-Funding for this program has been provided by... the FS Foundation... ♪♪♪ ...Reno Tahoe... ♪♪♪ ...the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe... Laurie Harden and Silvio Ricardi... Alvaro and Linda Pascotto... Madylon and Dean Meiling.

♪♪♪ -Welcome to "Classical Tahoe."

My name is Jake Heggie and I'm delighted to share some concerts we performed recently in one of the most spectacular settings in America.

Today's program features Francis Poulenc, Lotta Wennakoski, Debussy, and Villa-Lobos.

-Classical Tahoe is a magical combination of wonderful music and fantastic people in a ridiculously beautiful location.

-Since the first time here, like, I fell in love with the space, obviously, with its people and with the whole mood of the festival, which is really relaxed but also very serious in the music making.

-There's a lot of camaraderie between the musicians.

It's a good combination of high-level music making and enjoyment of the outdoors.

-I have had the most wonderful time.

The entirety of Lake Tahoe, both in Nevada and in California, the surrounding mountains, this ocean in the mountains.

It's just unbelievable.

-What we're trying to do is keep our intimate experience, but be able to broadcast it so that people can have a front row seat to both this beautiful place and this kind of quality musical experience.

-The pavilion is all lit up like a fairyland.

-It's magical.

It's one of a kind.

-It's like a block party.

Everybody knows each other in the audience.

And over the course of time, they've gotten to know us.

-After every performance, somebody always comes to me and introduces themselves.

-They're so personal and enthusiastic.

We've made this community together, so that makes it like family here.

-Poulenc's "Sinfonietta" is one of those pieces that I don't know why it gets performed so little.

-It's such a fantastic piece and nobody's heard about it.

-It's actually the first time in my life I'm playing the "Sinfonietta" by Francis Poulenc.

It's a very joyful piece, I find, like, the first and the last movement, very energetic-like.

-It's so rich, it's so full of imagination, but also it has a kind of similar wit.

-It's quirky and interesting.

-It's a little off-beat, it's really energetic, very funny in places and tender in other places.

I just think it's a good piece.

♪♪♪ -It was commissioned in 1947 by the BBC for a radio program that they did that was showcasing new music.

The stipulation was that it should be lighthearted.

It was postwar, and London and the UK was suffering after the war, and on this radio program they wanted new music that was uplifting.

And this piece is so sweet.

I'm just surprised it's not played more often.

♪♪♪ -A beautiful piece and as usual in Poulenc, not a big orchestration, but every instrument is called in as, not a solo, but like a very exposed part.

And especially the use of the woodwinds is crazy.

It's amazing, like, you will hear beautiful solos by Whitney Crockett, the principal bassoon of the LA Phil with me at the moment.

It's a fun piece.

It's, like, great for a summer festival like this.

I think it brings people together and it's very joyful, so I'm really happy to play that.

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It's a piece that's very amazing, that's beautiful.

I have a long history of playing this piece.

Debussy was in my baby bottle, I would say like, you know, since I started classical music.

I was fed in France -- we are fed a lot of Ravel, Debussy, all of the Impressionists.

♪♪♪ It's a sonata that he wrote at the very end of his life in 1915, and it's a very interesting sonata because it was written in France in 1915, but premiered in Boston in 1916.

But when you read about Debussy and how he felt about this work, he felt like he was very nostalgic, obviously, because he was already feeling that he was going to, you know, be not so okay from his disease.

But he says that he sees a reflection of his old self, of his young self.

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Lotta Wennakoski is a Finnish composer, and I've done a few other works by her, but never this one, because this one is with a juggler as soloist.

-My name is Frank Olivier.

I was brought in as a juggler.

♪♪♪ The score has written in it, "Juggler."

And then it says I'm free to do what I want.

-It went really, really well.

The audience loved it.

Sometimes the orchestra and the juggler interact, and the orchestra is also -- they don't just have to play, but also whisper and shout at the juggler.

Words of warning or encouragement.

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Light laughter ] ♪♪♪ -Let's go.

-Would you throw the ball?

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Light laughter ] ♪♪♪ -Just keep on now.

-Throw it, man.

[ Laughter ] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Laughter ] ♪♪♪ -Hey!

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ -Whoa!

♪♪♪ Hey, hey, hey!

Throw it!

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ -Good job, man.

♪♪♪ [ Orchestra shouts "Hey!"

] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Laughter ] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ -Throw... ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Audience shouts "Whoa!"

] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Overlapping chatter ] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ -Don't drop it.

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Applause ] -Whoo!

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Laughter ] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ [ Applause ] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ Phew!

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