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The Brevard Music Center celebrates its 75th music festival season this year with 18 orchestra programs, 5 opera productions and dozens of chamber music and solo recitals in a casual, accessible setting. The long list of globally recognized musical guests range from cellist to Yo-Yo Ma to Swiss conductor Matthias Bamert to renowned American Songbook singer Michael Feinstein.

This year’s six-week festival schedule (June 4 – August 7), is perhaps the Center’s most ambitious yet, including Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, requiring a woman’s chorus, children’s chorus and a vast array of wind, percussion and brass instruments all under the direction of Keith Lockhart who is also conductor of the Boston Pops and back for his fourth season as artistic director of the BMC.

Among the season’s favorite returning programs is the Patriotic Pops concert July 3, and for a fundraiser on August 1, the schedule reaches into American popular song with celebrated singer Michael Feinstein performing “The Sinatra Project”.

Performances are held on the campus of Brevard College in a venue that combines concert hall acoustics with alfresco features such as lawn seating. It’s very informal, very casual. Nobody dresses up except for the musicians as you listen to music in fresh mountain air and under the stars. www.brevardmusic.org. 888-384-8682.

The drive to Brevard from the Lakehouse at Katie Camp winds east along Route 64 past waterfalls, golf courses and Lake Toxaway. Plan to stop along the way fora pre-concert dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, the Brown Trout Mountain Grille, situated in an old train depot. Call ahead for reservations. 828-877-3474.

For 74 years the hills of western North Carolina have come alive with music from mid-June to early August thanks to the Brevard Music Center in nearby Brevard, North Carolina. For seven weeks each summer, talented students ages 14 through post-college, participate in a rigorous and enriching program of music education, and delight audiences with more than 80 public performances throughout the summer Festival season. Performances, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, Artistic Director, take place in an 1800-seat, open-air auditorium of redwood and natural stone. World-class visiting artists have appeared here, including such musicians as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinists Joshua Bell and Midori, pianists Andre Watts and Emanuel Ax, soprano Renee Fleming and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. Enjoy an evening of world-class music en plein air just a short drive from our North Carolina mountain lake lodge.

Rave On!
Part of the Variations Concert Series
Presenting an electrifying new show paying homage to Rock ‘n’ Roll immortal legend Buddy Holly.
Orch 1: $40; Orch 2: $35; Orch 3: $30; Lawn: $20
Saturday, June 19, 2010 – 7:30 pm
Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium

Opening Night: Lockhart and von Stade
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Frederica von State joins Artistic Director Keith Lockhart to celebrate the beginning of the 2010 Brevard Music Center season in this very special performance.
Orch 1: $45; Orch 2: $40; Orch 3: $35; Child: $15; Lawn: $15
Friday, June 25, 2010 – 7:30 pm
Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium

Tintypes: A Musical Review
A nostalgic turn-of-the-century musical featuring songs of Scott Joplin, Victor Herbert, George M. Cohan and others. 
Orch 1: $30; Orch 2: $25; Orch 3: $20; Child: $15; Lawn: $15
Saturday, June 26, 2010 – 7:30 pm
Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium

Lockhart conducts Gershwin and Copland
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Norman, Krieger, piano
Orch 1: $35; Orch 2: $30; Orch 3: $25; Child: $15; Lawn: $15
Sunday, June 27, 2010 – 3:00 pm
Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium