Wyoming Public Media presents the 2012 Summer Season of the GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL

Thursdays at 8pm on Wyoming Public Radio and Classical Wyoming/repeats Saturdays at 4pm on Classical Wyoming

Broadcast date            Program                                  Performance date

Week 1 – July 26-      Giants Among the Tetons          (July 6/7)

Donald Runnicles, conductor- Heidi Melton, soprano; Stuart Skelton, tenor; Donnie Ray Albert, baritone

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8- WAGNER Die Walküre (Excerpts)

Week 2 – August 2     The Festival Orchestra Shines   (July 13/14)

Donald Runnicles, conductor

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8-“Unfinished”  BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7

Week 3 – August 9    Rolling Thunder                         (July 20/21)

James Gaffigan, conductor- Colin Currie, percussion

DVOŘÁK Noonday Witch  MACMILLAN Veni, veni, Emmanuel  PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5

Week 4 – August 16    Marvelous Mozart                   (July 27/28)

Donald Runnicles, conductor- Charles Ullery, bassoon-  Pärt Fratres

MOZART Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, MOZART Symphony No. 38 “Prague”

Week 5 – August 23    Brilliant Baroque                   (August3/4)

Bernard Labadie, conductor - Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano

HANDEL Orchestral Music and Arias from Agrippina and Ariodante, HANDEL Water Music

Week 6 – August 30    Russian Masters                       (August 10/11)

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor- Stephen Hough, piano

RAVEL Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose Suite), RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Week 7 – September 6  Celestial Bliss                       (August 17/18)

Donald Runnicles, conductor- James Ehnes, violin

KERNIS Newly Drawn Sky, SIBELIUS Violin Concerto, BRAHMS Symphony No. 1