Overlake

It's hard to remember each year that driving to the Overlake School in Redmond takes you to such a different environment. There are horses and farms along the roads and it gets so dark there, that it feels like you are camping. Opening night brought the performance of the Dvorak Terzetto, originally composed as a piece for friends and students. Dvorak, son of a butcher, realized that the music was in fact too difficult for the people he composed it for and had to step in himself. Parts exist for both two violins and viola as well as two violins and cello. It's a lovely piece, especially the second movement which brings the kind of ending harmonies that you dream about in music.