PBS NewsHour commented “the walls of stone serve as one of the most breathtaking amphitheaters in the world,” about some of the Moab Music Festival’s “venues.”
Press
The Saint Louis Symphony performed Kernis’s musica celestis, which KDHX radio called “a work of transcendent beauty,” saying “The title translates as “heavenly music” and to my ears it fully lives up to that title, building from a quiet opening to an ecstatic peak before fading out in the highest reaches of the strings, as though ascending to heaven.”
Gramophone magazine on the new recording of Aaron Jay Kernis’s violin concerto by James Ehnes with the Seattle Symphony and conductor Ludovic Morlot: it’s “entertaining, dazzling, smile-inducing, toe-tapping music…Kernis is the preeminent orchestral showman of the age.”
August 13, 2018
“For lovers of contemporary American music nothing could exceed “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein,” according to The Times of San Diego, which saw the show at La Jolla SummerFest and said it “delighted and, even thrilled, a packed house. Those in attendance will not forget this delicious evening, narrated by Nina Bernstein Simmons, daughter of by the late great American composer.”
Living in Aspen, I’ve enjoyed access to a remarkable slate of cultural experiences, but the Moab Music Festival is something else. From the outset, Moab’s striking natural landscape has been a fest hallmark. the purity of sound within the natural amphitheater is nothing short of astonishing. When the audience claps, the gentle noise is like raindrops pitter-pattering onto the desert floor.
July 31, 2018
About Late Night with Leonard Bernstein at the Ravinia Festival, Chicago Tonight said there were “stories of his friends and collaborators (Aaron Copland, Jerome Robbins, and Adolph Green and Betty Comden), were a major part of the mix, along with some rare archival material and the sensational playing of pianists Michael Boriskin and John Musto.”
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