{"id":797778,"date":"2019-07-18T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/playing-a-new-tune-breckenridge-music-focuses-on-song-and-dance-for-2019-festival\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T03:20:00","slug":"playing-a-new-tune-breckenridge-music-focuses-on-song-and-dance-for-2019-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/playing-a-new-tune-breckenridge-music-focuses-on-song-and-dance-for-2019-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing a new tune: Breckenridge Music focuses on song and dance for 2019 festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.8594594594595\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-368933-157\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Breckenridge Music | The theme of the three-week 2019 Breckenridge Music Festival is\" songs and highlights mid-20th century class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The theme of the three-week 2019 Breckenridge Music Festival is &#8220;Songs and Dances&#8221; and highlights mid-20th century compositions.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Breckenridge Music<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1.jpg\" alt=\"The theme of the three-week 2019 Breckenridge Music Festival is \" songs and highlights mid-20th century><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Joe Kusumoto | The end of KidsFest culiminates in a free family concert called \u201cThe Story of Lieutenant Kij\u00e9\u201d at the Riverwalk Center on Saturday, July 20 at 4 p.m.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>The end of KidsFest culiminates in a free family concert called \u201cThe Story of Lieutenant Kij\u00e9\u201d at the Riverwalk Center on Saturday, July 20 at 4 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Joe Kusumoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"The end of KidsFest culiminates in a free family concert called \u201cThe Story of Lieutenant Kij\u00e9\u201d at the Riverwalk Center on Saturday, July 20 at 4 p.m.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Joe Kusumoto | The second annual KidsFest has a variety of activities \u2014 such as a collaborative collage, drum circle and instrument petting zoo \u2014 for children to do during the first day of the Breckenridge Music Festival.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>The second annual KidsFest has a variety of activities \u2014 such as a collaborative collage, drum circle and instrument petting zoo \u2014 for children to do during the first day of the Breckenridge Music Festival.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Joe Kusumoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"The second annual KidsFest has a variety of activities \u2014 such as a collaborative collage, drum circle and instrument petting zoo \u2014 for children to do during the first day of the Breckenridge Music Festival.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Tom Fricke | Leon Joseph Littlebird will perform at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31, and Wednesday, Aug. 7, at the Edwin Carter Museum. Part of the festival's Tiny Porches series, the event blends music and storytelling as Littlebird focuses on the indigenous music of Colorado.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"14\">\n<p><strong>Leon Joseph Littlebird will perform at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31, and Wednesday, Aug. 7, at the Edwin Carter Museum. Part of the festival&#8217;s Tiny Porches series, the event blends music and storytelling as Littlebird focuses on the indigenous music of Colorado.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Tom Fricke<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Leon Joseph Littlebird will perform at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31, and Wednesday, Aug. 7, at the Edwin Carter Museum. Part of the festival's Tiny Porches series, the event blends music and storytelling as Littlebird focuses on the indigenous music of Colorado.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Breckenridge Music | Soprano Jessica Aszodi will perform on both Thursday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 10.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Soprano Jessica Aszodi will perform on both Thursday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 10.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Breckenridge Music<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"Soprano Jessica Aszodi will perform on both Thursday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 10.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-5.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Breckenridge Music | Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival will join Jayme Stone's Folklife on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival will join Jayme Stone&#8217;s Folklife on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Breckenridge Music<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-5.jpg\" alt=\"Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival will join Jayme Stone's Folklife on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-6.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Breckenridge Music | Breckenridge Music Festival artistic director Steven Schick will conduct many of the orchestral pieces throughout the weeks.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Breckenridge Music Festival artistic director Steven Schick will conduct many of the orchestral pieces throughout the weeks.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Breckenridge Music<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BreckMusic-ESW-071919-1-6.jpg\" alt=\"Breckenridge Music Festival artistic director Steven Schick will conduct many of the orchestral pieces throughout the weeks.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/playing-a-new-tune-breckenridge-music-focuses-on-song-and-dance-for-2019-festival\/?#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/playing-a-new-tune-breckenridge-music-focuses-on-song-and-dance-for-2019-festival\/?#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Since 1981, Breckenridge Music has been providing the community with opportunities to hear classical and contemporary sounds. For the 2019 Breckenridge Music Festival, artistic director Steven Schick returns to highlight mid-20th century compositions with the organization\u2019s theme, \u201cSongs and Dances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Over time the festival has been trimmed from five weeks to three, but there\u2019s still plenty to do and see. Here is a breakdown of all that is happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Week One<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Kicking things off for the second year on Saturday is the family friendly KidFest, a free day of activities and music for all ages. At 11 a.m. in the South Branch Library, 103 S. Harris St., kids 5 and under will hear from the book \u201cTrombone Shorty\u201d \u2014 written by the titular musician performing later in August \u2014 as they explore singing and storytelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Throughout the afternoon on the Arts District Campus, children can participate in a collaborative collage and drum circle, test instruments in an \u201cinstrument petting zoo\u201d and learn elements of music with orchestra Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The day culminates at 4 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center in a free family concert called \u201cThe Story of Lieutenant Kij\u00e9,\u201d a satire about what happens when someone tells a little white lie. The performance features actors from Breckenridge Backstage Theatre Company, young, award-winning pianist Paul Sri and an original script by Amy V. Fenton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe take the audience through some exercises of creating stories with sounds you can make on your body or with your mouth or anything that\u2019s nonverbal essentially,\u201d said Breckenridge Music executive director Tamara Nuzzaci Park. \u201cThen we take it to how composers use music to convey mood and stories nonverbally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After the concert, be sure to bring your own blanket for a community picnic and bluegrass concert at 5 p.m. on the Riverwalk Center lawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Chamber concerts with Champagne and hors d\u2019oeuvres will be held on Sunday. The first features the music of George Gershwin performed by a brass quintet at the Trowbridge home at 11 a.m., while the second has pianist Robin Sutherland playing the music of Mason Bates, Libby Larsen and Johannes Brahms at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The first large-scale classical evening of the festival is Bach, Mozart, Sutherland and Friends. Pianist Sutherland, who retired from 45 years with the San Francisco Symphony last year, takes the Riverwalk Center stage with other musicians at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Meanwhile, the first contemporary night of music gives life to this year\u2019s theme with a concert of Frank Sinatra songs sung by Las Vegas local Steve Lippia and conducted by Schick. Titled Simply Swingin\u2019 with Sinatra and Friends, the event happens at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverwalk Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s those quintessential 1950s songs and albums everyone knows and loves,\u201d Park said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Then Saturday, July 27, is the first session of Acoustic Flow, a morning of yoga paired with music on the Riverwalk Center lawn that was first seen during the 2018 Breckenridge International Festival of Arts. The free activity happens at 8 a.m. each Saturday and Sunday during the festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Later that night, Mozart\u2019s Jupiter Symphony will be performed by the festival\u2019s 45-person orchestra and conducted by Schick at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Week Two<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The week starts with another Champagne concert, this time featuring the music of Henri Tomasi, Jean Sibelius and Franz Joseph Haydn at 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 28, at the Louis home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Over at Breckenridge Theater, Views from 9,600\u2019 highlights American composers Gabriella Smith and Irving Fine in addition to Hugo Wolf and Johannes Brahms. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A new initiative this year is Tiny Porches, a series of free events set in historic properties throughout the town that weave together original music and storytelling based on Breckenridge\u2019s past. Guests are encouraged to bring their own chair to the half-hour sessions that feature local musician Leon Joseph Littlebird, composer in residence Max Wolpert and local historians Sandra Mather and Rick Hague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The first group of performances are Wednesday, July 31, at 6 p.m. at the Edwin Carter Museum and Milne Park while the second set are Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 6 at the Edwin Carter Museum and Barney Ford Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Haydn\u2019s Farewell Symphony, performed at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center on Thursday, Aug. 1, features classical music and Nathan Olson on violin. However, to tie it to the theme, it also includes a more modern piece by Ruth Crawford Seeger, the stepmother of folk singer and activist Pete Seeger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAll of these pieces and people were really a part of developing the American sound,\u201d said Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Similar to Acoustic Flow, last year\u2019s BIFA featured a combination of orchestral music and meditation in an event called In The Light Of Air. Now, going by Sonic Mediation, the popular activity returns to the Riverwalk Center on Friday, Aug. 2, at 8 p.m. Presented with Meta Yoga Studios, people are invited to lay on the venue\u2019s stage while listening to Terry Riley\u2019s atmospheric \u201cIn C\u201d piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a really unique opportunity to experience contemporary classical music in a different setting where you open your mind and your heart and your body to the experience,\u201d Park said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Arguably the most unique event of the festival, Deep River of Song has Boulder-based Jayme Stone, his group Folklife, Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival and the festival orchestra join together for a night of folk music based on the work of Alan Lomax. An early 20th-century ethnomusicologist, Lomax is known for traveling mainly around the South and taking field recordings of blues and folk music, thereby preserving the sounds of Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For this project, Stone researched the recordings and arranged them for Folklife as Wolpert wrote orchestra transcriptions. Under Schick\u2019s conducting, the audience can expect to hear Stone on banjo and vocals, Rachel Ries on guitar and keyboards, Sumaia Jackson on fiddle, Andrew Ryan on bass, Kevin Matthews on drums and Paine on vocals as well as a variety of instruments such as the washboard and saw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a really beautiful program of Jayme original music, these folk tunes that Alan Lomax unearthed and then we transcribed for this unique combination of classical and folk instruments,\u201d said Park. \u201cIt should be an evening of really interesting, totally original programming that you probably can\u2019t find anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The concert happens on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Week Three<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Another round of Champagne concerts takes place this week. First the Gasperut home hosts one on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 7 p.m., then a second happens on Sunday, Aug. 11, at 11 a.m. at the Hughes home and finally the Rodon home hosts the last concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But before the festival ends, the orchestra will perform A Bouquet of Folk Music on Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Breckenridge Theater. The concert highlights the work by Franz Berwald, Ferde Grof\u00e9, Grazyna Bacewicz and Caroline Shaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Copland\u2019s Appalachian Spring brings a trio of American classics to the Riverwalk Center on Thursday, Aug. 8., at 7:30 p.m. Soprano Jessica Aszodi starts the concert by singing Samuel Barber\u2019s \u201cKnoxville: Summer of 1915,\u201d and then 13 musicians play an original ballet version of Aaron Copland\u2019s \u201cAppalachian Spring.\u201d After an intermission, the concert concludes with music by Florence Price, who as the first African-American woman to have her compositions performed by a major orchestra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Beethoven\u2019s Seventh Symphony effectively closes the festival on Saturday, Aug. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center. Aszodi returns to lend her vocal talents to the marriage of classical and folk songs that are emblematic of the festival.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/playing-a-new-tune-breckenridge-music-focuses-on-song-and-dance-for-2019-festival\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the three-week 2019 Breckenridge Music Festival is &#8220;Songs and Dances&#8221; and highlights mid-20th century compositions.Courtesy Breckenridge Music The end of KidsFest culiminates in a free family concert called \u201cThe Story of Lieutenant Kij\u00e9\u201d at the Riverwalk Center on Saturday, July 20 at 4 p.m.Courtesy Joe Kusumoto The second annual KidsFest has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 03:26:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}