by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, August 2
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $65.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Danish String Quartet
“They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all,” says The Los Angeles Times of the Danish String Quartet. The Quartet continues the 2022 Robert Mann Chamber Series with an unusual and delightful choice: a collection of folk music, a rare treat to experience with a classical string ensemble. The program begins with Purcell’s pure Chaconne and ends, unforgettably, with Schubert’s Quartet in G Major. “In his last and greatest string quartet Schubert seems to have set out, like Mahler, to contain the world” (Gramophone).
Program:
Purcell, Chacony in G Minor for string quartet (arr. Benjamin Britten)
Folk Music from the British Isles (arr. Danish String Quartet)
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Schubert, String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, July 19
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $65.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra
The Festival continues its Robert Mann Chamber Series, named for a beloved educator, composer, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet. Tchaikovsky spent some of his happiest days in Florence, and his Souvenir blends Italian romance with folk flavors from his native Russia; Russian themes also appear in his compatriot Borodin’s Sextet, particularly in the second movement (one of only two movements which have survived!). Mikhail Glinka’s massive influence on Russian classical music cannot be overstated; here, his cheerful and optimistic Trio pathétique showcases the rare combination of clarinet, bassoon, and piano.
Program:
Alexander Borodin, String Sextet in D Minor
Mihail Glinka, Trio Pathétique in D Minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence, Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Sunday, July 17
Doors: 6:00 PM
Concert: 6:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
John Adams
Guest Artist:
Jeremy Denk, piano
The Festival’s focus on today’s music continues as world-renowned conductor and Festival composer-in-residence/co-curator John Adams takes the podium to lead his off-beat and grooving Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with the extraordinary Jeremy Denk at the piano — listen for a second “detuned honky-tonk piano” to add its voice. Music Director Peter Oundjian conducts the final symphony by Christopher Rouse, which The New York Times called Rouse’s Sixth “a haunting and profound farewell” true to the composer’s character: “all of Mr. Rouse — contemplative elegy, rowdy playfulness, eclectic homage — is in this score.” In her Tumblebird Contrails, composer Gabriella Smith calls to mind the Pacific Ocean and “keening gulls, pounding surf, rush of approaching waves, sizzle of sand, and sea foam in receding tide.”
Program:
Gabriella Smith, Tumblebird Contrails
John Adams, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
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Christopher Rouse, Symphony No. 6
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Friday, July 1
Doors: 6:00 PM
Concert: 6:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
Guest Artists:
Takács Quartet
Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the 2022 Festival season with special guests: Boulder’s own Takács Quartet. This Grammy Award-winning quartet joins the orchestra for John Adams’ Absolute Jest, which samples, twists, and builds upon Beethoven’s themes, in particular his late string quartets; Adams has referred to his Jest as “Beethoven that has been passed through a hall of mirrors.” Dvořák’s iconic Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” was written in the “new world” of America but teeming with Bohemian folk influence as well. Composer Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers nods to a notebook entry written by Beethoven and explores “the unpredictable ways of fate” and the uncertainties of life.
Program:
Carlos Simon, Fate Now Conquers (2020)
John Adams, Absolute Jest (2012)
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Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 (“From the New World”)
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, July 12
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $65.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Attacca Quartet
“I like to think of [Attacca Quartet] as collectors of joy,” says their cellist, Andrew Yee. New York’s Grammy Award-winning Attacca (pronounced ah-TAK-ah) Quartet “believes in and celebrates” music of the 20th and 21st centuries; in this performance, which bridges the Robert Mann Chamber Music Series and our week celebrating the Music of Today, the Quartet brings raucous and funky music from contemporary greats Caroline Shaw (who is “like a fifth member of our quartet,” says Yee), Gabriella Smith (whose Carrot Revolution was commissioned by composer John Adams for the Quartet), Philip Glass, L.A. producer and DJ Flying Lotus, and more.
Program:
John Adams, selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances
Flying Lotus, Clock Catcher; Remind U; Pilgrim Side Eye
Anne Müller, Drifting Circles
Louis Cole, Real Life
Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima”
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Caroline Shaw, The Evergreen
Gabriella Smith, Carrot Revolution
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