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Music Explorers Society

We create the "high notes" of life embarking on music vacations throughout the world!

Specializing in Music Excursions around the globe!

Music Explorers Society is a group based in Palm Springs, California that attends extraordinary music group tours and travel events. From short music escapes to local classical music and theater events throughout Southern California to music festival excursions around the world, we plan it all. Our specialized music tours are geared towards the intellectually demanding traveler who wants to experience an independent music tour in the company of other classical music lovers.

We celebrate music of all genres and don't limit ourselves to just one style. We also enjoy the cultural aspect of music and attend festivals such as the Solvang Danish Festival that grant us an authentic experience of folk music. Our Newsletter informs members of the travel dates and up coming trips. In addition to fun facts about musicians and music history.

Our Music Explorer Escapes are quick trips, theater and opera evenings out, one-day festival music trips, or weekend music travel trips throughout Southern California. All like-minded classical music and theater lovers are invited to participate in these events, whether your a local Southern California resident or visiting from abroad. Learn more about Music Explorer Escapes and the fun you're missing out on.

Music Explorer Excursions are independent music tours that take us across the country and the world, exploring a wide selection of music festivals, European music capitals, and included knowledgeable guides who take our love of classical music to heart, providing us with a rich independent music tour experience and European Vacation.

Join us for local music travel events or abroad to music destinations and music festivals across the globe. Music Explorers Society, where music tours are the high note of the music in your life!

FEATURED MUSICIAN

"Give me a laundry list and I will set it to music."

Gioachino Rossini

This great genius of the opera was born in Pesaro Italy on February 29, 1792. He came by his talent quite naturally his father was a horn player and his mother was a singer in the opera house s. Rossini was introduced to the world of opera as a young child sitting backstage to his mother’s performances. As he grew older he played a boy’s part in an opera in Bologna he was also employed as a continuo player and repetiteur. Rossini was a student of many instruments; horn, viola, and harpsichord. He also had a beautiful singing voice. His introduction to the writing of opera came quite by chance when a Venetian impresario asked him to write a one-act farce after the previous composer failed to produce the commissioned work. Rossini stepped up to the plate and wrote La Cambiale di Matrimonio and thus we have the start of his opera writing career. He wrote many other operas and some met with success such as La Pietra del Paragone which had a successful run of 53 performances. He was only 20 by this time. This early success brought him fortune, enough to pay the considerable sum to gain exemption from the compulsory French army.

As he continued in his career he was expected to write music to any libretto he was given, adapt it to the singers, and rehearse it in 5 weeks time. During this stage he turned out operas at the rate of one every other month.

As Rossini became renowned even Beethoven gave a noteworthy comment of his talent:

“Rossini is a man of talent and an exceptional melodist. He writes with such ease that for the composition of an opera he takes as many as weeks as a German would take years.”

By the age of 23 he was employed in the Operatic circles of Naples. During this time he was to write 2 operas a year for the Neapolitan opera houses and direct revivals of older works. He was paid handsomely in the position and given a share of the house gambling profits.

The Barber of Seville, one of his most recognized operas, was written for Carnival. Its opening performance was a failure receiving jeers and boos from the patrons. Later performances however were successful despite the foreboding opening night. His last opera is William Tell. The overture is well-known as the theme to The Lone Ranger. His success as an opera composer gave him fame and financial security that enabled him to choose his projects and appearances as he wanted them.

In 1866 he suffered a stroke and about 18 months later he became very ill. His last days were very painful and he gave up his spirit on November 13, 1868. He married twice in his lifetime and both wives preceded him in death.

Rossini achieved the fame and success of which many artists dream of possessing. He was friends with many other noteworthy musicians such as Liszt, Rubinstein, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Bizet, and Saint-Saens to name a few.

Fun Fact:

Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro are based on the same play.

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