CBS News Denver: Live Music Is Back In Vail!
Bravo! Vail Music Festival will host the first in-person concert in over a year, featured on CBS News Denver.
Bravo! Vail Music Festival will host the first in-person concert in over a year, featured on CBS News Denver.
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The Know: From sentimental to sensational: These 7 classical music happenings that will shape summer 2021
Classical music makes a nimble return to stages across the region this summer after a painful, pandemic-induced year off.
A sentimental note: “Seven O’Clock Shout,” the Philadelphia Orchestra, Bravo! Vail music festival, July 17
Composer Valerie Coleman calls her “Seven O’Clock Shout” musical anthem “a declaration of our survival.” The piece was first performed in a city that knows something about declarations when The Philadelphia Orchestra premiered it last summer. Coleman wrote it as a tribute to front-line health and safety workers and it recalls the nightly cheers that erupted around the country to thank them for their labor during the pandemic.
The Know
Ray Mark Rinaldi
Classical music makes a nimble return to stages across the region this summer after a painful, pandemic-induced year off. In some ways, things will be different, with venue changes and programming sure to serve as reminders of what we’ve all been through over the past 15 months. But in other ways it will be same, with the high level of premieres and performers that have come to define the world-class classical scene we are fortunate to have here. If you are looking for memorable moments, here are a few likely candidates.
“Seven O’Clock Shout,” the Philadelphia Orchestra, Bravo! Vail music festival, July 17.
Composer Valerie Coleman calls her “Seven O’Clock Shout” musical anthem “a declaration of our survival.” The piece was first performed in a city that knows something about declarations when The Philadelphia Orchestra premiered it last summer. Coleman wrote it as a tribute to front-line health and safety workers and it recalls the nightly cheers that erupted around the country to thank them for their labor during the pandemic.
Read more here.
United Hemispheres: Take in Classical Music and Mountain Scenery at These Summer Festivals
While artists and venues have tried to make due with virtual performances over the past year, nothing can replace the shared thrill of an in-person concert. That goes not only for pop stars but for orchestras. With music festivals set to make a comeback this summer, here are three orchestral concert series that send world-class musicians onto stages with spectacular Rocky Mountain backdrops.
United Hemispheres
Thomas May
While artists and venues have tried to make due with virtual performances over the past year, nothing can replace the shared thrill of an in-person concert. That goes not only for pop stars but for orchestras. With music festivals set to make a comeback this summer, here are three orchestral concert series that send world-class musicians onto stages with spectacular Rocky Mountain backdrops.
Sun Valley Music Festival
Famous for attracting Hollywood royalty (Ernest Hemingway, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger), Sun Valley, Idaho, is also home to the largest admission-free classical music festival in the U.S…
Bravo! Vail Music Festival
Set at the base of Vail’s ski runs, the open-air Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater provides a beautiful setting for the Bravo! Vail Music Festival…
Grand Teton Music Festival
Returning for its 60th season, the Grand Teton Music Festival once again graces Jackson Hole, Wyoming, right next to Grand Teton National Park.
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The Denver Post: Colorado’s Biggest and Boldest Art Moments of 2020
The pandemic was raging this summer when the Bravo! Vail Music Festival threw caution to the wind and went ahead with an abbreviated summer concert season. Sure, it was different than the usual fare. Instead of putting major international orchestras on stage, the programs featured small ensembles. And instead of packing the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater with throngs of classical fans, it played to the bare maximum, filling just a portion of the seats to keep spectators at safe distances. Not everything that was planned actually happened. But something about the effort felt epic, as the organization stood firm, as best it could, against its viral showstopper. It was also generous. Unlike other orchestras that took whatever cash they could this summer, Bravo! Vail also made the programming free online to anyone who wanted to see it. Those who clicked in will remember the concerts for a long time.
The Denver Post
Ray Mark Rinaldi
Playing on: Bravo! Vail Music Festival
The pandemic was raging this summer when the Bravo! Vail Music Festival threw caution to the wind and went ahead with an abbreviated summer concert season. Sure, it was different than the usual fare. Instead of putting major international orchestras on stage, the programs featured small ensembles. And instead of packing the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater with throngs of classical fans, it played to the bare maximum, filling just a portion of the seats to keep spectators at safe distances. Not everything that was planned actually happened. But something about the effort felt epic, as the organization stood firm, as best it could, against its viral showstopper. It was also generous. Unlike other orchestras that took whatever cash they could this summer, Bravo! Vail also made the programming free online to anyone who wanted to see it. Those who clicked in will remember the concerts for a long time.
Read more here.
The Strad: Bravo! Vail's Inside the Music with the Dover Quartet
In this video from this year’s Bravo! Vail festival, the Dover Quartet reflects on how the global pandemic has impacted them as individuals and as an ensemble and perform the 2nd and 3rd movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, ‘Harp’.
The players of the Dover Quartet are the cover stars of November 2020 issue.
The Strad
In this video from this year’s Bravo! Vail festival, the Dover Quartet reflects on how the global pandemic has impacted them as individuals and as an ensemble and perform the 2nd and 3rd movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, ‘Harp’.
The players of the Dover Quartet are the cover stars of November 2020 issue. To read our interview in which they discuss recording the Beethoven String Quartet cycle, click here.
Pianist: Anne-Marie McDermott celebrates 10 years as Artistic Director of Bravo! Vail
American pianist Anne-Marie McDermott chats with Pianist about 10 years with Bravo! Vail, the importance of protecting classical music, and an upcoming trip to Europe...
Pianist
Ellie Palmer
American pianist Anne-Marie McDermott chats with Pianist about 10 years with Bravo! Vail, the importance of protecting classical music, and an upcoming trip to Europe...
First, our congratulations on your tenth anniversary as Artistic Director of Bravo! Vail Music Festival. In your view, what makes Bravo! Vail such a unique and special summer festival?
What makes Bravo! Vail so unique to me is the combination of the extraordinary music-making with being located in one of the most magnificent locations on planet earth, and the incredible enthusiasm and love that our audience has for the music and for the musicians.
Read more of the interview here.
KWGN Denver: Bravo! Vail Music Box
Despite the challenges surrounding the pandemic, the Bravo! Vail Music Festival is committed to enriching its community with the power of music.
In lieu of their normal Summer festival season, Bravo! Vail hosted more than 40 community concerts this summer in their custom-built mobile performance stage, the Bravo! Vail Music Box. These concerts, though socially-distant, brought the joys of live chamber music to businesses, community groups and individuals throughout the Vail Valley.
KDVR
Despite the challenges surrounding the pandemic, the Bravo! Vail Music Festival is committed to enriching its community with the power of music.
In lieu of their normal Summer festival season, Bravo! Vail hosted more than 40 community concerts this summer in their custom-built mobile performance stage, the Bravo! Vail Music Box. These concerts, though socially-distant, brought the joys of live chamber music to businesses, community groups and individuals throughout the Vail Valley.
Watch the interview below.
Denver Post: It's OK to Stay Home
I can say, without hesitation, that the July 23 performance of Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor by the Dover Quartet was one of the best concerts I have experienced — ever.
Denver Post
Ray Mark Rinaldi
Live from Vail, the classical show goes on
The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has been attempting the improbable this summer, staging a series of concerts before a live audience during a pandemic that has shut down nearly every other classical fest in the country. It’s an abbreviated season, just a handful of small ensemble-chamber concerts instead of the usual orchestral fare, and there are just a few hundred spectators permitted in an amphitheater that normally seats 2,500…
I can say, without hesitation, that the July 23 performance of Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor by the Dover Quartet was one of the best concerts I have experienced — ever.
Read more here.
The Strad: Bravo! Vail launches re-imagined summer festival following May cancellation
The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced a re-imagined summer season from 16 July - 6 August 2020 in Eagle County, Colorado. On the agenda are outdoor concerts in the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, a mobile performance stage bringing music to local communities, and online educational presentations. The festival re-launch follows the cancellation of all originally planned events in May 2020 due to coronavirus.
The Strad
The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced a re-imagined summer season from 16 July - 6 August 2020 in Eagle County, Colorado. On the agenda are outdoor concerts in the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, a mobile performance stage bringing music to local communities, and online educational presentations. The festival re-launch follows the cancellation of all originally planned events in May 2020 due to coronavirus.
The new programme features seven chamber music performances at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, including appearances by the Dover Quartet in Brahms, Haydn, Dohnányi, Mendelssohn and Barber; violinist and founding festival director Ida Kavafian and pianist and current festival director Anne-Marie McDermott in Beethoven’s complete Violin and Piano Sonatas; and violist Paul Neubauer and pianist Amy Yang in Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. All seven of the concerts are open to a limited capacity audience and subject to social distancing regulations.
Read more here.
Vail Daily: Bravo! Vail continues kids’ music education virtually during COVID-19
When the social distancing guidelines were set for the coronavirus pandemic, Bravo! Vail swiftly transferred its kids’ music education programs to a digital format. It recently capped off a scholastic year of instrument instruction with virtual recitals for the school-age musicians showing off 27 weeks’ worth of hard work.
Vail Daily
Casey Russell
When the social distancing guidelines were set for the coronavirus pandemic, Bravo! Vail swiftly transferred its kids’ music education programs to a digital format. It recently capped off a scholastic year of instrument instruction with virtual recitals for the school-age musicians showing off 27 weeks’ worth of hard work.
“Over 700 people from across the country and the world tuned in to one of the eight recitals, and we even had a student give a shout out in Spanish to their grandparents watching from Argentina. Students invited their school teachers and friends, and Bravo staff and donors also tuned in,” said Brooklynn Phillips, director of education and engagement.
Read more here and watch below.