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 Mendelssohn, Rodrigo, Debussy, and Beethoven.

[Applause] ♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ The Concierto de Aranjuez is the guitar concerto.

The entire concerto really represents guitar in the best possible way.

Rodrigo was blind and didnt know the instrument so well but he has really composed this masterpiece.

It works so well for the instrument.

It represents all the different techniques that guitar has.

All the different dynamics, colors.

And so it's kind of a piece that just has everything in one, The 2nd movement is absolutely the centerpiece of the work Rodrigo had just lost a child, and this is his way of dealing with it.

It's always a back and forth between the soloist and the orchestra.

basically him having a conversation, or just asking the universe, why does this have to happen to me or to anybody?

♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ The Debussy is a gorgeous work.

It's actually a piano piece originally that was orchestrated not by Debussy but by a student of his.

But Debussy approved the orchestration.

Its magical.

It's really terrific.

♪♪♪ Children's Corner is a real treat because it's not something that's done very often.

Being able to hear it in this orchestrated version, I think will be really interesting.

It's certainly interesting for me as a player, because I'm hearing familiar music through a different sort of a lens, and I get to play some passages that I otherwise wouldn't have been able to play.

The opening has a surprisingly very difficult clarinet line that starts off the whole thing.

it's quite fast, and it's supposed to be one of the lines that's played on both hands on the piano.

[Singing] Its easier to do what I just did than it is to actually play it.

♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, probably one of his least performed works.

But after you hear this piece, you can't really do anything but smile.

♪♪♪ I find it very interesting that he really thinks of the wind instruments in this piece as solo instruments.

You see almost like a throwback to earlier Mozart or Haydn lightness.

Only one flute versus the other symphonies on either side.

Two flutes, and even in the Fifth Symphony, having a piccolo.

It really feels like chamber music, almost like a continuation of the incredible string quartets that Beethoven had been writing and would continue writing.

♪♪♪ [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.