Post on 15-Nov-2021
Happy Hour TuesdaysJuly 11/18/25
Concerts craft brewed with classical music, rock, pop, jazz and fusion.
7/11: Two to Tango on piano Christopher O’Riley + Pablo ZieglerTwo brilliant contemporary pianists share the stage in a program featuring two-piano arrangements of tango music.
7/18: Time for three Steve Hackman, conductor Part of the new generation of classically trained musicians this trio mixes it up — 90s hip-hop, grunge, and bluegrass — with pop and classic standards.
7/25: clasicalapalooza Steve Hackman, conductor Don’t miss the world premiere of Steve Hackman’s newest music mash-up — Lady Gaga, Adele, Beyonce, Daft Punk, Beck, Mumford and Sons and more with the CMF Orchestra!
Come early To these pre-concert mixers!
Featuring free
samples from
local Boulder
restaurants,
breweries, coffee
shops, and more.
6/29: Opening Night olga kern, pianoShostakovich: Festive Overture, op. 96
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.1, op. 10 in D-flat major
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op. 43,
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No.2, op. 27 in E minor
7/6: red violin–New World–Bernstein; Cristian Măcelaru, Conductor; Elina Vähälä, violinBernstein: On the Town —Three dance episodes
Corigliano: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (The Red Violin)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, op. 95 in E minor (From the New World)
7/13: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH Michelle DeYoung, Mary Wilson, Jason Baldwin, Keith MillerBetsy Jolas: A Little Summer Suite (North American premiere)
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a wayfarer)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, op. 125 in D minor (Choral)
7/20: French mini-fest Benedetto lupo, piano
Debussy: Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Ravel: Piano Concerto in D (for the left hand)
Debussy: Ibéria
Ravel: La Valse
7/27: the PlanetsWorld Premiere: Julian Wachner, Click! Commission
Scriabin: Le Poème de l’extase (Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No. 3)
Holst: The Planets, op. 32 (with visual footage)
8/3: mahler’s ninthMahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major
thursdays Fresh FridaysJuly 14/21/28
A concert experience —remixed.
Start at 6:30 pm with an hour-long
concert featuring some of the
world’s greatest music, and still have
time for a post-concert dinner and
drinks — the night is still young!
7/14: Beethoven’s Ninth Mary Wilson, Michelle DeYoung, Jason Baldwin, Keith Miller Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, op. 125 in D minor
7/21: French mini-fest Benedetto lupo, piano
Debussy: Ibéria
Ravel: Piano concerto in D (for the left hand)
Ravel: La Valse
7/28: Holst: the Planets
Sit back and soar through the universe with featured visual animation from NASA.
saturday + sunday @ Chautauqua
July 1/8/22/29
7/1: olga kern, Piano recitalOlga Kern loves Boulder, and we love her! Join us for the return of this electrifying Van Cliburn competition-winning pianist when she returns to the historic Chautuaqua auditorium.
7/8:Chamber MusicSchubert: String Quartet No. 12, D. 703 in C minor, “Quartettsatz”
Schubert: Cello Quintet, D. 956 in C major
7/22: French mini-festBenedetto Lupo, pianoDebussy: a selection of solo piano music
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1
7/29: chamber music boris allakhverdyan, clarinet + Members of the CMF OrchestraBrahms: Clarinet Quintet, op. 115 in B minor
Tchaikovsky: (arr. Takemitsu): Autumn Song
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452 in E-flat major
July 2/16/23/30
7/2: magnificent MozartGiora Bernstein, conductor Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K. 385 in D major, (Haffner)
Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D Minor
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins’ BWV 1043
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, K. 504 in D major (Prague)
7/16: stewart goodyear, pianoVaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Shostakovich: Concerto No.1 in C minor for Piano, Trumpet and Strings
Britten: Young Apollo, op.16
Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 strings
7/23: French mini-festFauré’s French SoireeBenedetto Lupo, pianoFauré: Selections from Masques et bergamasques
Dukas: Villanelle for Horn and Orchestra
Saint-Saëns: Romance, op. 36
Fauré: Ballade, op. 19
Chaminade: Concertino for Flute and Orchestra, op. 107 in D major
Saint-Saëns: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld (excerpts)
7/30: classically jazz boris allakhverdyan, clarinet Weill: Suite from Three Penny Opera
Copland: Clarinet Concerto
Joplin: Two Ragtimes: The Entertainer, arr. Schuller and Maple Leaf Rag, arr. Schuller
Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Gershwin: Lullaby for Strings
Milhaud: La création du monde
Season finale
8/4 Gil Shaham,
violinBeethoven: Violin Concerto,
op. 61 in D major
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, op. 92 in A major
Young People’s COncert
July 8 @ 10AM Kids $5 / Adults $10
music takes flight Scott Terrell,
conductorChildren ages 4+ will find their
groove to orchestral music.
More fun after the show on the great lawn with costumed
characters, hands-on instruments, creative face painting and more.