Upcoming Events

Our opening concert for the 38th season of the Summer Music Festival 

A Concert in Honor of Peggy Shivers featuring Brian Major, baritone

June 7, 2022 * 7:30 p.m * Packard Hall
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SMF featued on PBS

SMF Part of Season 3 Now Hear This

This episode takes place in Colorado Springs, Colorado on the CC campus and with the faculty and students of the CC Summer Music Festival.

Great Performances: Now Hear This “Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music”

Streaming now or on the PBS Video app

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.

 

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