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Listening to Messiaen’s solo piano masterwork Vingt Regards Sur L’enfant Jesus (roughly "Twenty Views of the Infant Jesus") is a challenge for an audience...
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Eleven year old Carl Stoye came to Red Cliffs Adventure Lodge for the August 30 concert with his parents and sister to join grandmother...
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My hosts - a fiesty couple - were kind and generous. They lent me a bicycle so that I could check out some of the local scenery during my stay...
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Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Moab Music Festival was able to present a morning Open Rehearsal Conversation featuring Festival Composer-in-Residence William Bolcom and composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel...
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On September 12 when Moab Charter School student Bates Lawson came home from school, his mother asked what he had learned that day...
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While our house was being constructed, the workers put a basketball hoop at the end of the "great room" and played pick-up games in the space...
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One couldn’t help but wonder whether a hurdy-gurdy had ever been played at the confluence of the Dolores and Colorado Rivers...
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Take a group of obsessive-compulsive, temperamental people (that would be us– the musicians) and put them all together under pressure...
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Patrons Tell Festival A Thing or Two
"I feel so happy to have experienced this superb concert" and "A fabulous experience for my bucket list" are just two comments appearing on 2008 Moab Music Festival surveys...
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The Board, Staff and Artists shout a hearty Bravo! to our
volunteers for making the 2008 Festival a success.
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We were particularly proud of the 2008 Festival. The  balance of the new (the latest word on the Tango, the music of William Bolcom, John Musto, Derek Bermel) with the ancient (Sephardic Spain) and the familiar (Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart) gave our concerts a wonderful scope, covering a great deal of musical territory. Our artists, from the familiar faces returning to the Festival to the exciting new talents making their debuts, performed with extraordinary depth and polish. We heard many comments that the artistic level of the Festival is as good as they come...
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When Music Director Michael Barrett told the audience at Onion Creek to stay in their seats for a little "surprise," he said he had never seen anything like it in his entire career. A group of  artists were demanding the opportunity to play a piece. It was like a revolution.
Here is the story.
Patrons at the September 4 Colorado River Benefit Concert had enjoyed an exhilarating performance of Cesar Franck’s Quintet in f minor for Piano and String. Violinists Maria Bachmann and Ayano Ninomiya, violist LP How and cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach joined pianist Andrew Armstrong to send the audience back up river in a swirl of surging melodies and lush harmonies as only this masterpiece of high Romantic chamber music can deliver.
The musicians felt such a strong connection to the music and so enjoyed playing with each other that they decided they weren’t done with the Franck just yet. They simply had to do it again...
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Sshh! It’s a secret. Where exactly did those 43 people go for their Musical Walk? They were seen gathering at the parking  lot of the Eastern Utah Community Credit Union and reappeared there a couple of hours later. But no one is revealing where they went.
Unnamed sources have provided some limited off –the-record information. The walk itself was about 15 minutes up a large dry wash. At the end, a little scramble up a rock dam landed the adventuresome troupe in a large shaded area where flooding had carved a massive overhang, a natural stage and had provided many opportunities for comfortable seating.
It was a Bach to Bach program...
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Christopher Layer returned in August as 2008 Summer Community Artist-in-Residence. He helped the Moab Community Dance Band prepare for their Fall  Contra Dance. The dance featured guest-caller Pat Tognoni from Colorado and a special appearance by composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel. More than 30 Contra Dancers whirled to the Dance Band’s lively tunes and Pat’s witty calls. The event benefited Festival Education and Community Outreach programs. The Dance Band dates back to 2004, when Christopher, as part of the Artist-in-Residence program ,inspired community members to form this "instrumental" part of Moab’s cultural scene.
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