{"id":2443532,"date":"2019-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/concert-series-to-connect-the-valleys\/"},"modified":"2019-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T06:00:00","slug":"concert-series-to-connect-the-valleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/concert-series-to-connect-the-valleys\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert series to connect the valleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.615221987315\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-304911-377\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent | Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.<\/strong><br \/>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent | Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191-1.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.<\/strong><br \/>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent | Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/symphonyinthevalley-gpi-0426191-2.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.<\/strong><br \/>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/concert-series-to-connect-the-valleys\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/concert-series-to-connect-the-valleys\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Symphony in the Valley plans on concluding its historic concert season on a high note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Taking place on Mother\u2019s Day weekend, the performance, \u201cMusic That Connects Us,\u201d appropriately features John Rutter\u2019s \u201cMass of the Children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As part of the 25th anniversary celebration, Aspen Choral Society and High Country Sinfonia will join Symphony in the Valley for three nights on three different stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe basically all said, \u2018OK, we are not going to have three separate spring concerts,\u2019\u201d Aspen Choral Society Music Director Paul Dankers said. \u201cWe are all going to join together and do one spring concert that we can all collaborate on together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The series kicks off May 10 at Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, and will include a rare third performance in Glenwood Springs this year, with the second concert in Rifle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cNormally we just do two,\u201d Symphony in the Valley Conductor and Music Director Kelly Thompson said of the season\u2019s final concert series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">However, according to Thompson, The New Ute Theater Society was very enthusiastic about bringing a third show this year to Rifle. It\u2019s an idea Thompson and his musical colleagues welcomed with open arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Downvalley stops will be at the Ute Theater and Events Center, 132 E. Fourth St., in Rifle on May 11, as well as Glenwood Springs High School, 1521 Grand Ave., on May 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As Symphony in the Valley commemorates its 25th year, Aspen Choral Society also celebrates roughly 42 years in existence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Dankers described John Rutter, who is still living, as a British composer who became especially popular in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cJohn Rutter came along and started writing music that used contemporary harmonies and had a whole new sound to it,\u201d Dankers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Speaking to Rutter\u2019s work \u201cMass of the Children,\u201d Dankers explained how the piece has a lot of moving parts and challenging time signatures, which calls for help from the Aspen Choral Society and the High Country Sinfonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTo bring three, and especially two very old community musical arts groups in the Roaring Fork Valley \u2014 and we\u2019re talking about people from Aspen to Glenwood and beyond \u2014 together is a pretty major and wonderful thing,\u201d said Wendy Larson, High Country Sinfonia cellist and coordinator. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s why the name of the concert is called the \u2018Music That Connects Us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Larson is a veteran performer for all three organizations. She&nbsp;performed at Symphony in the Valley\u2019s first concert 25 years ago, as well as Aspen Choral Society\u2019s debut concert almost 42 years ago, in addition to High Country Sinfonia\u2019s first performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">High Country Sinfonia was formed in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThree conductors, lots of music \u2014 it will be a great weekend of shows,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cThe more as a society and a world where we can come together the better off we are. \u2026 It doesn\u2019t matter your political party, religion, whatever, we just come together and make music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/concert-series-to-connect-the-valleys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal at Glenwood Springs High School on Wednesday.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Members of Symphony in the Valley practice during an evening rehearsal [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 11:09:10","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}