Join us for an unforgettable evening of music as we present our 32nd season closing concert, showcasing the magic of Broadway with the symphonic power of our Steamboat Symphony Orchestra.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of music as we present our 32nd season closing concert, showcasing the magic of Broadway with the symphonic power of our Steamboat Symphony Orchestra.

Recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Alexi Kenney was named “a talent to watch” by The New York Times. He has earned widespread acclaim across the globe and returns to Santa Fe in February 2024 performing Barber’s Violin Concerto for “American Classics.” Also on the program are works by Bernstein, Copland, and Gala Flagello. Presented as part of the Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival.

Performance for Colorado All State Orchestra

Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in a minor
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Rachel Wadell-Richards, conductor

Ring in the New Year with an extraordinary celebration at the Springs’ most iconic event with Broadway hits, timeless classics, and musical spectacles. Bid farewell to 2023 and embrace the arrival of 2024 in style.

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a family-friendly opera and has been enduringly popular since its premier in 1951. Commissioned by NBC as the first opera written for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors debuted on December 24, 1951 becoming the first network television Christmas special to become an annual tradition. Composer Gian Carlo Menotti drew inspiration for the opera from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Adoration of the Magi, which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from his childhood in Italy where gifts were brought at Christmas by the Three Kings instead of Santa Claus.

Amahl and the Night Visitors tells the story of Amahl, a shepherd boy who has a propensity to tell tall tales, and his mother. Amahl’s most recent story is about a star with a tail that moves across the sky like a chariot on fire. When three splendid strangers knock on the door and ask to rest in their tiny home, Amahl is thrilled and fascinated. When the visitors describe the miraculous child they are seeking, both Amahl and his mother are moved to give reverence to the child as well. Their humble faith conjures a miracle.

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a family-friendly opera and has been enduringly popular since its premier in 1951. Commissioned by NBC as the first opera written for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors debuted on December 24, 1951 becoming the first network television Christmas special to become an annual tradition. Composer Gian Carlo Menotti drew inspiration for the opera from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Adoration of the Magi, which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from his childhood in Italy where gifts were brought at Christmas by the Three Kings instead of Santa Claus.

Amahl and the Night Visitors tells the story of Amahl, a shepherd boy who has a propensity to tell tall tales, and his mother. Amahl’s most recent story is about a star with a tail that moves across the sky like a chariot on fire. When three splendid strangers knock on the door and ask to rest in their tiny home, Amahl is thrilled and fascinated. When the visitors describe the miraculous child they are seeking, both Amahl and his mother are moved to give reverence to the child as well. Their humble faith conjures a miracle.

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a family-friendly opera and has been enduringly popular since its premier in 1951. Commissioned by NBC as the first opera written for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors debuted on December 24, 1951 becoming the first network television Christmas special to become an annual tradition. Composer Gian Carlo Menotti drew inspiration for the opera from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Adoration of the Magi, which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from his childhood in Italy where gifts were brought at Christmas by the Three Kings instead of Santa Claus.

Amahl and the Night Visitors tells the story of Amahl, a shepherd boy who has a propensity to tell tall tales, and his mother. Amahl’s most recent story is about a star with a tail that moves across the sky like a chariot on fire. When three splendid strangers knock on the door and ask to rest in their tiny home, Amahl is thrilled and fascinated. When the visitors describe the miraculous child they are seeking, both Amahl and his mother are moved to give reverence to the child as well. Their humble faith conjures a miracle.

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a family-friendly opera and has been enduringly popular since its premier in 1951. Commissioned by NBC as the first opera written for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors debuted on December 24, 1951 becoming the first network television Christmas special to become an annual tradition. Composer Gian Carlo Menotti drew inspiration for the opera from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Adoration of the Magi, which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from his childhood in Italy where gifts were brought at Christmas by the Three Kings instead of Santa Claus.

Amahl and the Night Visitors tells the story of Amahl, a shepherd boy who has a propensity to tell tall tales, and his mother. Amahl’s most recent story is about a star with a tail that moves across the sky like a chariot on fire. When three splendid strangers knock on the door and ask to rest in their tiny home, Amahl is thrilled and fascinated. When the visitors describe the miraculous child they are seeking, both Amahl and his mother are moved to give reverence to the child as well. Their humble faith conjures a miracle.

Celebrate this holiday season with the celestial voices of multi-platinum Irish singing sensation Celtic Woman with a full orchestra. Featuring music from the all-female ensemble’s most favorite Yuletide songs performed by them over the years. Prepare for an enchanting and festive evening filled with mesmerizing music, performance, and holiday cheer. 

From Central America to West Africa, Latvia to the West Indies and the United States, this concert takes us around the world to celebrate the holidays through choral music. The centerpiece of this program will be Conrad Susa's "Carols and Lullabies" for chorus, marimba, harp and guitar. Come join us for a concert of enchanting and inspirational singing to kick off your holiday season.

From Central America to West Africa, Latvia to the West Indies and the United States, this concert takes us around the world to celebrate the holidays through choral music. The centerpiece of this program will be Conrad Susa's "Carols and Lullabies" for chorus, marimba, harp and guitar. Come join us for a concert of enchanting and inspirational singing to kick off your holiday season.

Join us for our second annual Christmas choir concert featuring the choirs of St. John’s, the handbell choir, and special guest harpist, Kathryn Harms. Free will offering taken. Featuring Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, and a collection of festive carols familiar and new. Join us in celebrating the season.

The CSU Symphony Orchestra offers an evening of symphonic storytelling. Leanna Primiani’s 1001 for Orchestra and Pre-Recorded Electronics explores Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade through the eyes of the story’s heroine, providing an alternative perspective. Chickasaw classical composer Jerod Tate retells the traditional Native American legend of the white deer as a bassoon concerto, performed by CSU SMTD faculty member, Dr. Cayla Bellamy. We close our program with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorful and evocative symphonic poem, Scheherazade. 

Richard Wagner
Overture to "The Flying Dutchman"
Franz Liszt
Totentanz Paraphrase on Dies Irae (S.126)
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Featuring
Michael F. Tietz, Conductor
Nico Giacalone, Piano

Join faculty artist Kathryn Harms as she explores the many timbral facets of the pedal harp with contemporary pieces including Brandee Younger’s Essence of Ruby, and Carter Pann’s Emerald’s on Artemis. In addition to other solo harp selections of Colorado composer Kurt M. Mehlenbacher and renowned harpist-composer Marcel Grandjany, this sparkling program also features chamber collaborations.

“Shoot for the Stars” Opening Night features “The Planets” by Gustav Holst, a seven-movement orchestral suite. Each movement is named after a planet with its own unique astrological character. The night begins with John Adams’ “Short Ride in a Fast Machine”, catching your attention with his unique use of minimalist tonal language and rhythmic dissonance, followed by Rachel Ellins performing Michael Daugherty’s new Harp Concerto, “Harp of Ages” which shows us the diversity of one of the oldest instruments while bringing in elements of 20th century pop culture—the blues and Irish rhythmic excitement.

As our Organ Spectacular enters its 8th year, the Chamber Orchestra delves into the archives of some of classical music's greatest composers. Maestro Thomas weaves a tapestry of orchestral textures in his own arrangement of Pachelbel's Ciacona in F Minor, while local organist Zahari Metchkov brings a Saint-Saëns celebration of the Allied victory in World War I to life with orchestral accompaniment. No scholarly effort has been spared to bring you these incredible, rare works for orchestra and organ.

Over the past two years, the Mile High Chapter has had the privilege of sponsoring four students through the AHS Chapter Ambassador Program. Three of these students attended the national AHS conference in Sioux Falls (June 2022) and our current Chapter Ambassador Adaleigh Hellman attended the AHS Summer Institute this June.

In order to continue to be able to provide this phenomenal opportunity for our students, we invite you to join us Saturday, September 9th, from 1:00 - 3:00 pm for a benefit concert given by Kathryn Harms, a presentation from Adaleigh about her experiences and project as a Chapter Ambassador, and an ice cream social.

This opera, composed by Missy Mazzoli and Libretto by Royce Vavrek, is adapted from the short story by Karen Russell. The Zegner’s have come to Nebraska in search of their American Dream. The ‘new’ homestead act of 1862 says they can claim the land they have settled on as their own, as long as it has a glass window in it… Written for harmonicas and guitars among other instruments the Americana feel of this opera will knock your socks off!

Composed by Giacomo Puccini and Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, come for a hilarious evening of Italian opera! Buoso Donati has just died, surrounded by his relatives, who have heard that he has left all his money to the monks. They search for the will and Rinuccio, who finds it, refuses to hand it over till his Aunt Zita promises to let him marry Lauretta, daughter of Gianni Schicchi.

Composed by Giacomo Puccini and Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, come for a hilarious evening of Italian opera! Buoso Donati has just died, surrounded by his relatives, who have heard that he has left all his money to the monks. They search for the will and Rinuccio, who finds it, refuses to hand it over till his Aunt Zita promises to let him marry Lauretta, daughter of Gianni Schicchi.