SPECIAL PROJECT SPONSORSHIPS
Sponsorships are available starting at $2,000
Interrupted
Partially sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts
This project aims to rejuvenate small ensemble works by composers who perished during the Holocaust by creating new compositions for a chamber orchestra. A pilot concert featuring sample ensemble pieces and a pre-concert lecture by Professor Ofer Ben-Amots (Colorado College Music Department) was performed on March 4, 2020 (more information: Interrupted Music Project). The project attracted a matching 2020 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works grant for the commissioning of new works and their performance.
The 2021 concert will feature:
The 2021 concert will feature:
- Fusion of shorter chamber works by Dick Kattenburg (Romanian Melody for Violin, Cello and Piano), Hans Krása (Dance for String Trio), Zikmund Schul ("In the Shadow of Your Wings" for String Quartet) and Erwin Schulhoff (Five Pieces for String Quartet). The arrangements will be bridged by original music and bookended with a short introduction and postlude. This new composition serves as an overview of the composers' immense creativity during the horrific time and integrates a variety of moods and experiences depicted by them (by Ofer Ben-Amots).
- Expansion of Grand Duo for Violin & Cello by Paul Hermann into a complete Double Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra in the hope of giving the piece broader recognition (by Thomas Wilson).
- Brundibar Suite by Hans Krása
What Makes You Beautiful
Sponsored by
Peak Arts Prize 2020
McCauley Fund of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation
Peak Arts Prize 2020
McCauley Fund of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation
This sensory-friendly dance-concert in collaboration the Colorado Ballet Society hopes to reach audiences with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It won the Peak Arts Prize 2020 in the large organization category (more information here: Sensory Friendly Family Concert) and further received support from the McCauley Fund that supports arts programming focused on reaching audiences with disabilities. The orchestra plans to leverage this project to launch a sensory-friendly family series in the Pikes Peak region.
Due to COVID restrictions the project is modified for online dissemination in spring 2021. The recording of the inaugural program, Carnival of the Animals, will be interlayered with appropriate animation and narration to convert it into a reciprocal interaction video for national ASD audiences. This sensory-friendly dance-concert in collaboration with the Colorado Ballet Society hopes to reach audiences with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It won the Peak Arts Prize 2020 in the large organization category and further received support from the McCauley Fund that supports arts programming focused on reaching audiences with disabilities. The orchestra plans to leverage this project to launch a sensory-friendly family series in the Pikes Peak region.
Due to COVID restrictions the project is modified for online dissemination in spring 2021. The recording of the inaugural program, Carnival of the Animals, will be interlayered with appropriate animation and narration to convert it into a reciprocal interaction video for national ASD audiences.
Due to COVID restrictions the project is modified for online dissemination in spring 2021. The recording of the inaugural program, Carnival of the Animals, will be interlayered with appropriate animation and narration to convert it into a reciprocal interaction video for national ASD audiences. This sensory-friendly dance-concert in collaboration with the Colorado Ballet Society hopes to reach audiences with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It won the Peak Arts Prize 2020 in the large organization category and further received support from the McCauley Fund that supports arts programming focused on reaching audiences with disabilities. The orchestra plans to leverage this project to launch a sensory-friendly family series in the Pikes Peak region.
Due to COVID restrictions the project is modified for online dissemination in spring 2021. The recording of the inaugural program, Carnival of the Animals, will be interlayered with appropriate animation and narration to convert it into a reciprocal interaction video for national ASD audiences.
To Overcome:
Voices of the African Diaspora
Partially sponsored by
The National Endowment for the Arts
Michele Strub-Heer and Jordan Strub
The National Endowment for the Arts
Michele Strub-Heer and Jordan Strub
This special concert will feature art songs and vocal works with orchestra by African Diaspora composers in partnership with Art Song Colorado and the Shivers Fund. The project attracted a matching 2020 NEA Art Works grant and it features rarely heard works from different time periods. The auditions for the 2021 performance are currently in the process.
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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges (1745-1799)
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Overture- L'amant anonime
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Night songs
Dunbar Songs |
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Abu for Narrators and Chamber Ensemble
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I want to go home
Loisaida, I love you |
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Echoes from the Journey
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My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
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Double Negative- Nerdcore Hip-hop
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Enough
Partially supported by The Bee Vradenburg Foundation
This collaboration with TESSA (www.tessacs.org, a local domestic abuse help non-profit in town) aims to present an artistic consciousness-raising response to the domestic abuse issues exacerbated by COVID quarantines. The impactful, emotive program of vocal works, intended as an empowering hope-raiser, will center on the nationally renowned Jake Heggie opera “To Hell and Back” which articulates the myth of Persephone in a modern-day spousal abuse setting and will be complemented by several topically relevant musical theater songs (from shows like Hadestown, Waitress, Carousel. Kiss me Kate) and poetry/journaling testimonials submitted by Colorado Springs domestic violence survivors. It is being scheduled for October 2021.
Blind Injustice
Partially Supported by The National Endowment for the Arts
This opera composed by African American Scott Davenport Richards and premiered by Cincinnati Opera in 2019, explores the true stories of six people who were tried, convicted, imprisoned, then ultimately freed by the Ohio Innocence Project. The orchestra plans to present it in collaboration with the Opera Theatre of the Rockies
(https://www.operatheatreoftherockies.org) in 2022.
This opera composed by African American Scott Davenport Richards and premiered by Cincinnati Opera in 2019, explores the true stories of six people who were tried, convicted, imprisoned, then ultimately freed by the Ohio Innocence Project. The orchestra plans to present it in collaboration with the Opera Theatre of the Rockies
(https://www.operatheatreoftherockies.org) in 2022.
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