WWCMF makes its first official visit to TERO Estates’ Windrow Vineyard for the final Tasting Music performance of the 2013 Season.

Why first “official” visit? Well, we had the opportunity to rehearse here behind the scenes during the 2012 season and found the environment to be most conducive to making great music. Perhaps it’s the light, which is simply magical as the sun sinks in the western sky. Perhaps it’s the rows of cab stretching across the gentle hills. Perhaps it’s the people who lovingly tend the land. It’s a place that evokes warmth, even across the expanses of time, distance and memory. Such were Tchaikovsky’s feelings toward Italy. His work Souvenir de Florence recalls his joyful time in Italy through music. We could not think of a better setting in the Walla Walla Valley to share this great work and bring to a close the 2013 Tasting Music Series.

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Souvenir de Florence, for string sextet in D, Op. 70

I. Allegro con spirito

II. Adagio cantabile e con moto

III. Alegretto Moderato

IV. Allegro vivace

Artists: Timothy Christie, Julia Gish-Salerno, Norbert Lewandowski, Stephen Miahky, Philip Payton and Meta Weiss