Idyllwild Music Festival
August 11-17 2008

European students please go to www.idyllwildarts.eu
for additional information.

Overview
Throughout the year, Idyllwild Arts is home to a large and significant population of international students and faculty members. This is in keeping with the educational philosophy of Founders Max and Beatrice Krone who believed that the arts could be persuasive in helping people from different countries and different cultures find common ground:

" “According to our way of thinking, the arts provide the best common ground for friendly cooperation among the peoples of the world. In our arts we express the same hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows, our longings and aspirations, our daily experiences all of those things that mean the most to us. The arts provide a common language we can all understand no matter in what tongue the words may be expressed."”

During the Summer Program, students come from all over the world to study art, music and American culture. During recent summers, students from Austria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine and of course, the United States have come together in Idyllwild for two weeks of intensive music study as members of the Festival Orchestra.

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Events
2008 marks the seventh Idyllwild Music Festival with a continuing annual event: a gala concluding concert at one of the world’s premiere performing venues, Walt Disney Concert Hall, located in downtown Los Angeles, part of The Music Center of Los Angeles County. This year’s concert takes place on Sunday, August 17, at 7:30 p.m. and features the Festival Wind
Ensemble, conducted by Stephen Piazza, the Festival Choir and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Modica, and the Festival Orchestra, conducted by Larry Livingston, performing the following program:

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Program

Festival Choir & Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Modica, conductor

Dona Nobis Pacem - R. Vaughn Williams


Festival Wind Ensemble
Stephen Piazza, conductor

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - J. S. Bach
Red Line Tango - J. Mackey


Festival Orchestra
Larry Livingston, conductor

Symphony No. 2, 1st Movement - G. Mahler
Concerto for Orchestra - B. Bartok

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Events Open to The Public Summer Calendar
Details of all the Festival events for Summer 2008 are not yet in place. Here is a tentative schedule of concerts, lectures, master classes and recitals to be held throughout the week:

•Monday, August 11
8 p.m. Student Music Recital

Tuesday, August 12
8 p.m. Student Music Recital

Wednesday, August 13
8 p.m. Student Music Recital

Thursday, August 14
8 p.m. Faculty Music Recital

Friday, August 15
8 p.m. Festival Choir Concert
8 p.m. Student Music Recital

Saturday, August 16
11 a.m Festival Wind Ensemble Concert
1:30 p.m Festival Choir and Chamber Orchestra Concert
7:30 p.m. Festival Orchestra Concert

Sunday, August 17
7:30 p.m. Festival Wind Ensemble, Choir, and Orchestra Concert

Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles