Author: By David Sckolnik Special to The Gazette
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Review: A joyful conclusion for CC Summer Music Fest’s 40th season
They convened June 2, with the first concert three days later. The 20th and final public offering came Friday night as the 40th anniversary season of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival closed with a jubilant musical statement. A packed Richard F. Celeste Theatre in the campus’ Cornerstone Arts Center welcomed festival music director Susan…
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Review: Chamber finale at CC Summer Music Festival unearths masterpieces
The fifth performance was like the others. With the exception of a Mozart quintet, nothing offered on Festival Artists Concerts at this June’s Colorado College Summer Music Festival belongs on the list of chamber music’s most popular works. Saying it another way, it’s doubtful that audiences were familiar with the programmed music. Yet, this 40th…
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Review: Colorado College Summer Music Festival crushes expectations
A collection of three French horns and a bass trombone doesn’t sound like an exciting way to open a chamber music recital. On Monday night, however, this was going to be a concert that ran counter to expectations at every turn. So it was that horn players Michael Thornton, Christine Ott and Christian León with…
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Review: Colorado College Summer Music Festival reaches apex
Thursday’s offerings at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival saw some artists’ final appearances and the return to the concert stage of others. From festival artists and festival orchestra to Music at Midday and the children’s concert, it’s all been an ensemble to orchestral experience. But on Thursday, pianist William Wolfram’s final appearance on the…
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Review: Festival Orchestra brings down the house at CC Summer Music Festival
Form an orchestra. Assign it a formidable musical challenge. Ask it to accompany a soloist without a conductor on the podium. Give it seven days of rehearsals and then a performance on the next day. This seemingly insane mission has become business as usual for the Festival Orchestra of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival.…
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Review: Colorado College Summer Music Festival brilliantly bursts conventions
The box score from Saturday’s Faculty Artists Concert during the 40th anniversary season of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival has some telling statistics: • Three of the four works performed were from the pen of female composers. • Three of the four were written in the 21st century. • One was written for the Packard Hall stage.…
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Review: Colorado College Summer Music Festival reaches milestone in style
There was a big celebration Wednesday night at Packard Hall. For regional music lovers, the return of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival is always reason enough to rejoice. This season, the call to the hall was amplified. The festival has turned 40. Colorado Springs City Councilwoman Michelle Talarico took the stage to read a…
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Review: Colorado College Summer Music Festival orchestra concert touches all the bases
Three staples of the repertoire, three wondrous performances, and three very different impacts. Had they been in the audience, the composers of the music offered at the first Colorado College Summer Music Festival Orchestra concert would have been more than pleased. The setting was the Celeste Theatre in the Cornerstone Arts Center. Just the night…
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Review: Split personality faculty concert delivers a wallop at Colorado College
With apologies to Charles Dickens, Monday’s Faculty Artist Concert in Packard Hall at the 2018 Colorado College Summer Music Festival earned the right to be titled “A Tale of Two Concerts.” Superb and electric performances seemed the only commonalty of the first and second parts of the afternoon’s music. Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Caprice on Danish and…
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On Sunday night in the grand ballroom of the Antlers Hilton, friends, family, sopranos, altos, tenors and basses joined in a gala farewell to Donald Phelps Jenkins. Jenkins, who is retiring, has been a musical institution in Colorado Springs for 54 years. After arriving in 1960 to assume a position on the music faculty of…