“The Aspen Music Festival’s 2016 summer season will include 7 ½ weeks of programming with more than 400 events and concerts running June 30 to Aug. 21,” reports Andrew Travers in Tuesday’s (2/2) Aspen Times (Colorado). “Centered around the theme ‘Invitation to Dance,’ the season will open July 3 with Robert Spano conducting Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, and performances throughout the summer will highlight the use of dance elements in music. Themed concerts include the Hector Del Curto Quintet performing ‘Eternal Tango,’ flamenco dancer Siudy Garrido performing Falla’s ‘El Amor Brujo,’ Antheil’s Archipelago ‘Rumba,’ and Dominick Argento’s tango ‘The Dream of Valentino.’ ‘Just as every culture that I know of through history has had music, every culture has had dance; naturally they go together,’ Music Festival President and CEO Alan Fletcher said.… American symphonies running through the season include rarely performed pieces by Charles Ives, Roger Sessions, Erich Korngold, and others.… Nordic, Russian, and Alaskan composers get the spotlight … including Kaija Saariaho’s opera ‘L’Amour de loin’ and Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams’ ‘Inuksuit,’ an outdoor installation for 99 percussionists.… The festival will also host the first regional El Sistema youth orchestra camp, created in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Longy School of Music at Bard College.”
Posted February 3, 2016
