At SML, we endeavor to give our employees as many opportunities as possible to experience all of the fun and excitement that this amazing part of the country has to offer. This includes outdoor adventures like hikes and float trips as well as cultural events in the Jackson Hole community. No event exemplifies this latter category better than the Grand Teton Music Festival. Now in its 51st season, the festival brings top classical musicians from all over the United States and Canada, some for just a few days or weeks at a time, to create incredible, world class performances in the shadow of the Tetons.
The festival presents full scale orchestral performances on the weekends and chamber music concerts on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Wednesdays, "Spotlight Concerts" showcase ecclectic acts from a vareity of genres from bluegrass to Gypsy jazz, to Brazilian guitar music. The Tuesday night chamber concerts are especially unique, in part because they are free, but also because the program is tied together by a lively informational talk on everything from the lives of particular composers, to instrument mechanics, to the contemporary critical reception of certain pieces.
Last night, a group of 15 SML employees attended the "Inside the Music" concert entitled Problem Child, featuring pieces by Mozart, Cage, Vaughn Williams, and Martin. The show managed to be emotionally moving as well as intellectually edifying and we'd just like to give an online shout-out to the Grand Teton Music Festival, congratulating them on another amazing season and thanking them for making high art available to those with limited means : ) We'd like to encourage anyone reading the blog whose considering attending a GTMF performance, DO IT. 
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