aspen music festival
Founded in 1949, the Aspen Music Festival and School is an internationally renowned classical music festival that presents world-class music in an intimate, small-town setting. It is also one of the world's premier training grounds for pre-professional musicians.
Music Director David Zinman presides over the nine-week summer Festival that comprises more than 200 events, including orchestral concerts, chamber music, opera, contemporary music, master classes, lectures, and kids' programs.
This summer, Aspen abounds with CELEBRATIONS! As thunderous as a firework display, as tender as an intimate picnic in the grass, celebration is as ingrained in Aspen's fabric as the town's sun-drenched days and star-filled nights. For fifty-seven summers, music-lovers have come to Aspen to celebrate classical music, to revel in life's wonders, and generally to have a blast.
With 350-plus events, there's always something to celebrate at the Aspen Music Festival and School. This summer, we celebrate special birthdays including:
Music Director David Zinman's 70th
When you've spent a half century as one of classical music's most distinguished champions, practitioners, and educators, you make a lot of friends. So July 8, we'll pay tribute to the maestro with a specially curated selection of intimate music and anecdotes that illuminate the man behind the baton. "Music for the Maestro," the 2006 Season Benefit, will feature Mr. Zinman flanked by a marquee lineup of friends that includes Gil Shaham, Leon Fleisher, members of the Emerson String Quartet, and other A-list musical luminaries. The summer's most exciting evening will be a fitting homage to our music director in his tenth season in Aspen.
Mozart's 250th
Not a summer week will pass without the music of this flamboyant genius, who astonished, charmed, and dazzled Vienna throughout his thirty-six years, leaving behind an extraordinary legacy. The festivities peak during the July 24-30 Mozart: Prodigy or Prophet? mini-festival, with concerts and talks that explore Mozart's personal evolution, his incomparable oeuvre, and how his short-but-brilliant career inspired a Classical revolution.
Shostakovich's100th
Dmitri Shostakovich's career was pockmarked by politics behind the Iron Curtain. Yet totalitarianism inspired him to compose revolutionary, monumental music that long outlives the Soviet regime. In mini-festivals, three symphonies, and more, we commemorate the creative and personal triumphs of Russia's greatest twentieth-century composer.
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "
~Aldous Huxley
(1894 - 1963)
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