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Unless otherwise indicated, all concerts are in Packard Hall, are free, and require no tickets.
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SMF presents ‘The Art of Perseverance: Sounds of Hope and Restoration’
Tickets are free to the first concert in this year’s Intermezzo Season, which brings together festival faculty, CC instructors, and CC students
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Lillie Gray, Forrest Tucker, Jacob Lynn-Palevsky
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Willo Abel Burglechner and Kiara Butts
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The program will include a wide range of music that explores themes of human fragility and how we persevere through difficult times, to include movements from two Brahms piano quartets, a movement from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, D'Rivera's Danzón (Memories), and songs from Heggie's Camille Claudel: Into the Fire.
The concert also includes a wealth of CC student participation. Poetry that corresponds to the music will be chosen and read by Jane Hilberry’s poetry students: Iyanla Ayite ’25, Janeiya Porter ’26, Henry Freedman ’23, Mary Andrews ’23, Keiko Ito ’26, and Anna Heimel ’23. Music students Lillie Gray ’26 on violin, Jacob Lynn-Palevsky ’23 on cello, and Forrest Tucker ’24 on piano will play Carlos Simon’s piano trio be still and know, and Tucker and Lincoln Grench ’23 will perform Shostakovich’s Concertino for 2 pianos. Performing "Everything Else" from Next to Normal will be Willo Abel Burglechner ’23, baritone (alternate vocalist: Kiara Butts ’23, mezzo-soprano), with accompanist Daniel Brink, piano.
"Beginning this fall, we began thinking about the conversations around us at the college and with others in our community – conversations about the challenging moments in our lives. Emerging from Covid, unforeseen tragedies of illness and death, war, gun violence, natural disasters – such events continue to surround us," Grace said. "As we contemplate the cumulative impact of these events and our responses to them, we want to acknowledge how art and music can be a part of how we continue to find beauty, hope, courage, empathy, and perhaps transcendence."
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USAFA Band Chamber Recital Series: AGILITY!
A musical tour de force, featuring a wide variety of styles: classical, jazz, pop, fusion, and funk. The concert will feature music from the late 1800s to 2023, including new compositions by the performers themselves.
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Senior Capstone Colloquium
Music major thesis presentations.
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Live from Packard Hall
CC Faculty Artists Concert Series
Program:
- Mangani's Duo Sonata for Two Clarinets performed by Daryll Stevens and Pam Diaz
- Heggie's The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love performed by Stephanie Brink, mezzo-soprano, and Daniel Brink, piano
- Aharony's "neshima" performed by Jeri Jorgensen, violin, Gerald Miller, cello, Stevens, clarinet, and Ricky Sweum, alto saxophone
- Jazz selections announced from the stage performed by Steve Barta, jazz piano
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Music at Midday
Featuring instrumental and vocal student performances every third Wednesday of the block.
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Opera Scenes
Featuring CC vocal music program students under the direction of Ann Brink and Stephanie Brink.
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Faculty Recital: Jeri Jorgensen, violin; Cullan Bryant, piano
The duo's recently released recording of Beethoven's complete sonatas for piano and violin has been hailed as "nothing short of revelatory ... emotionally satisfying, and true to both the letter and the spirit of Beethoven's compositional process" (Transcentury Blogspot).
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CC Bluegrass featured in national magazine
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The CC Rocky Mountain Tops: Olivia Dossett, Anabel Shenk, Lena Fleischer, Willik Mir.
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The Tumbleweeds: Naomi Pryzant, Lucy Capone, Maren Snow.
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"Bluegrass Goes to College" highlights the program's uniqueness among liberal arts institutions and some of the advantages of learning bluegrass under the Block Plan. An interview with CC Bluegrass instructor Keith Reed details how the bluegrass program has grown since he began teaching acoustic guitar and banjo following a career as a full-time traveling and recording bluegrass musician.
Almost immediately after Reed began teaching guitar and banjo lessons at CC in 2004, he noticed that students were showing great interest in bluegrass and "old-time" styles of music, so he formed a small bluegrass group that soon started performing on campus.
"I noticed very quickly, I saw it in their eyes, there was an obvious spark for this with students," Reed said. "What I love to see is the diversity of students in our program. They're all from different places and backgrounds, but they find this commonality through playing music together. It's accessible, it's simplistic, but it can also be complicated and at a very high level."
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Bañagale elected to Society for American Music board
"I am honored to serve as a member-at-large for the society that has profoundly shaped my career," Bañagale said.
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Ben—Amots Ensemble debuts in Prague
The music of Colorado College Music Department co-chair Ofer Ben-Amots is the inspiration for a new vocal ensemble from Prague.
The Ben—Amots Ensemble is a nine-person chamber choir whose repertoire primarily comprises its namesake's music, as well as works by other composers. The ensemble presented its first concert on Sunday, March 26, in Prague's Rudolfinum, which began the group's month-long tour in venues across the Czech Republic, culminating in a performance on Holocaust Remembrance Day in April.
The title and theme of the concert, "Srdce a Fontána," is a translation of Ben-Amots' choral work "The Heart and the Fountain" from his opera The Dybbuk. The Ben—Amots Ensemble was founded by one of its members, Kateřina Dvorská, as an offshoot of her B.A. thesis — an analysis of Ben-Amots' choral music — at Charles University.
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| Imani Winds: 7:30 p.m. May 11
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