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 wor 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, Brahms, Guido López-Gavilán, and César Franck [Applause] ♪♪♪ Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin it is a showcase for the oboe.

Something that every oboe player knows.

Everybody looks forward to.

Everybody fears in a certain way.

And I count myself among, those people.

The piece was originally written as a suite for solo piano and then orchestrated by the composer later on, ♪♪♪ The oboe is a French instrument, and so there's a long tradition of fine oboe playing coming out of France.

I have to think he was inspire by the fine players and teachers And maybe there's also something about the fact that the oboe can be a very vocal instrument.

And that is, something that a lot of composers really really capitalize on.

♪♪♪ There are passages that are fluid and fluent and virtuosic, and they're als singing long lyrical passages.

You get to do a little bit of everything in this piece.

♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ My father did write this piece for me.

It's a wonderful thin to collaborate with a composer.

Any composer.

But if he's your dad, even better.

It goes into the last movement with a 6/8 typical Afro-Cuban pattern, that usually is played by batá instruments.

After that, it ends in a full out conga.

Phenomenal.

Just like a street conga.

So it ends really optimistic.

And, it really kind of sums up the entire Cuban culture, and its beautiful for the violin.

♪♪♪ [Applause] ♪♪♪ We're performing the César Franck Symphony in D minor.

In France at that time, there were sort of two schools of composition, and in a sense, one was fighting the other.

And César Franck was a very insecure person as far as his composition was concerned.

The previous work was slammed by the critics.

So he was in a situation where he was having to prove himself again, you know?

♪♪♪ This symphony combines a very French way of looking at the world combined with a very German way.

It is very brassy.

It's very serious, very dramatic.

There's a lot of outpouring of the soul in this music.

It's written so big for the brass that it's a little bit too much sometimes.

So we have to sort of adjust for that.

The size of the orchestra and the acoustics of the tent too.

You feel this tension in the music between France and Germany, as it were.

And getting the balance between those two is really interesting.

It's a fascinating sound world that you go into.

♪♪♪ [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.