2010 Festival: Maps & Legends

Music@Menlo’s eighth season embarks upon a multidimensional journey through the vast landscape of human experience. Over the course of seven Concert Programs, the festival’s signature Encounter series, and a host of other events, the 2010 festival presents music that speaks to a wide compass of times, places, and universal phenomena—music that proudly affirms a nation’s identity, marvels at the changing of the seasons, and responds to the trauma of war. Illuminating through their music the unique vision of composers from Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Dvořák to Schoenberg, Copland, and Crumb, Maps and Legends reveals music as a lens through which we discover the world we inhabit.

Concert Program Series

Concert Program I: The Seasons
July 23
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Concert Program II: The English Voice
July 25, 26, and 27
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Concert Program III: Vienna
July 31 and August 1 and 2
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Concert Program IV: Aftermath: 1945
August 4 and 5
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Concert Program V: La Ville-Lumière: Paris, 1920–1928
August 7
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Concert Program VI: Spanish Inspirations
August 9 and 10
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Concert Program VII: Dvořák’s America
August 13 and 14
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Encounters

Encounters, Music@Menlo’s signature series of multimedia symposia led by classical music’s most renowned authorities, represent the festival’s context-rich approach to musical discovery and add an integral dimension to the Music@Menlo experience.

Encounter I: Das Land ohne Musik and the Search for English Musical Identity, with R. Larry Todd
July 24
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Encounter II: Vienna at the Center: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Culture, 1762–1938, with Ara Guzelimian
July 30
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Encounter III: Under the Influence: Cultural Collage in Paris during the Early Twentieth Century, with Bruce Adolphe
August 6
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Encounter IV: Dvořák and the New World, with Robert Winter
August 12
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Carte Blanche Concerts

Music@Menlo’s Carte Blanche Concerts highlight individual festival artists in recital programs reflecting their musical passions. This summer’s Carte Blanche series complements the season’s Concert Program offerings with seminal masterpieces by Western music’s greatest composers.

Carte Blanche Concert I: Schubert’s Winterreise
Randall Scarlata, baritone; Gilbert Kalish, piano
July 25
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Carte Blanche Concert II: Schumann and Chopin
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
July 29
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Carte Blanche Concert III: The Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Cello
David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
August 3
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Carte Blanche Concert IV: Found in Translation
Alessio Bax, piano
August 8
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