Author: David Sckolnik
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Music Review: Colorado College summer music fest opens with flawless performance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In planning the program for this past Thursday evening’s opening concert of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, music director Sue Grace clearly had one major objective in mind: let all who would come to…
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Magical Mozart from Opera Theatre
A musical spell was cast last night at First Christian Church in downtown Colorado Springs. For those who were enchanted by it, it is unlikely that its musical beauty and theatrical magic will release them anytime soon. The principal purveyor of this was one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through his last completed opera buffa, “Cosí fan…
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CC Festival’s Faculty Finale Astounds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Performance quality has ceased to be any kind of issue at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. For its 31 years faculty artist rosters have always been blessed by world-class musicians. Their culture of cooperation…
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CC Festival’s Faculty Finale Astounds
Performance quality has ceased to be any kind of issue at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. For its 31 years faculty artist rosters have always been blessed by world-class musicians. Their culture of cooperation and artistic commitment continues to blossom and seems to be at a highpoint. In recent seasons, the festival’s student “fellows”…
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Blog: Colorado College Summer Music Festival off to usual great start
Even though we know it is coming every year, the first warm and fragrant day that announces “Spring has arrived” always overwhelms the senses with delight and nostalgia. So it is with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. Even though the it was essentially the same cast of characters on the stage and in the…
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Students score big at CC Summer Music Fest
For music lovers, the greatest allure of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival has been and will continue to be the chamber music concerts given by its faculty artists. But the festival’s students have been gaining artistic ground of late. Over the decades, the three-week festival has steadily been attracting higher quality students. It’s gotten…
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Opera Theatre in Pueblo and the Springs
Presented by Opera Theatre of the Rockies, 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Damon Runyon Theater, 611 N. Main St., Pueblo; 3 p.m. Sunday at First Christian Church, 15 E. Platte Ave., Colorado Springs. $7-$20; 719-564-0479 (Pueblo), 646-3127 (Colorado Springs), operatheatreoftherockies.org Edited to add: The Friday performance has been postponed due to a water main break.…
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Philharmonic shows the “Rite” way to make music
Go to Pikes Peak Center this afternoon. It’s the Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s last concert of this season and whether you’re a classical music fan, a lover of jazz, into heavy metal or, heck, live for country music it’s just not to be missed. With all its gusto and glory, the opening work of the concert…
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Caballé-Domenech and Philharmonic finish with “Fantasia” and “Rite”
Colorado Springs Philharmonic music director Josep Caballé-Domenech was still feeling the impact of his recent performance of the Brahms “Symphony No. 1” when he reflected on what he and the orchestra have accomplished in their four years together. “That’s, for me, a culmination of the process,” he said. “Three years ago, that symphony wouldn’t sound…
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Turkish clarinetist goes ‘dancing’ with Chamber Orchestra
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, season finale, conducted by Thomas Wilson with clarinetist Emirhan Tuga, 7 p.m. Saturday (Broadmoor Community Church, 315 Lake Ave.) and 2:30 p.m. Sunday (First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Ave.); $5-$20; 633-3649; chamberorchestraofthesprings.org. Clarinetist Emirhan Tuga (Eh-MEER-hahn TOO-ah) comes to Colorado Springs for two concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of…