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N BEHALF OF ALL OF US AT THE COLORADO SYMPHONY, I’d like to welcome you to our 2020/21 Season! Colorado is so fortunate to have a worldclass orchestra right here in Denver, and entering my fourth season as Music Director, I’m continually amazed and grateful for the incredible support we receive from our community. This new decade offers inspiring opportunities for us all, and to celebrate we’re bringing our full orchestra and chamber ensembles to every corner of Colorado, especially underserved areas of the state, as part of our Beethoven 2020 Initiative commemorating his 250th birthday. This celebration continues throughout the year, bringing Beethoven to over 100,000 people statewide, and culminating in a special one-night-only performance at Boettcher Concert Hall on December 16, 2020. So whether you’re in Boettcher Concert Hall or elsewhere in the state – from Grand Junction to Fort Collins or Steamboat Springs to Montrose – your Colorado Symphony will be there highlighting Beethoven’s unmatched musical brilliance. This orchestra has brought the best in live symphonic music to Colorado for nearly a century, and there’s plenty more in store for our 2020/21 Season that’s teeming with extraordinary talent and exciting repertoire. Here are a few of my personal highlights from the season: We’ll be joined by pianist Olga Kern as featured soloist on Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto during our Opening Weekend celebration. Later, we’ll perform Brahms’ A German Requiem on a program that also features Mason Bates’ Resurrexit. And we’ll cap our Classics Season along with the renowned Colorado Symphony Chorus on Mahler’s gripping Second Symphony – aptly titled “Resurrection.” But that’s just the beginning, as we’ll be featuring a host of fantastic soloists all season long, including pianists Joyce Yang and Gabriela Montero, violinists Augustin Hadelich, Karen Gomyo, and Leila Josefowicz, and cellist Joshua Roman. Our Movie at the Symphony concerts continue as we perform the scores of Disney Pixar's Coco in Concert, Disney's A Muppet Christmas Carol, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens as we screen the movies live. Of course, our holiday concert schedule is overflowing with festive fun, including A Colorado Christmas, A Night in Vienna, and after a one-year hiatus, the return of a Denver favorite, Too Hot to Handel – all part of a delightful December lineup. Our 2020/21 Season promises to be a breathtaking odyssey through some of the best music ever composed, and we can’t wait to share it with you. See you in the Hall! Sincerely,
Brett Mitchell Music Director, Colorado Symphony PRESENTING SPONSOR
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