Tag: Colorado Symphony
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Bill Hill: carrying a steady beat into retirement
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Over in a corner of Bill Hill’s living room sits a battered old marching drum. Nowadays, his 2-year-old granddaughter Roselyn loves to give it a whack. Grampa did the same – back when he was 4 years old. “Drumming was just something I always loved…
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Colorado Symphony appoints new President and CEO
The Colorado Symphony has appointed a new president and CEO. The century old symphony named Daniel Wachter to the position on Tuesday. Wachter will officially take over the position on April 1, according to a news release from the symphony. Mark Cantrell, the group’s previous chief, stepped down after roughly two years. Wachter joined the Colorado…
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Lang Lang to headline 2025-26 Colorado Symphony season
In announcing its 2025-26 season, the Colorado Symphony has finally cemented its long-running relationship with Peter Oundjian. The Toronto-born conductor now steps on the podium as (drum roll) music director. Oundjian has held titles here dating back to 2003 — starting as the orchestra’s principal guest conductor, then moving up to principal conductor. At last, he…
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SUNDAY This one is so much noisy fun: Tuba Christmas Denver. Usually the tuba professionals don’t get to be the stars, but this is their time. Two hundred musicians playing holiday music: tubas, sousaphones, baritones and euphoniums. All together. Their horns are decorated and the musicians are,…
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Colorado Music Festival ’23 harbors an old flame for new works
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Peter Oundjian glanced over the Colorado Music Festival‘s 2023 lineup and reported with unconcealed glee, “Everybody I wanted to invite said ‘Yes.’” That pretty much sums up the music director’s enthusiasm for the annual summer event that opens June 29-30 in Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium. That’s…
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Wilbur Lin: Rethinking the American orchestra
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Wilbur Lin is no revolutionary. The newly arrived music director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra chuckles at the suggestion. Yet he admits he’s anxious to help make some big changes in the new world of the American symphony. And, he insists, he’s not alone.…
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 2023: 66 shows that grab our attention
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save You haven’t seen a concert until you’ve seen one at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison. Not much compares to perching on a concrete and wood seat, surrounded by monolithic, 300-foot sandstone walls, and watching your favorite musicians perform, all while inhaling the gorgeous Colorado plains…
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Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn come full cycle
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn have been working on a new Song Cycle with the Colorado Symphony that will premiere Thursday at the Vilar Arts Center in Beaver Creek, then play Friday and Saturday at the Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver. “You betcher, we’ll be…
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Colorado Symphony cancels events through May
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Symphony has canceled nearly all scheduled events in Boettcher Concert Hall for the 2020-21 season, lasting until May 30, the symphony announced Thursday. The symphony also canceled the date to purchase single tickets…