Highway 89

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 F