The Next Festival of Emerging Artists also has its eyes on the future. An annual event founded by composer-conductor Peter Askim in 2013, it brings together young like-minded string players and cutting-edge composers for a week of intensive preparation followed by a pair of performances.
'Town Among the Clouds,' which was produced in 2003, about the past and present lives of the uniquely bonded community of Mount Washington still resonates in 2016.