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About the summer season
July 1 - August 22, 2010
For general information about the Festival and School, please click here. The 2010 edition of the Aspen Music Festival and School season will continue to foster new ideas and explore musical works created in The Magic Years of 1800–1810, 1900–1910 and 2000–2010—periods of heightened activity and brilliant works. 2010 is also an anniversary year of Robert Schumann, whose works will be explored through the musical eyes of Johannes Brahms, perhaps his greatest protégé. The great American composer Samuel Barber also celebrates his centenary. Endowed with the gift of music, Barber created lasting works including Symphony No. 1, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Adagio for Strings, the Overture to The School for Scandal, and his remarkable concertos, including the rhapsodic Violin Concerto. Summer of 2010 will include a wide array of standard orchestral repertoire, including the music of Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Mahler, Bruckner, Strauss, Stravinsky, Rouse, Golijov, and much more. In addition to our artist-faculty, guest artists invited to the 2010 season include violinists Julia Fischer, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, Leila Josefowicz, Sarah Chang, Gil Shaham, Robert McDuffie, Valeriy Sokolov; pianists Yuja Wang, Lise de la Salle, Simon Trpceski, Joyce Yang, Wu Han, Stephen Hough, Jeffrey Kahane, Simone Dinnerstein, Steven Osborne, David Fray, and Marc-André Hamelin; bassist Edgar Meyer, flutist Emmanuel Pahud, and cellists Sol Gabetta, Alisa Weilerstein, Lynn Harrell, and David Finckel; conductors led by our music director David Zinman—James Conlon, Robert Spano, Edo de Waart, Nicholas McGegan, Mark Wigglesworth, Jeffrey Kahane, Andrey Boreyko, and Kirill Karabits. Ensembles-in-residence include the American String Quartet, the American Brass Quintet, the Takács Quartet, and the Ying Quartet. Sydney Hodkinson, Christopher Rouse, Steven Stucky, and George Tsontakis will be composers-in-residence. Another hallmark of the Festival has been a wide variety of lectures and enrichment events, as well as collaborations with organizations such as the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, the Aspen Institute, and Aspen Public Radio. Nicholas McGegan will once again lead a special Baroque evening of multiple concertos featuring guest artists, artist-faculty, and 2010 students, side by side. The Aspen Opera Theater Center will delve into the trilogy of operas based on Beaumarchais plays involving the life and times—from young romance to the golden years—of one family: the Count and Countess Almaviva, their servants Susanna and Figaro, and many of the characters that bring The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Ghosts of Versailles to life. The AMFS presents as many as ten events daily. Whichever day you're here, look for these regular and frequent events in the handy guide to the AMFS. (Certain weeks, the below-listed days and times may differ; details are available in late April on our Season Calendar or on weekly tearsheets available around town all summer.) Boldface events are FREE! TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS FRIDAYS SATURDAYS SUNDAYS VARIOUS TIMES EACH WEEK
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