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From London with Love Maestro Nicholas Carthy leads the BBF baroque orchestra from the harpsichord, in a program that will delight the senses with charm, passion, elegance, wit, and adoration. Soloists include cellist Guy Fishman, soprano Szilvia Schranz and mezzo-soprano Claire McCahan. Arias, concertos, and a suite of dances by Purcell and Handel, plus the first known performance of Robert Valentine’s Concerto Grosso in A Major.
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A new home for music at CU Boulder The College of Music is one of the country’s top public music programs, but current facilities are dated, crowded and disconnected. We are immensely proud of the work we do, and our students and faculty deserve a space that reflects their talent and artistry. By Jessie Bauters Associate Director of Communications, College of Music In January 2019, the college is thrilled to be breaking ground on an expansion project that will add more space to the existing Imig Music Building. This expansion will not only keep our music programs thriving, but it will encourage collaboration and innovation in growing areas like music entrepreneurship, wellness and media and technology.
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emotionally and musically. Outside, the proposed plans will dramatically change the exterior of Imig Music, providing a beautiful new gathering place for students, faculty and music lovers with sweeping views of the iconic Flatirons. Brand new rehearsal and recital facilities will provide our students and faculty with the space they need to pursue excellence in performance in ensemble and solo settings, while new classrooms and a state-of-the-art recording studio—along with dedicated suites for the Entrepreneurship Center for Music and Musicians' Wellness Program—will help expand the
definition of artistry for our students, faculty and alumni. Construction is expected to be completed in 2020. While much of the project’s cost is being generously supported by the CU Boulder campus, the College of Music still has work to do! To help us get there, the campus will match every dollar we raise toward the Imig expansion—up to $1.6 million—until Dec. 31, 2018. For more information about the Imig Music Building expansion—and to view the latest renderings of the project—visit colorado.edu/music/expansion.
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Decorating a freshly cut pine the day after Thanksgiving, tuning in for carols on the radio, watching Santa go by in the Macy’s parade— everyone has a moment where they think, “Finally! The holidays are here.”
this December. On Dec. 17, Canadian Brass, one of the most famous brass quintets in the world, will perform “Christmas Time is Here,” as part of the CU Presents Artist Series. It’s a program full of new takes on wellknown holiday classics.
For Director of Bands Donald McKinney, his seasonal reminder is CU’s beloved Holiday Festival in Macky Auditorium.
Canadian Brass—who “put brass music on the map with [its] unbeatable blend of virtuosity, spontaneity and humor” (The Washington Post)—is known for its fun, imaginative and lively musicality. The ensemble’s joie de vivre is perhaps best personified in their
“The holidays are always about the spirit of the season. It’s not so much about a day, but it’s about the spirit of coming together and creating community around a season … What I’ve loved so much since I joined the faculty here at the CU Boulder College of Music is, I come back from Thanksgiving, and then there’s the Holiday Festival.
Donald McKinney conducts musicians and vocalists in the Holiday Festival.
“For me it kicks off the whole month and the whole season,” he says. McKinney will serve as the festival’s artistic director for the first time this year—Director of Choral Studies Gregory Gentry, the festival’s longstanding artistic director, is on a sabbatical this semester—an honor McKinney says is both daunting and exciting. Audiences will have a chance to experience the iconic festival favorites like carol singalongs and the “Hallelujah” Chorus. But, of course, with a new director come several exciting new selections for the concert, too, including gospel music, jazz and a piece that is near and dear to McKinney’s heart. “‘This Christmastide (Jessye’s Carol)’ is a piece of music most people might not know. But I sang it when I was in choir in college, and I just fell in love with it—I just absolutely adored it. It is so uplifting and so remarkable ... So, when I got the opportunity to do Holiday Festival, I was adamant that I had to have it in the show.” But the Holiday Festival isn’t the only way to celebrate the season at Macky
“It’s a guaranteed fulfilling experience for the audience,” says Canadian Brass hornist Jeff Nelsen. “The arrangers have done some really interesting, deep, thoughtful rearranging of Christmas standards.”
Delight in the twinkling lights, seasonal greenery and beautiful music at the Holiday Festival Dec. 7-9; tickets start at $20.
uniforms: black tuxedos paired with white sneakers. “Christmas Time is Here,” is sure to be a reflection of that joyful and cheery vibe, a perfect fit for audiences looking to shake off Grinchy inclinations and celebrate the holidays with a bit of lighthearted, family-friendly fun. Whatever brings you to Macky in December—be it the Holiday Festival, Canadian Brass or both—the hope is for audiences to leave the auditorium feeling just a bit more merry and bright, says McKinney. “The two words I keep coming back to are festive and uplifting. You walk away thinking ‘I have the holiday spirit now.’ And I want people to feel that the moment they walk away, regardless of what they just listened to.” See Canadian Brass Monday, Dec. 17; tickets start at $21.
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Canadian Brass: Dec. 17, 2018
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Christmas Time is Here Monday, Dec. 17, 2018
Program
Renaissance Fireworks
arr. Hudson/Coletti
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel/arr. Allen
Little Fugue in G minor
Bach/arr. Romm
Bach’s Bells
Bach/arr. Coletti
Christmas Time is Here
Guaraldi/arr. Ridenour
You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
Hague/arr. Coletti & Ridenour
Intermission It’s the Most Wonderful Time
Pola & Wyle/arr. Hudson
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
arr. Robertson
White Christmas
Berlin/arr. Henderson
I Saw Three Ships
arr. Henderson
Glenn Miller Christmas
Miller/arr. Coletti
About Canadian Brass With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.” Friends Chuck Daellenbach and Gene Watts first came together in 1970 to form a brass quintet—a chamber music setting not entirely new, but never before having garnered the success and storied career Canadian Brass would achieve over the next 40 years. Initially, Watts took on the role of developing new repertoire, while Daellenbach was the moving force in marketing, publishing and managing the business. Three empty chairs were quickly filled, and together, the group’s imagination and consummate musicianship elevated the art of the brass quintet to what it is today. Here was not only an opportunity to explore the possibilities of an allbrass chamber group but a challenge to bring the sound and the excitement of brass music to new audiences.
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Masters of concert presentations, Canadian Brass has developed a uniquely engaging stage presence and rapport with audiences. Each of the ensemble’s concerts will show the full range, from trademark baroque and Dixieland tunes to new compositions and arrangements created especially for these five musicians—from formal classical presentation to music served up with lively dialogue and theatrical effects. The hallmark of any Canadian Brass performance is entertainment, spontaneity, virtuosity and, most of all, fun—but never at the expense of the music: Whatever the style, the music is central and performed with utmost dedication, skill and excellence. With a discography of more than 130 albums and an extensive worldwide touring schedule, Canadian Brass is an important pioneer in bringing brass music to mass audiences everywhere. It has sold well over 2 million albums worldwide, with 1.2 million sold in the Nielsen Soundscan era alone (since 1991). The ensemble continues to score Billboard chart positions—such as
Millions of television viewers have had Canadian Brass in their homes, thanks to appearances on The Tonight Show, Today and Entertainment Tonight. The ensemble has appeared on Evening at Pops with John Williams and the Boston Pops, Beverly Sills’ Music Around the World, numerous PBS specials, including a celebrated appearance on Sesame Street, and with many major symphony orchestras. The members of Canadian Brass were the featured artists on the soundtrack to the 1988 film The Couch Trip, starring Dan Aykroyd and Walter Matthau. Consummate artists, the quintet has also created unique and interactive videos that have gained an international audience including a series of DVDs featuring the Brass in concert and teaching. They are on the cutting edge of technology, offering their fans multimedia airplay, downloads and YouTube videos and streaming opportunities, as well as digital applications with iPhone and other smartphone carriers. You can find them Twittering, on Instagram and Facebook (with their fanbase growing daily)! The varied Canadian Brass repertoire features brass standards as well as a wide-ranging library of original arrangements. These include the works of Renaissance and baroque masters, classical works, marches, holiday favorites, ragtime, Dixieland, Latin, jazz, big band, Broadway and Christian music, as well as popular songs and standards. Having started with a limited base, Canadian Brass has created its own musical world by transcribing, arranging and commissioning more than 600 works, including critically acclaimed compositions from
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Michael Kamen, Luther Henderson, Bramwell Tovey, Don Gillis and more. It has transformed a previously neglected group of instruments with a limited repertoire into a versatile and vital ensemble that can play everything from Gabrieli to Gershwin! Canadian Brass is especially noted for its famous holiday concerts at Christmas time and was at the forefront of re-establishing Scott Joplin with today’s audiences through its research, arrangements and recordings of his “rags” and other works. Education plays a key role in the story of Canadian Brass, and each member is uniquely attuned to training the next generation of players. On their travels around the world, the players often pause for master classes, more than happy to work with students, young audiences and professionals alike. Canadian Brass is currently engaged in short residencies at various education institutions after having completed a four-year residency at the University of Toronto, spending many years as chamber quintet in residence at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and having created an innovative brass summer course at the Eastman School of Music. Its support of education is clearly viewed in the group’s outreach and interaction with El Sistema, the acclaimed global music education program founded in Venezuela. Opening Day Entertainment Group, founded in 1993, has been the home to Canadian Brass since 1996. OpeningDay.com (ODEG) hosts the group’s education platform and recordings, (distributed by IDLA) releasing more than 25 CDs on the imprint today, as well as artist development and special projects. It also supports partnerships in production and management. Opening Day is owned and directed by Chuck & MB Daellenbach. In conjunction with the Hal Leonard Corporation, Canadian Brass has made available its extensive library of brass music for performers of all levels, as well as the learning style and tools that are uniquely its own. Canadian Brass sheet music and recordings are available in its online store at CanadianBrassStore.com, while the rentals of sheet music are found at Opening Day. With four decades under its belt, Canadian Brass continues to thrill audiences around the world—and the musicians don’t look like they are letting up anytime soon! Canadian Brass is: founding member Chuck Daellenbach, tuba; Christopher Coletti and Caleb Hudson, trumpet; Achilles Liarmakopoulos, trombone; and Jeff Nelsen, horn.
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its rousing recording of patriotic songs and marches, Stars & Stripes: Canadian Brass Salute America, which spent eight weeks in the Top 25 on the Billboard Classical Chart, peaking at #2! Touring legends with an enthusiastic fan base, the members of Canadian Brass play to packed houses everywhere throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe. The group has also toured Australia, the Middle East, the Soviet Union and South America. It was the first brass ensemble from the West to perform in the People’s Republic of China (where it returned for a five-city tour to great acclaim in the spring of 2010 and several visits following, including an appearance before more than half a billion viewers on Hunan TV for Chinese New Year) as well as the first brass group to take the main stage at the venerable Carnegie Hall. On numerous occasions, Canadian Brass has been invited by the Canadian government to play for visiting heads of states, becoming one of Canada’s greatest resources and musical ambassadors.
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Back in Boulder: Sarah Chang returns to Colorado for a special solo recital
At an age when most young children enter a kindergarten classroom for the first time, Sarah Chang instead found herself attending The Juilliard School for her otherworldly talents as a violinist. Before she turned 6, she had already traded crayons for concertos. Just a few short years later, Boulder audiences were invited to be part of a historic performance, as the 8-year-old child prodigy performed with the Boulder Philharmonic in her first professional orchestra concert.
At such a young age, the commotion of a professional performance and its various players was a fascinating experience. But it was also quite daunting, and not just for Chang. Her parents, music artists themselves, were nervous, too. In fact, it’s one of the first things she remembers about her first time in Boulder. “They were both pacing around in my dressing room before the concert and fretting so much that I had to kick them out of the room and ask them to go pace somewhere else.” But they made it through the event in one piece. And shortly after, Chang went on to debut in a more official capacity with the New York Philharmonic. The rest, as they say, is history. Now, Colorado residents will have the pleasure to hear her perform a rare solo recital in Macky Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 16. In the nearly three decades since her first Boulder performance, Chang has played with virtually all the top orchestras and artists across the globe. But even as an enduring global icon, she finds herself playing in our city time and time again. It’s an area, she says, that holds a special piece of her heart. “[Boulder] gave me one of my very first opportunities when I was literally a child and was just starting out in the music business. I am always grateful to the city and its community.”
Sarah Chang, age 8, performs with the Boulder Philharmonic for the first time.
We asked which local haunts she’ll visit when she’s in town, but unfortunately, there is hardly any time—Boulder is a brief stop on a fast-paced global tour. Following her time here, she’ll spend a single day in California. The day after that? On to Switzerland.
One peek at her Twitter account shows it can a grueling schedule: “[Sometimes] we get offstage around 11 p.m. After signing sessions and photos, that means we sit down for dinner close to midnight … We are literally still eating at 2 a.m.! Then 4 a.m. pickups to the airport for the next city … Honestly, these back to back to back to back flights with concerts every day in a different city aren't as glamorous as one might think.” It helps to have the occasional adventure on the road—paragliding, time spent with friends living in the cities she tours—or to bring along comforts from home. Chang is a dedicated dog-mom and travels with her pup Chewie whenever she can. (He’s a great traveler, she says, though he isn’t joining her for her brief stint in Colorado.) Given her schedule, and the challenges of performing sometimes hundreds of concerts in a year, it is a particular treat local classical music lovers will have the opportunity to hear one of the greatest violinists of all time once again. “I love every single piece on this program! The Bartók is a firecracker of a piece—hugely fun to play; the Brahms is so heartbreakingly beautiful that it has been and will always be one of my favorite works; and the Franck is an absolute masterpiece. “It's a program of stark contrast and colors, and I'm thrilled to be playing my first recital program in Boulder.” See Sarah Chang, violin, and Julio Elizalde, piano, on Friday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. Tickets start at $20.
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The Artist Series presents performances of fine music and performing arts to which the community would otherwise not have access. The highest quality emerging and internationally recognized artists provide worldclass performances and residency activities that enhance the learning environment at the University of Colorado Boulder and the cultural life of the community. The Artist Series includes a variety of presentations from many cultures and traditions.
Benefactor ($5,000+) Nancy Berman Mary Lamy Paul Bechtner Foundation Greg Silvus Sponsor ($2,500–$4,999) Anonymous Gil and Nancy Berman Diane and Dick Dunn Daryl and Kay James Louise Pearson and Grant Couch Ellen and Joshua Taxman Patron ($1,000–$2,499) Janet Ackermann and Scott Wiesner Sue Blessing Joan McLean Braun Mark and Margaret Carson Chris and Barbara Christoffersen Maggie and John McKune Doyen and James Mitchell Toni and Douglas Shaller Evelyn Taylor Ann and Gary Yost Supporter ($500–$999) Michael and Carol Gallucci Heidi and Charles Lynch Janet and Scott Martin Bob and Sandy McCalmon Judy and Alan Megibow Jane and Cedric Reverand Mikhy and Mike Ritter Alicia and Juan Rodriguez Theodore and Ruth Smith Douglas and Avlona Taylor Larry and Ann Thomas
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Benefactor ($5,000+) Lyle Bourne and Rita Yaroush Gary and Judith Judd in memory of Fay Shwayder Norma R. Johnson Fund Peg and Chuck Rowe Takács String Quartet Sponsor ($2,500–$4,999) PJ Decker and B.A. Saperstein Marion Thurnauer and Alexander Trifunac Patron ($1,000–$2,499) Pamela Barsam Brown and Stanley Brown Marda Buchholz Ruth Carmel Kahn Tom and Carol Cech Chris and Barbara Christoffersen Mary and Lloyd Gelman Anne Heinz and Ran Yaron Carol Lena Kovner
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Personnel CU Presents
Macky Auditorium
Marketing and PR Director Laima Haley
Asst. Director for Patron Services Matthew Arrington
Executive Director Joan McLean Braun
Operations Director Andrew Metzroth Associate Director of Communications Jessie Bauters Marketing Manager Daniel Leonard Public Relations Manager Becca Vaclavik Publications Specialist Sabrina Green Graphic Design Assistant Analise Iwanski Marketing Assistant Maeve Reilly Public Relations Assistant Corinne Baud Social Content Creator Erika Haase Video Producers Jack Dorfman Madi Smith Web Content Assistant Molly Obermeier Box Office Manager Christin Woolley Box Office Services Manager Michael Casey Box Office Assistants Clare Berndt Elizabeth Collins Indigo Fischer Adrienne Havelka Autumn Pepper Curtis Sellers Financial Manager Michael Johnston Membership Benefits Coordinator Jeni Webster Recording Engineer Kevin Harbison
Director Rudy Betancourt
Music Advisory Board
Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Undergraduate Studies James Austin
Sue Baer Jim Bailey Gil Berman Christopher Brauchli Bob Bunting Jan Burton Bob Charles Paul Eklund Bill Elliott Martha Coffin Evans Jonathan Fox David Fulker Grace Gamm Lloyd Gelman Laurie Hathorn Doree Hickman Daryl James Maria Johnson Caryl Kassoy Robert Korenblat Erma Mantey Ben Nelson Joe Negler Susan Olenwine Mikhy Ritter, Chair Becky Roser Firuzeh Saidi Stein Sture Jeannie Thompson Jack Walker Celia Waterhouse
Asst. Dean for Concerts and Communications Joan McLean Braun
Artist Series Advisory Board
Asst. Director for Administration Sara Krumwiede Asst. Director for Production JP Osnes Production Managers Richard Barrett Trevor Isetts House Managers Rojana Savoye Kelly Gratz Asst. House Manager Devin Hegger
College of Music
Dean, College of Music Robert Shay
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Steven Bruns Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Operations John Davis Asst. Dean for Advancement Courtney Rowe Director of Strategic Initiatives and Special Asst. to the Dean Alexander George Asst. Dean for Budget and Finance David Mallett
Gil Berman Rudy Betancourt Joan McLean Braun Shirley Carnahan John Davis Diane Dunn Mike Gallucci Laima Haley Daryl James, President Maryan K. Jaross Ruth Kahn Andrew Metzroth Jerry Orten Erika Randall Courtney Rowe Robert Shay Gregory Silvus Ellen Taxman Ann Yost
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The University of Colorado is committed to providing equal access to individuals with disabilities. For more information, visit cupresents.org/accessibility
Parking
Paid parking is available in Lot 380 next to Macky, in the Euclid Avenue Autopark, and in Lots 310 and 204. Contact the box office or check the CU Presents website for more information.
Photography
Photography and video recordings of any type are strictly prohibited during the performance.
Food
Food is permitted in the seating areas of Macky Auditorium but is prohibited in other campus venues unless otherwise noted.
Smoking
Smoking is not permitted anywhere. CU Boulder is a smoke-free campus!
Ticket sales
Ticket sales are final; no refunds. Exchanges are subject to availability and must be made at least one business day prior to the day of performance. Subscribers may exchange tickets for free. Single-ticket exchanges are subject to a $3 exchange fee. Upgrade fees may apply in all cases. Please return your tickets to the box office prior to the performance if you are unable to use them.
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