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Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart – SOLD OUT!
featuring Sierra Hull, Billy Contreras, Justin Moses, Shaun Richardson, & Mark Schatz
Door Time: 6:30 PM
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Over the last four decades, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 15 Grammys in nine different fields, including Country, Pop, Jazz, Instrumental, Classical and World Music. But his roots are in bluegrass, and that’s where he returns with his first bluegrass tour in 24 years, My Bluegrass Heart.
My Bluegrass Heart is the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album, Drive, and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band will spotlight a multi-generational gamut of the best of bluegrass players, all sporting a myriad of Grammy Awards and nominations, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Billy Contreras, mandolinist Sierra Hull, multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses, guitarist Shaun Richardson, and bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz.
My Bluegrass Heart is available now from BMG; learn more at BelaFleck.com!
Just in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Fleck, you know that he just loves to play the banjo, and put it into unique settings. A fifteen-time Grammy Award-winner, Fleck has the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. His collaborations range from his ground-breaking standard-setting ensemble Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a staggeringly broad array of musical experiments. From writing concertos for full symphony orchestra, exploring the banjo’s African roots, and collaborating with Indian musical royalty Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Churasia with Edgar Meyer, to performing as a folk duo with wife Abigail Washburn, and jazz duos with Chick Corea, many tout that Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player. As Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times, “That’s a lot of territory for five strings.”
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One Year Later: Reflections and Resilience after the Boulder Shooting
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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Colorado Music Festival | Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27
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
Ride the FREE HOP 2 Chautauqua shuttle to this show. Click here for more info.
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Colorado Music Festival | A Midsummer Night’s Dream with John de Lancie
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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