What do you do if you’re a cellist teaching music in a summer camp near Longs Peak, Colorado? Why, you decide to climb the peak, all 14,259 feet of it. With your cello, of course. For a concert on the summit. And you talk a violinist into going with you. So you won’t be the only crazy person up there.
The cellist is Gal Faganal and the violinist crazy enough to go with him is Jenny Shea. The music that’s playing as they climb is from Dvorak’s “New World Symphony,” one of my all-time favorites.
Here’s Faganal playing “Dvorak: Cello Concerto Op. 104, Excerpt”:
And here’s Shea playing “Ashokan Farewell”:
For a little more background, see “A Cello Concert On Longs Peak? That’s So Colorado.” These people are my kind of crazy!
Thanks to Karen Waller for telling me about this.
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WOW. All I can say ( such rare air…or is that rare aria?) Very very cool
I’m just blown away by this (glad they weren’t). Maybe that mountain is easier for those who live here. Climbing it as a vacationer here was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.
Excellent. These young and talented people are elevated above the population not just topographically but in talent, physical health and philosophy as well. I think it says a lot for genetic diversity!
It does, although this kind of physicality is pretty common among Colorado youth. Mountain sports require it. If only I’d grown up here …
I have always had a soft spot for both the cello and the violin. I enjoyed the last video most of all.
I prefer cello to violin, but to hear either from this place just blows my mind. It was all I could do to get just me, myself, and I up that mountain way back when.