Festival-opening concert ends with a crashing wave of sound By Peter Alexander July 4 at 12:30 a.m. It was July 3, and the fireworks started early at Chautauqua. They were musical fireworks, as the 49th Colorado Music Festival (CMF) got underway last night with music by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, literally titled “Fireworks” (Feu d’artifice).…

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11.07.2025

Engaging World Premiere at CMF | Sharps & Flatirons

Well shaped performance of “the greatest First Symphony” By Peter Alexander July 11 at 12:24 a.m. The world premiere of an engaging concerto for saxophone by American composer Joan Tower topped the bill at the Colorado Music Festival last night (July 10). The Festival Orchestra was conducted by CMF music director Peter Oundjian, with Steven…

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14.07.2025

CMF Co-Commission, guests at the festival | Sharps & Flatirons

Eric Whitacre’s Murmur features violinist Anne Akiko Myers By Peter Alexander July 13 at 9 a.m. Peter Oundjian often speaks in superlatives. CMF Music Director Peter Oundjian The music director of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) says that the next two weeks of the festival (July 15–July 25) includes one of the composer’s “greatest pieces,”…

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16.07.2025

Operas in the mountains, from 1816 to 2020 | Sharps & Flatirons

Two entertaining comedies and a grim story from the home front at Central City By Peter Alexander July 15 at 1:52 p.m. Central City Opera (CCO) opened their summer season June 28 with a brisk and bubbly production of Rossini’s 1816 comedy The Barber of Seville. The summer’s other stylistically varied productions have now opened:…

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