SMF welcomes the CATALYST QUARTET for our Fall Intermezzo Season as we continue to celebrate 40 Years of the Festival at Colorado College

 October 30, 2024

7 p.m.,  Packard Hall

Program includes works by D'Rivera, Piazzolla, Gershwin, and Ravel

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General Admission $30;    Donors $25;    Non CC Students $5;     

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SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 1984-2024

“WE BELIEVE IN THE UNITY THAT CAN BE ACHIEVED THROUGH MUSIC AND IMAGINE OUR PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS WITH THIS IN MIND, REDEFINING AND REIMAGINING THE CLASSICAL MUSIC EXPERIENCE.”

-WE ARE THE CATALYST-

    Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished… playing with earthy vigor,” the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet was founded by the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Organization in 2010. The ensemble (Karla Donehew Perez, violin; Abi Fayette, violin; Paul Laraia, viola; and Karlos Rodriguez, cello) believes in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine their programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience.

Thank you to all who took the time to vote for us. We are a 2024 winner of the Gazette's BEST IN THE SPRINGS as a LOCAL FESTIVAL!  

We look forward to celebrating our 40th Anniversary Season and all the music with you!

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.

WATCH THE TRAILER 

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.