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DYAO Announces Job Opening
DYAO is excited to announce the opening of a full-time Director of Development & Events.
Director of Development & Events – Full Time
The mission of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra Association (DYAO) is to provide the finest possible youth orchestra programs, inspiring and educating young musicians through the performance of great works of music and offering valuable cultural opportunities to the community. The Director of Development is responsible to direct the coordination and realization of the Development programs on behalf of DYAO’s goals and objectives. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, implementation of fundraising goals and objectives as set forth by the DYAO Board of Directors; short term and long term fund development; and working in partnership with the Executive Director to develop strategic partnerships and leveraging opportunities that can enhance the organization’s abilities to raise funds.
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LCA Dead or Alive in 60 days!
We need your help NOW! Mile High United Way is no longer going to fund LCA! This is not just a request for donations, this is a plea for life – the life of Labor’s Community Agency!
LCA needs 4,000 plus union brothers and sisters or their friends to sign up for monthly donations or it will be closed down by United Way’s unwillingness to continue using union members’ contributions to fund it. We have 60 days to show our strength and solidarity. If anyone can do this, labor can!
Please click here. It takes less than 5 minutes and costs less than most people spend on coffee each week. Pass the Hat!
If labor does not help labor…who will?
Thank YOU for helping.
Maria D. Palacios
Executive Director
Labor’s Community Agency
P.S. Please pass this email onto your union brothers, sisters, family, and friends. The clock is ticking….
Click here to donate on-line to Labor’s Community Agency.
Colorado Symphony Auditions
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Announces auditions for:
Contrabassoon/Utility Bassoon (tenure track position)
Audition is scheduled for Monday, May 7th, 2012
Employment to start September, 2012
Section Violin (one tenure track position – potentially three positions)
Violinists in the Colorado Symphony rotate between sections
Audition is scheduled for Monday, May 14th, 2012
Employment to start September, 2012
Principal Bass (tenure track position)
Audition is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, June 4th and 5th, 2012
Employment to start September, 2012
Highly qualified applicants mail or FAX a one-page resume to:
Larry Brezicka, Personnel Manager
THE COLORADO SYMPHONY
Boettcher Concert Hall – 1000 14th Street, #15
Denver, CO 80202
FAX 303-293-2649
Applications must be received by April 11th, 2012
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
Volunteers Needed for Colorado Creative Career Festival
The third annual Colorado Creative Careers Festival will be held on Friday, February 24, 2012. This one-day Festival for high school students and educators will feature hands-on workshops taught by working professionals and higher education faculty, informational sessions about authentic job skills and expectations in the arts fields, and an interactive critique of submitted student projects and portfolios. The Festival will support the development of a strong student leadership organization within the arts that is open to all arts students, the awareness and understanding of growing career and technical opportunities with the Creative Arts clusters, and linkages between arts students and arts professionals.
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More Anti-Union Rhetoric from the League of American Orchestras
By Pete Vriesenga
The League of American Orchestras (LAO), formerly known as the American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) has ramped-up their anti-collective bargaining rhetoric lately. LAO’s latest publication: Fearless Journeys: Innovation in Five American Orchestras is yet another in a string of “new model” discussions that champion this message. The book claims to provide “hard evidence” through a small sample study that orchestras can become more “sustainable” by taking risks and modifying their collective bargaining agreements. Of course there is no mention of the established alternative, which is hundreds of amateur orchestras with no collective bargaining agreements that wander aimlessly to the public trough only to pay their administrators.
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts
Education Director
(25 hrs/wk)
The Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts (CMF & RMCMA) presents a sixweek summer music festival at Chautauqua in Boulder, and operates a year]round community music school in Lafayette providing music instruction on all instruments and voice to more than 500 students of all ages and abilities each week. (Visit www.comusic.org for more information). The Education Director is the principal architect of all festival and music school education programs. This position requires a strong background in music education, and knowledge of and commitment to the core principals of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, including excellence and access, which guide our music education programs.
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Upcoming Concerts
Feb. 24, 7:30pm
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
»Steppin' Out
Fri, Feb 24, 7:30 PM
Broadway meets Hollywood in this nostalgic tribute to the legendary dance couple known simply as Fred and Ginger. A program of standards by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin from the 1930s includesdancers and singers with the Colorado Symphony.
Scott O'Neil, resident conductor
Joan Hess and Kirby Ward, dancers
Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver. (303) 623-7876
Feb. 25, 7:30pm
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
»Brahms Double w/ Yumi & Silver
Sat, Feb 25, 7:30 PM
Sun, Feb 26, 2:30 PM
MOZART / Serenade No. 6, Serenata Notturna
BRAHMS / Double Concerto
FRANCK / Symphony in D minor
A sparkling Mozart Serenade and Francks most famous orchestral work frame this delightful program led by world-renowned conductor Claus Peter Flor. Concertmaster Yumi Hwang-Williams and principal cellist Silver Ainome team up in Brahms powerful and enchanting concerto, a star-studded combination.
Claus Peter Flor, conductor
Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin
Silver Ainome, cello
Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver. (303) 623-7876
Feb. 25, 7:30pm
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra
»On Feb. 25, come hear Schubert's Symphony No. 9, "The Great," plus jazzy works by Shostakovich and Gulda. Gulda's eclectic and virtuosic Cello Concerto will be played by star cellist Joshua Roman, named a 2011TED Fellow as part of the global conference on innovation.
Special Offer: Buy tickets for ourFeb. 25andMar. 24concerts, and get ourApr. 21season finale featuring the Takcs Quartet FREE!This offer is limited to the first 100 patrons.BUY NOW
Joshua Roman
THE CREATIVE & THE GREAT
Joshua Roman, Cello
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Butterman, Music Director
Sat., Feb. 25 - 7:30 PM at Macky Auditorium, CU Campus
Sun., Feb. 26 - 3 PM at St. Luke's Methodist Church, Highlands Ranch*
SHOSTAKOVICH:
Jazz Suite No. 1
GULDA:
Cello Concerto
SCHUBERT:
Symphony No. 9, "The Great"
*The Feb. 26 concert in Highlands Ranch will feature pianist Peter Mathys, winner of our Young Artists Concerto Competition, who will play the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, 1st movement, in place of soloist Joshua Roman.
6:30 PM - FREE Pre-Concert Talk featuring insights from a variety of guest speakers in Macky Auditorium
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Tickets start at $13; Students $5! You can also order by phone: 303-449-1343, ext. 2 (generally M-F, 10-6).
Macky Auditorium, Boulder. (303) 449-1343
Feb. 26, 2:30pm
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
»Brahms Double w/ Yumi & Silver
Sat, Feb 25, 7:30 PM
Sun, Feb 26, 2:30 PM
MOZART / Serenade No. 6, Serenata Notturna
BRAHMS / Double Concerto
FRANCK / Symphony in D minor
A sparkling Mozart Serenade and Francks most famous orchestral work frame this delightful program led by world-renowned conductor Claus Peter Flor. Concertmaster Yumi Hwang-Williams and principal cellist Silver Ainome team up in Brahms powerful and enchanting concerto, a star-studded combination.
Claus Peter Flor, conductor
Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin
Silver Ainome, cello
Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver. (303) 623-7876
Feb. 28, 7:30pm
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
»Trey Anastasio
Tue, Feb 28, 7:30 PM
In 2009, Trey Anastasio, of Phish fame, made his debut with the New York Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony in programs that featured his concerto for electric guitar and orchestra, Time Turns Elastic, as well as original compositions. In his first-ever Symphony tour, Trey makes a stop in Denver to perform with the Colorado Symphony.
THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT
Scott Dunn, conductor
Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver. (303) 623-7876
Mar. 24, 1:00pm
Workshop for Adult Instrumental Musicians
»A new workshop targeting adult recreational musicians is being offered through the Colorado Music Festival and Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts. Hands-on injury prevention training will be coupled with new brain-based strategies in music learning. The instructors, Carolyn Kuban, neurologic music therapist, harpist, and music medicine practitioner, and Kim Nelson, Pilates and dance kinesiology practitioner, together bring over twenty years of knowledge and experience in their fields.
Their goal in this workshop is to help instrumentalists approach playing their instruments at another level of understanding, whether it be memorizing or sightreading, mental focus and attention, alleviating posture, tendonitis, or carpel tunnel issues, or increasing endurance and relaxation while playing--
and much more.
The workshop will be held at RMCMA, 200 E. Baseline Rd., Lafayette,
on Sat. March 24 from 1:00-5:30 PM. Participants need to bring yoga mats or blankets for movement participation. For a registration form, contact Carolyn Kuban, at 303-499-0229 or kubanks@qwest.net, or pick up a form at RMCMA any weekday.
Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, Lafayette. (303) 499-0229