Venturing Off Campus

It was all a case of location, location, location as the Music Academy of the West’s 72nd annual summer festival entered its second week.

Having staged all concerts at Hahn Hall on the Miraflores campus with the fest’s kickoff, the Lobero and Granada were added into the mix this week.

The Festival Artists Series at the Lobero, featuring works by Vierdanck, Monteverdi, Bach, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff, was followed by the Faculty Artists Recital with works by Barber, Bartok, Debussy, Pergolesi, and Saint-Saens at Hahn Hall, wrapping with the Academy Festival Orchestra’s second concert under conductor Larry Rachleff at the Granada.

The entertaining performance focused on the year 1905, the subtitle of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 in G minor, reflecting the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The short opening work was Decoration Day from Charles Ives’ A Symphony: New England Holidays.

Another glorious week…