Free for All Summer Symphony:
A Celebration of Charles Ansbacher and Bee Vradenburg
Friday, Sept. 9, 7 PM
Monument Valley Park, west side of the Fine Arts Center
In the Spring of 2011, a press release by the Bee Vradenburg Foundation announced that “A series of free symphonic concerts will return to Colorado Springs’ parks and open spaces, thanks to a $50,000 gift from the Charles Ansbacher Foundation to the Bee Vradenburg Foundation.” Subsequently the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs was selected as the inaugural orchestral performer to reprise its unique collaboration with Gospel Music Workshop of America, Colorado Springs Chapter, named Best Concert of 2010 by The Gazette. Gazette arts writer Tracy Mobley Martinez called the first concert “a gale-force performance … profound and exhilarating.”
The event was indeed a great success. The concert was attended by around 1000 people (despite a thunderstorm just prior to the concert) to great public praise. The Fine Arts Center offered free access to its galleries for the concert-attending public. A celebratory message by Colorado Governor Hickenlooper and other speeches by community leaders introduced the event.
Click Here to Read and HEAR about the historic 2010 Community in Unison Concert
Additional Concert Sponsors
Inasmuch Foundation
Colorado Creative Industries
J. H. Edmondson Foundation
Pikes Peak Community Foundation-Fund for the Arts
Fine Arts Center
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