The World According to Winds

Oboist extraordinaire James Austin Smith leads Music@Menlo audiences on a journey through musical history from a wind player’s perspective. For the first time at the festival, the evolution of wind instruments is revealed, from their beginnings some 40,000 years ago to their coming of age during the Renaissance. From the physics of producing sound, to the evolution of wind technology, to the great players who inspired composers and immortal compo...