by Brianna Suazo | Mar 3, 2022
Event Time: 6:30 PM
One Year Later: Reflections and Resiliency after the Boulder Shooting will feature the CU Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA)’s Humanities @ Home competition winners and community members Jen Douglas, undergraduate student; Jessica Lawson, Instructor and alumna; and Ross Taylor, Assistant Professor of Journalism. The event will be moderated by Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities John-Michael Rivera, whose research focuses on gun violence. Come listen to our panelists speak on their art, their process, and how the act of creating has helped each of them reflect upon the March 22 Boulder Shooting at the Table Mesa King Soopers.
With Opening Remarks from:
Phil DiStefano (CU, Chancellor)
To view more information on the Humanities @ Home competition, see here.
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Sunday, July 24
Doors: 6:00 PM
Concert: 6:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*
Conductor:
Ryan Bancroft
Guest Artist:
Albert Cano Smit, piano
“If you want to hear perfection, this is it,” says Music Director Peter Oundjian of Mozart’s final concerto, performed here by rising star pianist Albert Cano Smit, winner of the 2019 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2017 Walter W. Naumburg Piano Competition. Mozart is at his most majestic and most beautiful in his Symphony No. 39. Ryan Bancroft conducts this all-Mozart program, which begins with a dark and intense serenade for winds.
Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade No. 12 in C Minor, K.388
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No.39 in E-flat Major, K. 543
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Sunday, July 31
Doors: 6:00 PM
Concert: 6:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*
Conductor:
Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Guest Artists:
Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano
John de Lancie, actor
Marnie Mosiman, actor
Abigail Nims, mezzo soprano
Principal Guest Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts a special Midsummer Night’s Dream. This performance pairs Mendelssohn’s lush score, which includes the instantly recognizable “Wedding March,” with a dramatic reading by actor John de Lancie (American Shakespeare Festival, TV’s Star Trek The Next Generation) to summon Shakespeare’s fairies, royalty, and fools in love. Mendelssohn penned Midsummer’s overture at age 17; Bizet was the same age when he wrote his Symphony in C, a surprisingly mature work, effervescent and full of contrasts. The program opens with a brand new orchestral arrangement of Jessie Montgomery’s vivid Starburst, which is, in her words, “a play on imagery of rapidly changing musical colors.”
Program:
Jessie Montgomery, Starburst
Georges Bizet, Symphony No. 1 in C Major
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Felix Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Friday, July 22
Doors: 6:00 PM
Concert: 6:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*
Conductor:
Ryan Bancroft
Guest Artist:
Randall Goosby, violin
“[Randall] Goosby plays like an angel with nothing to prove,” claims the L.A. Times. The youngest recipient ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition and an artist dedicated to the dynamic music of Black composers, violinist Randall Goosby joins the Festival to perform a scintillating work by Saint-Saëns and Florence Price’s sweeping Second Violin Concerto. This concerto by Price was lost to history until 2009; similarly, the orchestral version of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Solemn Prelude was only recently rediscovered. The “energetic yet graceful” Ryan Bancroft (The Guardian), conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, joins the Festival to lead Sibelius’ sonorous Second Symphony; Sibelius once said of its first movement, “It is as if the Almighty had thrown down the pieces of a mosaic for heaven’s floor and asked me to put them together.”
Program:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Solemn Prelude
Florence Price, Violin Concerto No. 2
Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
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Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 2, Op. 43
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Thursday, July 14
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $75.00 Concert Member)*
Conductors:
Peter Oundjian
John Adams
Guest Artists:
Samuel Adams
Tessa Lark, violin
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
The legendary John Adams, 2022 composer-in-residence and co-curator of this week’s programs, shares the podium with Music Director Peter Oundjian in this can’t-miss concert, beginning with a commissioned work by Timo Andres, an exceptional composer personally selected by Adams. Adams’ own orchestral masterpiece City Noir brims with cinematic lyricism and yearning melodies. “The music should have the slightly disorienting effect of a very crowded boulevard peopled with strange characters,” says Adams, “…the kind who only come out very late on a very hot night.” John Adams’ son Samuel is a formidable composer in his own right, and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow; his lyrical and haunting Chamber Concerto gives violinist Tessa Lark an opportunity to shine.
Program:
Timo Andres, world premiere commission
Samuel Adams, Chamber Concerto
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John Adams, City Noir
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