Biglake Arts Music Festival Presents Carnaval des Animaux

Change is the only constant and this concert presents music that has gone through transformations. Saint Saëns best-known work, “Carnaval des animaux”, was ironically prohibited by the composer from being performed in public, as he feared the frivolity of the piece would damage his reputation. This popular piece will be performed with a fresh twist: Canadian composer William Rowson has written additional movements inspired by creatures of the Coast Salish territory, done in collaboration with knowledge keepers from the Indigenous nations. Opening this concert is Mozart’s Sonata for 4 hands, a virtuosic work which young Amadeus would have performed together with his sister, followed by Brahms‘s Sonata for 2 pianos, one of two earlier versions of his famous piano quintet.