MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

Postcard from Tippet Rise

Melissa White, Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Pedja Mužijević, Benjamin Beilman, Bryan Cheng, Lizzie Burns and Emma Wernig in The Four Seasons at the Olivier Music Barn; photo: Brian Langeliers

I was very grateful to have the opportunity to return to Tippet Rise this summer. Here’s my report on the opening weekend of the summer season for The Strad:

From this magical spot in south-central Montana, the horizon is ringed by mountains: the Beartooths to the south, guarding the way to Yellowstone; the Absarokas to the east; and the Crazies rising in the west. The panorama shifts as quickly – and as dramatically – as the skies above. Storms can sweep across the land like Wagnerian preludes – dark, brooding, full of menace – only to dissolve moments later into shafts of unearthly light.

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