inspirational place to be.

And, getting to work with this incredible orchestra.

So, so enjoyable.

♪♪♪ The feeling is so friendly, so open and so relaxed.

Its a beautiful place to play music.

And I think the interaction between the audience members and the musicians really makes it what it is, makes it very special.

We can seat a little bit short of 400 people in our outdoor venue here.

It's a small, intimate space, it almost feels like the audience members are on stage with you.

The people that come to support us and listen to our concerts are intensely, addicted to what we do.

And they show us that love all the time.

I've made friends in the audience and it's sort of like my summer family now.

Thanks to our relationship with PBS, we've been able to bring these concerts to all over the United States The increased visibility that that brings and the reach that we have as an organization, really, expands what we're able to do.

And it's very inspiring to those of us on stage Making music anywhere is spectacular.

Here in Tahoe, getting to wake up.

Smell the pine trees.

When Vivaldi is writing in his score.

You know, the summer and his Four Seasons.

Wonderful, unique situation where you can bring so many great musicians together and have these fantastic concerts, working with great conductors, and soloists.

Every year the orchestra gets stronger and the music making gets more beautiful.

♪♪♪ [Applause] Today's program features music by Ravel, Ricard, Strauss and Berlioz.

[Applause] ♪♪♪ I'm playing the Ravel piano concerto.

I play jazz as well.

So I get very close to this kind of music.

I think this piece is a lot to do with American music.

I think he was inspired on Gershwin's music when he, he had heard for the first time.

We can hear and we can feel that vibe in this wonderful masterpiece.

♪♪♪ It sounds easy because he's very easy to listen to.

But it doesn't really mean that its not a very difficult piece.

It's very demanding for the piano and for the orchestra.

you have to be very clear, but at the same time, you got to be very pianissimo.

listen to the rest of the instrumentation.

The whip is, it's just kind of scary.

[laughs] Oh my god, this is it!

[laughs] But its fun, its really fun.

♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ The Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Strauss, a work for chamber orchestra, but a very unique treatment, in that every single musician on stage has their own part.

Even though it's 35 people, how he was able to very specifically say No.

Those are just one violin.

No.

Two violins.

No.

Seven different violin parts.

And I think it was the idea of this piece being one of his largest chamber works.

It's not an orchestral piece in the vast nature of Don Quixote, or Don Juan, or Heldenleben.

It's a work that actually is intimate.

But it tells this incredibly fun story of more or less someone who's come into wealth, but has no understanding of what it is to be in high society.

So of course, what do you do?

You buy your most expensive version of Cliff notes and you try to get to the heart of the matter as quick as you can so you could impress the woman of your dreams as quickly as possible.

And it's this constant struggle of like, you know, the joy of trying to be at the cream of society, but also realizing that the cream of society might be full of it from time to time.

The whole piece comes across as both humor and joking.

Not poking fun too much at what is real, but sort of laying it all out there for us all to judge or enjoy.

♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ Berliozs Roman Carnival Overture is actually a part of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, and it has a slow introduction with a really beautiful English horn solo, which is the Cellini love song And then there starts this really bustling, lively, fast part, which is a section from a Roman carnival scene in the opera.

It's a saltarello.

It's a really like a very fast, lively dance.

♪♪♪ It's got a lot of energy.

Virtuoso orchestra piece.

This is where we all get to show off, especially the strings.

The passage work in the woodwinds.

Everybody.

Just some ferocious fast, you know, high powered.

It's great.

It's really fun.

It's a super fun, fun piece, ♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ Funding for this program has been provided by the FS Foundation, PBS Reno, RenoTahoe, The University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, The Carol Frank Buck Foundation, Linda and Alvaro Pascotto, Dick and Charlotte McConnell, Ian Weiss.