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Simone Dinnerstein
Simone Dinnerstein Denver audiences had a treat when pianist Simone Dinnerstein performed May 18th for Friends of Chamber Music audiences after an April snowstorm cancelled her appearance. The April date was scheduled last minute to substitute for Piotr Anderszewski who had the flu. Simone said aptly from the stage, “I’m the sub for the sub.” […]
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A Lasting Partnership: Eanger Irving Couse and Joseph Henry Sharp
Writer B.K. Loren described the New Mexico sky when he wrote, “the bright blue sky and the white clouds ended abruptly, and a precise line of silver-gray intersected the blue.” In 1893, Joseph Henry Sharp (1859 – 1953) visited Taos and took his memory of its crystalline sky to Paris to share with Ernest Blumenschein […]
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Craft: Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio
The superb violinist Christian Tetzlaff led the Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio with the cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in a breathtaking performance Tuesday, April 30th at the Newman Center. Christian Tetzlaff was at once a craftsman exhibiting his craft. He swayed with his violin coaxing the exact notes he needed from his instrument, but he […]
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Bang on a Can
“the composers at the heart of Bang on a Can have sustained what may be the most convivial vanguard in modern music history.” Alex Ross,The New Yorker The eclectic music ensemble Bang On A Can invaded the Newman Center for Performing Arts for their first performance in Denver on Friday, April 12th. In 2017, the […]
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The $475 Million Shed
The widely anticipated Arts Center – The Shed – opened April 5th in Hudson Yards at the north end of the Highline in New York. The building is anything but a shed with a cost of $475 millon. Michael Bloomberg donated $75 million for the center dedicated as the Bloomberg Building. Michael Cooper of the […]
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Ready for Ragtime?
Ragtime music is coming to Denver. On April 9th at 7:00 pm Reginald Robinson an “antiquarian” of our generation will take over the Steinway for a solo concert in the historic Baur’s building. The self-taught ragtime pianist out of Chicago will be presented by MAS Eclectic concerts on the Chandelier stage at Dazzle. Ragtime music […]
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Now at Denver’s Robischon Gallery – May 4th
The pressure on contemporary artists is unrelenting. They must possess technique and an excellent field of vision, as well as absorb and project color. In 2019, exhibiting visual artists have an additional responsibility to create art that provides social or political commentary. The impact of urbanization on the environment is presented at Denver’s Robischon Art […]
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Americano Live at the Vilar
photos by David Spira Music is for people and auditoriums are sacred temples where music and magic happen and time is dismissed, according to Nacho Arimany, percussionist with the Americano Trio. The audience on a snowy night, March 11th, in Beaver Creek, Colorado was treated to an evening of Americana by a very Spanish trio: […]
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World Music at Gates Hall
Gates Hall, on Wednesday night March 6th, was filled with tongue trilling, drumming, and strumming from a buzuq (a long -necked fretted lute), an oud (lutelike with a bent neck) and a qanun (a string instrument like a zither). Two old world music groups collaborated for a theatrical presentation that celebrated the tradition of music […]
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Bartok, Janacek and Schiff: Men in Search of a Country:
Composers Bartok and Janacek and the pianist Sir Andras Schiff could not escape the politics that surrounded their lives. Schiff, known for his virtuoustic performances at the keyboard, is Hungarian like Bartok. Janacek, from Czechoslovakia, and Bartok were heavily influenced by the folk music of their respective countries. Bartok played the piano before he could […]
The Lively Arts (redux) 