Beethoven Festival of Park City

Today on Highway 89 we are showcasing the Beethoven Festival of Park City, founded in 1984. Festival Directors Leslie and Russell Harlow and special guest Doris Stevenson share with us some of the selections from the festival, as well as some information anout it and their own experienes.  Doris Stevenson is the Artist In Residence at Williams College. A talented pianist, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky invited her to perform with them early in her career and thus began her musical journey. She's played for Piatigorsky’s master classes, been a soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and a collaborative partner with Piatigorsky, Ruggiero Ricci, and Paul Tortelier. She’s concertized in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Salle Pleyel in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Sala Arongo in Bogota, Columbia. In this episode she performs for us Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.  Russell Harlow is the co-director of the Park City International Music Festival and Autumn Classics Music Festival and runs both the Sonolumina Chamber Orchestra and the Contemporary Music Consortium of Utah. He also founded and directed the Nova Chamber Series in Utah before joining the Park City Music Festival in 1984.  Leslie Harlow is the founder of The Park City Chamber Music Society, which is the force behind the BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL and four other music festivals in Park City each year. She received her master degree in viola performance from the Julliard School and has done European tours with the Julliard Orchestra and Utah Symphony. She is especially well-known in the local community, having taught chamber music at Brigham Young University, served as director for the Virtuoso Series, and Principal Violist with Ballet West before resigning to perform with Utah Symphony.  PERFORMERS: Special Guest Doris Stevenson (piano) and Festival directors: Leslie (viola) and Russell Harlow (clarinet)  HOST: Tres Hatch  REPERTOIRE: BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14, Moonlight, Mvt. 1 (A