Breckenridge Music Festival

TWO Articles posted in today’s paper:

Breckenridge Music Festival and Hang Time Custom Picture Framing call for submissions

The Breckenridge Music Festival and Hang Time Custom Picture Framing announce its call to artists for the 2012 Breckenridge Music Festival Poster.

The Breckenridge Music Festival bring music to Summit’s schools

Music in the Schools is Breckenridge Music Festival’s arts education outreach program for the children and youth living in Summit and neighboring counties. It is a critical part of our mission and an important service to the community. Arts education teaches creative, innovative thinking and collaborative skills, as well as measurably increasing academic success and positively impacting careers.

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Even if you don’t know whether you’re a bass, tenor, alto or soprano (quick cram: If you’re male and can sing pretty low, you might be a bass and if you can sing pretty high, you might be a tenor; for females, its soprano for high notes and alto for low), as long as you can read music and can commit to four half-day rehearsals, Len Rhodes and Linda Shea want to see you tonight or Saturday morning for an introduction to what may be the largest community choral performance put together (and disbanding) in less than a two-month time frame.

The rehearsals culminate in a performance Nov. 13 at Lord of the Mountain Church in Dillon. Leonard Rhodes, director of music at the church, and Linda Shea, director of instrumental music at Summit High School, will work with participants to interpret programming including the sacred music of J.S. Bach, compositions by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky and John Rutter, Broadway tunes and a Beatles medley. Click here to read more

The summer has come and gone by so quickly that we still can’t believe the awesome music we experienced!

We’re all sad the summer is gone, but no need to worry – we’ve got 7, yes, SEVEN great winter series concerts lined up for you.

From our “Bach to Beatles” Choir concert to the energetic spirit of the Art of Elan Chamber group, the BMF has put together a great winter concert series.

In addition, after hearing the rave reviews about our Summer Champagne Concerts, the BMF is proud to announce that we will be presenting two Winter Champagne Concerts.

Please visit “Winter Series” under the “Concert Schedule” tab to see the entire Winter Concert Series.

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