Welcome to OICMF Scherzo (skert·sō/ noun: a vigorous, light, or playful composition)
The monthly newsletter of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival

Another Video Highlight from August, 2024


This month's musical memory from summer seems especially appropriate for the holiday season. We invite you to get comfortable, curl up with your warming beverage of choice, and enjoy Franz Schubert's Ave Maria, performed by Anita Orne, saw, Cho-Liang Lin, violin, and Jon Kimura Parker, piano.

Exciting News for Fans of the Our Lady of the Rock Mustards!


Mother Cat and her elves on Shaw Island have come up with two new mustards, just in time for the holidays! They make great hostess gifts and stocking stuffers, use them for your holiday entertaining, or just enjoy them yourself, because you deserve it, this time of year or any other!


  • Old Fashioned Dijon (Mustard seed and powder, water, verjus, wine vinegar, salt, turmeric, citric acid, and tartaric acid)


  • Spicy (wine vinegar, brown mustard seed, salt, turmeric, allspice, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, citric acid, tartaric acid


Currently available online or in the Festival office, in very limited quantities for the holiday season!


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All the best,
Anita Orne
Executive Director
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
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