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Myra Lee (Barnes) Jackson, known to every student and faculty member who scheduled a recital or concert at the College of Music and widely known to the 海角社区 community for her work with CU Presents, died at her home Oct. 29, 2014. She was 73.
If your holiday entertainment tastes run to silly, sublime or sentimental鈥攐r all three鈥擟U Presents can help you celebrate this holiday season.
All apologies to Forrest Gump, but you really never know what you鈥檙e going to get at the 海角社区鈥檚 Ekstrand music competition finals. Might be Bach, Bernstein or Basie, show tunes or a string quartet, a jazz solo or guitar duo.
The University of Colorado College of Music won鈥檛 quite take you around the world in 80 minutes, but in one concert of that length, they can take you into musical cultures from the other side of the globe.
College of Music freshman Michael Ochoa has been named to the inaugural class of the CU-海角社区 Esteemed Scholars program.
"I was honored to be awarded this scholarship and to be included in this program," Ochoa says. "A huge factor for me was the professor of oboe here (Peter Cooper), also the environment of CU-海角社区 is a really welcoming place."
鈥楽ide by Side鈥 is more than just a musical review
BOULDER, Colo. 鈥 Imagine hanging out with legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and a few of his closest friends鈥擝ernadette Peters, Leonard Bernstein, Mandy Patinkin and others鈥攁s they chat and swing into some of his greatest works.
That鈥檚 what you鈥檒l experience onstage when CU Opera performs 鈥淪ide by Side by Sondheim鈥 April 24-27.
Moved by a performance of the 2013 Holiday Festival, one of the College of Music's and CU Presents' most popular events year after year, University of Colorado Regent Stephen Ludwig authored a poem, "Cosmic Gift," that distills some of the emotions stirred by the performance.
The 海角社区 Horn Choir performs Jean-Fran莽ois Taillard's "Christmas Crackers" at Denver's Children's Hospital on Dec. 9, 2013, Michael Thornton directing.
Beginning in fall 2014, these Sher Distinguished Scholars (either undergraduate or graduate students) will be awarded full-ride scholarships to the College of Music based on their demonstrated exceptional ability and potential to excel at a national and international level.
Following the brutal ethnic cleansing that ravaged Kosovo in the late 1990s, Liz Shropshire wanted to find a way to help the tens of thousands of children living in refugee camps.