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

Sunday, September 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Season Opener: Brass and Organ
The Boulder Brass returns to our series with a program of music, newly arranged by director Michael Allen, for Brass septet and organ. Special guest organist Ken Mervine, performing on Trinity Lutheran’s new organ, joins the ensemble for an evening of magnificent sound. Music of Mahler, Wagner, Strauss, Grieg, Franck, and Saint-Saëns.

Sunday, November 2, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
An Old-fashioned Melodrama
Narrator Jim Heaton reads Enoch Arden, Tennyson’s long narrative poem about a shipwrecked sailor and the world he leaves behind in a small English village. Fort Collins pianist Silvana Santinelli plays Richard Strauss’ dramatic music written especially for this work.

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Special Choral Concert
The New Front Range Singers, under the direction of Robert Molison, return for an afternoon of choral music from the Renaissance to modern times, with works by Benjamin Britten, American composer Jackson Berkey, and the seventeenth-century English composer Peter Philips. Trinity’s new organ will be included; our program honors Cecilia, the Patron Saint of Music and, according to legend, the organ’s original inventor.

Sunday, May 3, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Season Finale: Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale
Stravinsky’s miniature drama, based on a Russian folk tale about the soldier who sells his violin to the Devil, was last performed by the Front Range Chamber Players in 2002. We present this new production as our season finale, together with music for brass trio to open the program.