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Sun Valley Symphony : Debut of the Sun Valley Pavilion (Architectural Marvel), Free Concert Series

Sun Valley Pavilion Prepares to Debut at Iconic Resort

Architectural Marvel is Venue for the Sun Valley Symphony Series, the World’s Largest Privately Funded, Free-Admission Symphony Concert Series

(SUN VALLEY, Idaho) – On Sunday, August 3, 2008 the Sun Valley Pavilion will make its debut as the host venue for the Sun Valley Summer Symphony (SVSS).

The Sun Valley Summer Symphony is a world-class orchestra consisting of distinguished musicians from major orchestras throughout the United States and is the largest privately funded, free admission symphony in America.

Beloved maestro Alasdair Neale has led the SVSS to national acclaim – now they have a venue to match their brilliance.

After 23 years of performing great free concerts in makeshift tents, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony (208-622-5607, svsummersymphony.org) has a permanent new home in the new Sun Valley Pavilion, which has been transformed from a visionary architect’s rendering to a fully functional concert venue of international acclaim. The essential element of the superstructure, a towering, seventy-foot high proscenium arch constructed in a Tacoma shipyard, was transported to Sun Valley in three enormous sections and welded back together onsite. Installation of this formidable steel truss (weighing 75 tons), required the three largest commercial cranes in the region, with each crane having a capacity of 275 tons.

Inspired by the world’s greatest concert stages, the 3,000 square foot stage easily accommodates the Symphony’s 100-piece orchestra, backed by choral risers. (This summer’s Aug. 9 Benefit Fundraiser will include a full Symphony orchestra, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and mezzo-soprano, Denyce Graves.)

The stage is lined with curved acoustical, fabricated wood panels designed to evenly deflect the sound. Similar curved acoustical panels are suspended above the orchestra to disperse the natural acoustic vibrations throughout the seated audience.

The exposed wall surfaces are surfaced with imported travertine rock from the famous Mariotti quarry outside of Rome – the same material used throughout the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center in New York, and the Coliseum in Rome. 750 tons of travertine was shipped to Sun Valley from the port of Civitavecchia, northwest of Rome.

The solid roof over the stage and backstage are suspended by a grid of steel cables, attached to wooden runners, which, in turn, support the Pavilion’s horn-shaped wooden roof clad with copper shingles.

The terraced, concentric amphitheatre seats an audience of 1,500 under nearly half an acre of white fabric, stretched from the proscenium arch to the curved pergola (promenade) at the rear of the audience. This tensile fabric canopy is translucent; admitting soft, diffused sunlight in the daytime, and emitting a warm lantern-like glow from the outside on summer evenings. Every seat has a more comfortable, more intimate relationship with the stage than ever before.

The gently terraced park surrounding the Pavilion is equipped with a sophisticated sound system. Utilizing components of the LARES-Lexicon system, the exterior sound seems to emanate acoustically from the stage, rather than from speakers.

FTL Design Engineering Studio developed the architectural concept for this pavilion. The firm has been designing alfresco music pavilions for 30 years, including the Pier 6 Pavilion on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Concerts Pavilion, and the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera’s portable concert facility.

Concert Season
Alasdair Neale, Music Director
All concerts will be held at the new Sun Valley Pavilion

Sunday, AUGUST 3, 2008 - CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF THE SUN VALLEY PAVILION!
Opening night concert will begin at 6:00 PM
Gil Shaham, Violin
Puts Commissioned Overture – World Premier
Brahms Concerto for Violin in D Major, Opus 77
Tchaikovsky Overture 1812, Opus 49

Monday, AUGUST 4, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, Opus 72b
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67

Wednesday, AUGUST 6, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM
Bill VerMeulen, Brian Thomas, Tod Bowermaster, Lisa Conway, Solo Horns
Schumann Concertstück for Four Horns in F Major, Opus 86
Respighi Feste romane (Roman Festivals)

Thursday, AUGUST 7, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano
Ravel/Neale Minuet from Sonatine for Piano
Ravel Concerto for Piano in G Major
Debussy La Mer

Saturday, AUGUST 9, 2008 - Benefit Evening
4 PM cocktails & hors d’oeuvres, 6 PM concert
The only night we charge admission

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir,and vocal sensation Denyce Graves
Tickets Are Now On Sale

Sunday, AUGUST 10, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Opus 74, “Pathétique”

Monday, AUGUST 11, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM

Orion Weiss, Piano
Mozart Concerto for Piano No. 17 in G Major, K. 453
Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, “Prague”

Tuesday, AUGUST 12, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM

Chamber Music Concert
Mozart “Kegelstatt” Trio
Peter Henderson, Piano
Ben Freimuth, Clarinet
Morris Jacob, Viola
Golijov Mariel
Bjorn Ranheim, Cello
Charles Settle, Marimba
Brahms String Quintet in G Major Op.111
Rudy Kremer, Violin
Asako Kuboki, Violin
Uri Wassertzug, Viola
Marylene Gingras-Roy, Viola
David Premo, Cello

Thursday, AUGUST 14, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM

Chamber Music Concert

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Linda Lukas, Flute
James Gorton, Oboe
David Neuman, Clarinet
Bill VerMeulen, Horn
Ben Kamins, Bassoon
Gretchen Van Hoesen, Harp
Mendelssohn Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op.20
Juliana Athayde, Violin
Karyn Blake, Violin
Amy Glidden, Violin
John Macfarlane, Violin
Dustin Budish, Viola
Lynn Richburg, Viola
Jeremiah Shaw, Cello
Meeka Quan-Di-Lorenzo, Cello

Friday, AUGUST 15, 2008 - POPS NIGHT concert begins at 6:30 PM
Erich Kunzel, Conductor
Steven Morgan, Tenor
Michael Lowe, Baritone

Reineke Sun Valley Celebration Fanfare (World Premiere)

Wildhorn/Reineke This is the Moment from Jekyll and Hyde

Arnaud Bugler’s Dream (used in the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics)

Williams Olympic Fanfare (for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics)

Lloyd Webber Amigos para siempre (for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics)

Williams Summon the Heroes (for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics)

Menken Go the Distance from Hercules

Papthanassiou/Reinek Main Theme from Chariots of Fire (used in the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics)

Williams Call of the Champions (for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics)

Williams Song for World Peace

Spangler/Reineke Medley for Peace in the World

Saturday, AUGUST 16, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM

Joshua Bell, Violin
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream
Overture
Scherzo
Nocturne
Wedding March
Ravel Tzigane, Concert Rhapsody for Violin
Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Opus 28

Monday, AUGUST 18, 2008 concert begins at 6:30 PM

R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Opus 40

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