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Hearst Castle, 750 Hearst Castle Rd, San Simeon, CA
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Tickets: $175
Time: 6:30pm
Festival Chamber Players
Igor STRAVINSKY
Octet for Winds
Max BRUCH
Octet for Strings
This special Encounter presents music that was written while W.R. Hearst was in residence at Hearst Castle (1919-1947), a rich and important period in classical music. Inspired by a beautiful dream, Stravinsky’s Octet for Winds (1923) returned to the musical forms of bygone eras in a neoclassical style. Like Hearst Castle itself, the work combines the visionary (tonality and instrumentation) with tradition (European musical architecture). The lushly beautiful Octet for Strings (1920) by Max Bruch harkens back to the Romanticism of Brahms. Enjoy sumptuous hors d’oeuvres, award-winning wines from Tablas Creek Vineyard and a Pacific sunset on the Neptune Terrace before the intimate presentation of these engaging works of the early 20th century.
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