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Chamber Music, Choral Music, Poetry, Opera, Dance
Fort Collins, Colorado

Sunday, September 20, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Season Opener: Music for Winds
We begin our series with music of the nineteenth-century German romantic August Klughardt, followed by Leoš Janáček’s exuberant wind sextet Mládí (“Youth”). We close the program with the Fort Collins première of Aires Tropicales for woodwind quintet, by Cuban jazz legend Paquito D’Rivera.

Sunday, November 8, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
The Appassionato String Quartet with guest pianist Ryan Marvel
Fort Collins’ own Appassionato Quartet returns with a performance of Bartók’s Quartet No. 1. In addition, the Quartet’s violinist Stacy Lesartre and cellist Charles Tucker will join pianist Ryan Marvel for Debussy’s charming waltz La plus que lente, and the Cello Sonata of Sergei Prokofiev.

Sunday, February 28, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Lee Ann Scherlong and friends
The noted mezzo-soprano joins the Front Range Chamber Players for Ravel’s exotic Madagascar Songs, in addition to the Western US première of Alan Louis Smith’s Covered Wagon Woman, a setting of diary entries by a woman crossing the Great Plains in 1850. The program will also include some classic jazz and popular standards.

Sunday, April 25, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Season finale: Schubert’s Octet in F for Strings and Winds
Franz Schubert’s chamber masterpiece, written for his closest friends, contains some of his most joyful and sublime music. Because of the grand scope of the Octet, performances are rare. Our entire concert will be devoted to this great work, which is said to “penetrate to the heart of Schubert’s genius.”