{"id":792848,"date":"2019-02-07T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colin-mcallister-to-perform-at-briggle-house-museum-in-breckenridge\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T04:36:01","slug":"colin-mcallister-to-perform-at-briggle-house-museum-in-breckenridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colin-mcallister-to-perform-at-briggle-house-museum-in-breckenridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin McAllister to perform at Briggle House Museum in Breckenridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gallery-wrapper\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-358807-973\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Colin McAllister | Classic guitarist Colin McAllister will perform his\" library=\"\" concert=\"\" on=\"\" sunday=\"\" at=\"\" the=\"\" briggle=\"\" house=\"\" museum=\"\" in=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1.jpg\" alt=\"Classic guitarist Colin McAllister will perform his \" library=\"\" concert=\"\" on=\"\" sunday=\"\" at=\"\" the=\"\" briggle=\"\" house=\"\" museum=\"\" in=\"\"\/><\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Breckenridge Heritage Alliance | Sunday's performance of the\" library=\"\" at=\"\" first=\"\" time=\"\" music=\"\" has=\"\" been=\"\" played=\"\" briggle=\"\" house=\"\" in=\"\" almost=\"\" years.=\"\" it=\"\" will=\"\" also=\"\" be=\"\" the=\"\" most=\"\" intimate=\"\" setting=\"\" for=\"\" colin=\"\" concert=\"\" so=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday's performance of the \" library=\"\" at=\"\" first=\"\" time=\"\" music=\"\" has=\"\" been=\"\" played=\"\" briggle=\"\" house=\"\" in=\"\" almost=\"\" years.=\"\" it=\"\" will=\"\" also=\"\" be=\"\" the=\"\" most=\"\" intimate=\"\" setting=\"\" for=\"\" colin=\"\" concert=\"\" so=\"\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1.jpg 413w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/MusicMuseum-ESW-020819-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\"\/><figcaption>Classic guitarist Colin McAllister will perform his &#8220;Library at Night&#8221; concert on Sunday at the Briggle House Museum in Breckenridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">History comes alive this weekend in Breckenridge. For the first time in almost 100 years, music will flow through the Briggle House Museum, the historic 1896 home of Katie and William Briggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A collaboration of Summit Music and Arts and the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance, classical guitarist Colin McAllister will perform his \u201cLibrary at Night\u201d concert in the Victorian parlor on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It should be noted that \u201cclassical\u201d refers to the style of guitar, played with nylon strings instead of steel, and not necessarily the style of music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe concert really does span a wide spectrum of time and styles,\u201d McAllister said. \u201cYou can do so much with the classical guitar. The definition is much broader than people realize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Audience members will hear arrangements of a polyphony from the 14th century as well as a modern piece written specifically for the concert by composer Christopher Adler. Inspired by author and director of the National Library Argentina Alberto Manguel\u2019s eponymous book, \u201cThe Library At Night\u201d takes listeners on a literary journey through chapters of the work using a scripted crafted from some of Manguel\u2019s direct quotes, McAllister\u2019s own musings and aural soundscapes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For instance, the Adler portion is paired with \u201cLibrary As Order\u201d because the composer wrote it as he thought about the organizational structure of a library. Meanwhile, Astor Piazzolla\u2019s tango \u201cOblivion\u201d pairs with \u201cThe Library As Oblivion\u201d and the aforementioned symphonic polyphonies are played during the \u201cLibrary As Imagination\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think the invention of polyphony as a musical texture is one of the greatest inventions of the musical mind,\u201d said McAllister. \u201cIt\u2019s something that has been very influential in music for hundreds of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The concert has been performed in various settings around North America such as churches and libraries, but this will be the first time it has been played in an intimate home. The parlor was believed to be Katie\u2019s music room where she practiced on multiple instruments and held recitals and lessons. Before the concert, Breckenridge Heritage Alliance guide Phyl Rubinstein will discuss what the room meant to the Briggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTo play in a house that someone lived there as a great lover of music and hosted a lot of events,\u201d said McAllister, \u201cI think that\u2019s fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s a fitting venue given that the last portion of the concert McAllister will play is titled the \u201cLibrary As Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIn that chapter Manguel talks about how a library allows to go to different places in the distant past as well as geographically, converse with people from all countries, without leaving home and you still have a sense of being at home,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m playing a piece that really resounds with me. It\u2019s piece that I\u2019ve been playing for 25 years that I really love and it really reminds me of my home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That blending of history and music is crucial to McAllister\u2019s artistic motivations. After ditching the saxophone for the more appealing guitar at age 16, McAllister first wanted to emulate the progressive rock sounds of Rush, Yes and Blue \u00d6yster Cult of his youth. Yet in college he switched gears to jazz, which he plays as part of the Hennessy Six, and classical guitar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With a passion for both the medieval and contemporary, avant-garde sounds of artists like Philip Glass, the classical guitar opened up a new world for McAllister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019m a person that gets bored playing the same thing over and over again,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I was younger I did have this touring gig, which was great, but it was literally playing five to six nights a week playing the same 25-30 tunes every night. I didn\u2019t last too long in that because I like the diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He also enjoys the independent nature of the instrument. \u201cMost other styles you\u2019re dependent on having a band behind you or singer or another musician, but with classical guitar you\u2019re in control of everything. You\u2019re playing the melody, harmony and percussive sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When he isn\u2019t performing, he can be found teaching at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, not too far from his hometown of Chipita Park. Along with the standard music classes, he instructs humanities courses on dystopia and the apocalypse. McAllister began studying apocalyptic literature through his love of Latin and it naturally wove its way back into music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019m really interested in the whole idea of apocalypticism and how it plays out in ancient literature and in music. Even in contemporary society, how the idea of apocalyptic has transformed across the centuries and is still popular in the public imagination. \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Though it will be briefly touched upon during Sunday\u2019s concert while performing the older works, those interested in hearing McAllister talk more about the end of the world can visit UCCS in March for the fifth, free Through A Glass Darkly symposium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colin-mcallister-to-perform-at-briggle-house-museum-in-breckenridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic guitarist Colin McAllister will perform his &#8220;Library at Night&#8221; concert on Sunday at the Briggle House Museum in Breckenridge. History comes alive this weekend in Breckenridge. For the first time in almost 100 years, music will flow through the Briggle House Museum, the historic 1896 home of Katie and William Briggle. 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