Mozart in the Woods

Fifty years ago, something special happened in the remote woods of Pennsylvania, and its song still carries on the wind today.In 1976, Carl Ellenberger, a musician before becoming a physician, gathered friends in a nineteenth-century Chautauqua Auditorium in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. They thought it was a beautiful location to play the music they loved, and that it would also be fun. That gentle beginning turned into the organization called Gretna Music and nearly five decades of summer musi