Contributed by: Skaneateles Festival

This season (August 12 – September 5) will be a 30th Anniversary celebration with memorable performances featuring some old Festival friends.

Mark Kaplan, Steve Doane, Michelle LaCourse and Andres Cardenes will all be back and renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk will give a solo recital.

We will celebrate music from New York for an entire week, called “I Love New York,” with music by composers who lived in or were inspired by New York, including Michael Torke, Nathaniel Dett, Samuel Barber, Virgil Thompson, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The centerpiece will be a world premiere by young composer Carter Pann that celebrates life in Central New York. This lively work – for violin, clarinet, cello, piano and narrator – will be based on original poems submitted in 2007 by members of our community. The week will conclude with a magical evening of Broadway tunes under the night sky at Brook Farm.

Come celebrate our 30th season of world-class music by the lake. The 2009 season runs from Wednesday, August 12 through Saturday, September 5. Please plan to join us for what is sure to be magical, musical season.

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