Bravo! Vail Executive Director Caitlin Murray (left) and Artistic Director Anne-Marie McDermott (right) in the organization’s portable Music Box at the Eagle-Vail Pavilion, July 27, 2020. Photo by Tricia Swenson
“Bravo! Vail’s 33rd season looked like it wasn’t going to happen this spring,” writes Tricia Swenson in Sunday’s (8/23) Vail Daily (Colorado). “The classical music series usually brings in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra and other groups for a few weeks each summer…. ‘In early May we announced the decision to cancel our season,’ said Caitlin Murray, executive director of Bravo! Vail. ‘We [resolved] to continuously examine what might still be possible.’ … By early June, Bravo! Vail had … announced a modified 2020 season. The centerpiece was the concept of hosting a small collective of musicians who would stay in Vail for the duration…. Perhaps the most innovative element of the modified festival was The Music Box, a small stage set in a custom-built trailer that could be hauled around…. The Music Box hosted 41 concerts from East Vail to Gypsum at places like day camps, senior centers, the Vail Fire department, local neighborhoods, patron homes and more…. The feedback Bravo! Vail has received about this summer’s season has been overwhelmingly positive.” Murray said, “The Music Box is here to stay.”
