Friday MountainTop Masterworks II: Highways & Harmonies – Music of Mozart, Shaw, and Daugherty

Celebrated conductor Vinay Parameswaran leads the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra for “Highways & Harmonies,” an evening celebrating the open road through music. The program opens with Caroline Shaw’s sparkling Entr’acte, followed by a special performance of Michael Daugherty’s Songs of the Open Road featuring Festival Artists Kelly Mozeik (oboe) and Jacob Wilder (horn). From the windswept cliffs of California’s Big Sur to the sun-soaked highways of Key West, each movement paints a vivid musical journey across America’s landscapes. After intermission, the orchestra performs Mozart’s regal Symphony No. 39, a work of elegance, grandeur, and timeless beauty.

Concert Program:

Vinay Parameswaran, conductor

Kelly Mozeik, oboe

Jacob Wilder, horn

Caroline Shaw (b. 1982), Entr'acte

Michael Daugherty (b. 1954), Songs of the Open Road for Oboe, French Horn, and Orchestra

I. Big Sur (Pacific Highway 1, California)

II. Continental Divide (Highway 82, Colorado)

III. Sleeping Bear (Highway 22, Michigan)

IV. Desilu (Highway 394, Jamestown, New York)

V. Blue Ridge  (Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia to North Carolina)

VI. Key West (Overseas Highway 1, Florida)

Intermission

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, K. 543

I. Adagio; Allegro

II. Andante con moto

III. Menuetto e Trio

IV. Allegro