October 10, 2009

Today marked our last summer wedding of the 2009 season. Our mountains are capped with snow, the golden leaves of the aspens are preparing to float away in the wind, and the air carries the definite nip of oncoming winter. Although it was beautiful outside today, we were grateful to be inside the Vail Interfaith Chapel and not battling the elements.(10/10/09 3:20 pm)

While we often play for destination weddings, today we played for a local couple's wedding. One of the exciting aspects of a local wedding lies in the knowledge that we may actually bump into our clients at some future point here in the valley.

We enjoyed this couple's musical selections as they not only chose their ceremony and processional music, but also their prelude and postlude pieces as well.

All of today's pieces were strictly classical and we began our prelude with Bach's Air, Handel's Air and Andante from Water Music, Corelli's Pastorale, Bach's Ave Verum Corpus, and Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze.

The wedding party entered to Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and the bride entered to Handel's Largo - a gorgeous and not so commonly used processional piece.

The ceremony ended with a recessional from Handel's Allegro from The Water Music, and the wedding party and guests exited to Vivaldi's Spring from the Four Seasons, and Handel's La Rejouissance and Hornpipe.

We were honored to play for this beautiful local's wedding as well as each wedding and event we've played for this summer.

Thank you to all of our clients - we've enjoyed working with each and every one of you, and are looking forward to the 2010 summer wedding season!

The Ritz Carlton at Bachelor Gulch

I've been waiting to get some photos from the photographer prior to publishing this post, but I decided I couldn't wait.

With the advent of fall and as the snow begins to fly, we begin wrapping up our 2009 summer wedding season. It has been a great summer - slightly cooler and wetter than normal, but nonetheless beautiful. This year has been our busiest to date, and we’ve enjoyed all of the opportunities we’ve had to share our music in all of our venues.

This weekend we played at the Ritz Carlton at Bachelor Gulch. As we headed into this outdoor wedding, we were quite nervous and tentative as the weather forecast was approx. 47*, and we worried about being too cold to play. We had however, negotiated that if we played outside, heaters would be provided to offset the cold.

As we began our prelude, our violinists began with a couple of violin duets. We then moved into Corelli’s Pastorale, Handel’s Largo, and Bach’s Air.

Transitioning from the prelude to the ceremony music, we played Pachebel’s Canon as all of the family members and honored guests were seated, and then the Top Gun Anthem for the groom’s entrance. This was followed by Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring for the wedding attendants, and Wagner’s classic Bridal Chorus for the bridal processional.

During the ceremony The Ashokan Farewell was played as musical interlude, and Vivaldi’s Spring from the Four Seasons served as the recessional.

Moving back down to the patio for cocktails, we then played a mix of classical and contemporary pieces including, Can’t Help Falling in Love, Hallelujah, Bygone Days, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Annie’s Song, Airoso, Viva La Vida, Sheep May Safely Graze, O Mio Babbino Caro, My Heart Ever Faithful, Here comes the Sun, Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Ode to Joy, Liebestraume, Only Time, Brandenburg, The Flower Duet, and Edelweiss.

We were thrilled that the heaters worked out great at one point we were actually almost too warm!) and we were honored to play a small part in this beautiful wedding!