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The Playground Ensemble, Denver’s avant garde music group will present a concert of new music this Friday. I will quote from a short press release that I received: WHAT: New Creations Concert WHEN: Friday, 5/17/13 at 7:30pm WHERE: Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, CO 80210 The […]
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I have attended three or four concerts this concert season where the musicians involved in the performance truly seemed totally energized and excited by the music they were going to perform. Such was the case Saturday evening, May 11th, with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Bahman Saless. They performed an all-Beethoven […]
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Friday evening, May 10, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Matthew Halls, conducted Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah. This work, which Mendelssohn completed in 1846, became as well-known as Handel’s Messiah. However, it could be argued that its popularity caused it to be performed by organizations that did not have the talent, or artistic sense, to […]
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Ars Nova Singers’ “Music Beyond Words”: A Unique Collage of Sound to Top Off 27th Season Ars Nova Singers, a professional-caliber ensemble of 38 musicians based in Boulder, will conclude their 27th concert season with a program of non-text-based choral works entitled Music Beyond Words. Both performances, on May 31 (Boulder) and June 1 (Centennial), […]
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For me, it is hard to believe that ten years have passed since the construction of the Newman Center. But I have received a press release listing some concerts to celebrate just that event: the Tenth Anniversary of the Newman Center. All of the performances listed below are sure to be outstanding; however, the one […]
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The Denver Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lawrence Golan as its new Music Director and Conductor. Golan succeeds Adam Flatt to become the DPO’s fifth Music Director since its founding in 1948. Golan is currently in his twelfth year as Conductor of the University of Denver’s Lamont Symphony Orchestra […]
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The winner of the Young Artist Piano Competition, Elise Solberg, will join the Parker Symphony Orchestra in the final performance of the season performing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Ms. Solberg is a very promising young pianist who has won many awards. WHAT: Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue, Elise Solberg, piano Wagner – Overture to […]
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I have just received word that Maestro Devin Patrick Hughes has been named conductor of the Arapahoe Philharmonic orchestra. He will continue to conduct the Boulder Symphony Orchestra as well. Below, I quote from the Arapahoe Philharmonic website, as well as the Boulder Symphony website: “Maestro Hughes was recently one of only twelve conductors worldwide […]
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I have just received a press release from the Boulder Symphony Orchestra announcing their final concert of the season. I have quoted their press release below, but I would like to draw attention to a couple of items. The first is the performance of Robert Schumann’s Symphony Nr. 1, which carries the nickname Spring. This […]
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This week, the St. Martin’s Chamber Choir will present Eric Plutz, organist, will present a concert at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral on Washington Street. This promises to be a concert worth hearing because he is a very fine organist. In addition, he is performing a work by the Russian romantic composer, Alexander Gretchaninov. This is […]
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