Colorado Music Festival
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Friday July 5 6:30pm MDT
Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
The 2024 Festival season opens with the much-anticipated return of Alisa Weilerstein, whose music “emerges with sunlit clarity” (The Guardian) here Weilerstein performs one of the most breathtaking works for cello. Later: Mendelssohn could not shake the “festive air” of......More
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Sunday July 7 10:30am - 11:15am MDT
Family Concert: Green Eggs and Ham
Do you like Green Eggs and Ham? Musical storytellers Really Inventive Stuff return by popular demand, this time with their fully-staged adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ beloved children’s classic featuring Sam-I-Am. This engaging Family Concert also includes a musical twist on ......More
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Sunday July 7 6:30pm MDT
Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
The 2024 Festival season opens with the much-anticipated return of Alisa Weilerstein, whose music “emerges with sunlit clarity” (The Guardian) here Weilerstein performs one of the most breathtaking works for cello. Later: Mendelssohn could not shake the “festive air” of......More
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Tuesday July 9 7:30pm MDT
Dohnányi, Beethoven & Schumann
The 2024 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series begins with a spotlight on the Festival’s own musicians. Dohnányi’s sextet brings together piano, string trio, clarinet, and horn, an uncommon combination which the composer uses to mischievous effect. Beethoven’s brief “Eyeglas......More
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Thursday July 11 7:30pm MDT
Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev
Famous for inciting a riot at its 1913 premiere due to its cutting-edge compositional techniques, Stravinsky’s Rite represents “the mystery and great surge of creative power of Spring.” BBC Music Magazine has praised violinist Vadim Gluzman’s performance of Prokofiev’s ......More
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Friday July 12 6:30pm MDT
Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev
Famous for inciting a riot at its 1913 premiere due to its cutting-edge compositional techniques, Stravinsky’s Rite represents “the mystery and great surge of creative power of Spring.” BBC Music Magazine has praised violinist Vadim Gluzman’s performance of Prokofiev’s ......More
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Sunday July 14 6:30pm MDT
Bruckner Bicentennial: Symphony No. 4
“Look, how brightly the universe shines! Splendour falls on everything around…” Schoenberg’s chromatic and stunningly beautiful Transfigured Night draws inspiration from a poem about a woman harboring a dark secret and the man who loves her enough to forgive her. 2024 m......More
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Tuesday July 16 7:30pm MDT
Schubert’s Strings & Nielsen’s Winds
The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues by highlighting musicians from the Festival’s own ranks. One of the most beloved works ever written for wind quintet is this music by Carl Nielsen he composed his Wind Quintet with five friends in mind, and this warmth, as ......More
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Thursday July 18 7:30pm MDT
Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt
Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable concerto’s themes that have been borrowed by countless films, Sinatra songs, an......More
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Friday July 19 6:30pm MDT
Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt
Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable concerto’s themes that have been borrowed by countless films, Sinatra songs, an......More
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Sunday July 21 6:30pm MDT
Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere
Be the first to experience a brand new concerto by Gabriela Lena Frank, heralded as one of the most significant women composers in history by the Washington Post. Kachkanaraqmi (“I Still Exist”) was commissioned by the Festival and will be performed by Boulder’s Grammy-......More