Join the VIS for a festival filled with music that is well aged, full bodied, with a delectable bouquet and taste, like the best wine from ancient vineyards and vintners. Add beauty for the eyes in art that is both old and new, as visual artists join the Symphony to create works reflective of the music.  A Wine Tasting, Wine Competition and Winemaker’s Dinner will be held over the Festival weekend.

Old Wine in New Bottles                           
                       Festival I                                                                

Friday January 21, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Guest Conductor: Ivars Taurins

A musical and visual tour of the Baroque era, including:

J.S. Bach — Partita no. 3 and
Orchestral Suite no. 4

Pachelbel — Canon and Gigue

Haendel — The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Ivars Taurins, conductor with Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and an esteemed Baroque music scholar, shares his insight while conducting the VI Symphony in an intriguing and compelling tour of German, Italian and French gems from the 16^th and 17^th centuries. Words and projected images complement each other; this concert likens to opening a very old bottle of wine, letting it breathe and release its mystery…

Old Wine in New Bottles

Festival II

Saturday January 22, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Conductor Pierre Simard takes from the past and makes it new and exciting; from Respighi’s sweet harmonies, based upon Botticelli’s three paintings of Spring, Birth of Venus and the Adoration of the Magi, to the very familiar Danny Boy and Greensleeves, followed by songs about morality, love spring and drinking taken from the codex written by monks of Benediktebeuern and known today as Carmina Burana. Saving the best wine until last, the festival closes with the awe inspiring, image-filled Pulcinella Suite by Stravinsky.

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