SUPPORT THE 42nd SEASON of the SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 

Your support plays a crucial role in bringing the Summer Music Festival to Colorado College each June.  As a donor you will enjoy invitations to special events and early access to purchasing tickets. Your donation allows us to recruit the finest fellows, bring in outstanding professional faculty to teach and perform, and reach new audience members. In essence, your support ensures that we continue to offer world-class musical experiences and nurture the next generation of talented musicians.

FUTURE FELLOWS:
APPLY STARTING NOV. 15

• Returning fellows eligible for Young Artist Program with Festival Mozaic
• Festival Orchestra, conducted by Scott Yoo
• Chamber music ensembles
• Concerto readings
• Small faculty-to-fellow ratio
• Perform alongside Faculty Artists
• Full scholarships for all accepted Fellows
• And much more! Application deadline: Feb. 15

Now Hear This Season 3, episode 3 “Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music” takes place in Colorado Springs on the CC campus and with the faculty and students of the CC Summer Music Festival.

Drawing from his Jewish roots, modernism and American folk music, Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Aaron Copland created a distinctive American sound in both his classical compositions and film scores. Like Copland did for much of his career, host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians spend time working with students at a music festival in Colorado to strengthen their auditioning skills and better understand Copland’s music. To discover Copland’s inspiration, Yoo travels to New York to explore the Jewish music Copland was raised with as well as modernist music through performances by Cantor Daniel Mutlu, violinist Steven Copes, cellist Mark Kosower, festival music director and pianist Susan Grace and more. Later, Yoo becomes the student and learns from pianist and Copland enthusiast John Novacek about how the composer developed his signature sound, now so familiar to us all.

Go to PBS to stream the entire episode.