BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1467@mohawkvalley.today DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250815T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250815T190000 DTSTAMP:20250813T232939Z URL:https://mohawkvalley.today/events/festival-finale-mendelssohn-italian- conductorless/ SUMMARY:Festival Finale: Mendelssohn Italian Conductorless DESCRIPTION:Music to celebrate the Kane Mountain Fire Tower Centennial feat uring a full symphony orchestra alongside guest violinist Jeremy Kittel.\n See other Kane Mountain Fire Tower Centennial Events. Conductorless Mendel ssohn’s Italian Symphony\, Kittel’s Stones River Concerto\, and more!\ nGet tickets: $20 General Admission\nFree general admission for students 1 7 and under!\nCaroga Arts offers FREE admission to concert goers 17 an d under for all Caroga Arts presented concerts at Sherman’s.\nSponsor: The Daily Gazette\nVendor: Stump City Brewing\nJeremy Kittel is an Americ an violinist\, fiddler\, and composer. He received a Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumental Composition” in 2019 alongside John Williams and T erence Blanchard. Fluent in multiple musical genres\, he composes original music that draws from a wide variety of influences including folk\, jazz\ , Celtic\, Classical\, electronic\, and more.\n\nKittel performs with his group Kittel &\; Co.\, as a soloist with orchestras\, and in collaborat ive and supporting roles with many of today’s leading artists. In demand as a composer and arranger\, he has worked with Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck\, My Morning Jacket\, Aoife O’Donovan\, Theo Katzman\, Jars of Cl ay\, Yo-Yo Ma\, and the Silk Road Ensemble\, Jon Batiste\, Laura Veirs\, S ara Watkins\, and the Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet (of which he wa s a member for five years). He has also recorded with artists such as Edga r Meyer\, Chris Thile\, Fleet Foxes\, and Esperanza Spalding.\nStones Rive r Concerto:\nStones River\, a new orchestral composition by Grammy-nominat ed composer Jeremy Kittel\, is called “hauntingly beautiful… a moving and uniquely American composition” (Orlando Sentinel). Kittel was first approached by rising star conductor Eric Jacobsen at the Orlando Philharmo nic Orchestra to compose the piece\, which draws from the deep well of mul ticultural American Revolutionary and Civil War era music.In February 2020 \, Stones River was premiered by the Orlando Philharmonic with Jeremy as s oloist in a highly successful debut. “The concerto for orchestra and sol o fiddle evokes a sense of nostalgia with a modern edge…. Powerful…” (Orlando Sentinel). After the debut performance\, Eric\, Jeremy and the P hilharmonic were inspired to record Stones River and other compositions fo r a new collaborative album released in early 2025. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mohawkvalley.today/new/wp-content/upload s/2025/08/IMG_8482.jpeg CATEGORIES:Caroga Lake NY,Fulton County LOCATION:Sherman’s Park\, 114 East Shore Road West Caroga Lake\, Caroga L ake\, New York\, 12032\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=114 East Shore Road West Ca roga Lake\, Caroga Lake\, New York\, 12032\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS= 100;X-TITLE=Sherman’s Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR