Breckenridge Music Festival

The title says it all: The ULTIMATE Summit County Cookbook.

It is not a good idea to peruse “Entertaining! Summit Style” — the 2010 cookbook and masterpiece of collaboration by some of the best local culinary talents created by Applause! as a fundraiser for the Breckenridge Music Festival — on an empty stomach.

The 219-page color hardcover cookbook is a class act that lends itself to an attractive coffee table display as much as it does to being a go-to guide for Summit County cookery. It is organized by seasons and local traditions, which are in turn described lovingly in sidebars and illustrated with photographs by Linda and John Mirro and Bob Winsett on every page. The layout by McGraphix Creative is whimsical and fresh and gives the book the sophisticated feel creators were going for. Click here to read more

There has been an update to the Introduction to the Music locations and the first rehearsal date for the BMF/Lord of the Mountains Choral Concert “From Bach to Beatles”

Please note that the location of  BOTH Music Introductions will be held at the Lord of the Mountains Church, 56 Highway 6, Dillon, CO 80435, (970) 468-6809

In addition, the first rehearsal has been changed to October 15, 2011 (originally October 8th)

Please click here to view more information on joining this fun event.

The Breckenridge Music Festival presents “Festival Finale Showcase,” the final concert of the 2011 summer season. The performance will feature Tim McFadden and Steve Haefner on Bizet’s “Carmen Fantasy for Two Trumpets,” as well as oboist Sandra Stimson on Street’s “Adagio for Oboe and Strings.”

The evening’s program will open with Bernstein’s renowned “Overture to Candide” and will close with Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F minor.” Click here to read more

The Breckenridge Music Festival is pleased to present a special concert at Warren Station in Keystone at 7:30 tonight that will feature a program of music with the brass players of the BMF Orchestra. Included in the evening’s entertainment will be arrangements of Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Clarke’s Prince of Denmark’s March. The concert is preceded by a sold-out “A Taste for Music” pre-concert dinner at The Ranch restaurant in Keystone. Click here to read more

Special guests Chris Willard of the Backstage Theatre and 16-year-old piano sensation Joseph Eisele join the BMF Orchestra at 6 tonight for

the first-ever Family Festival Concert, a show guaranteed to keep children glued to rather than squirming in their seats while at the same time engendering, as bestselling author Lemony Snicket put it, “a life-long addiction to classical music.” Click here to read more

Unique acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke will return to Breckenridge Thursday for the first time since his 2009 concert for the Breckenridge Music Festival’s Blue River Series.

The self-taught musician has been described as “singular” stylistically, blending influences of blues, jazz and folk music for a sound with classical precision and popular appeal. Click here to read more

The Breckenridge Music Festival is pleased to present pianist Robin Sutherland for one of the most highly anticipated performances of the ongoing Tuesday Series concerts at the Riverwalk Center in Breck. The evening’s performance will feature a selection of five Debussy Preludes and Damase’s Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Piano, and will close with Brahms’ breathtaking Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major. Click here to read more