The Aspen Music Festival and School today announced to the public a $25 million gift from Kay and Matthew Bucksbaum, the largest gift in the town's history. The funds will support the programs and facilities of this premier music center, providing the bedrock funding for the building of a new campus that will be named the Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Campus in their honor.
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Join Aspen Community Theatre for the Opening Night Party for “She Loves Me” at the Wheeler Opera House on November 8th. Meet & greet the cast and crew following the performance. Refreshments will be provided by our local restaurants.
Tickets are on sale for ACT’s fall production “She Loves Me.” This romantic musical premiered on Broadway in 1963 with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harrick, the songwriting team behind "Fiddler on the Roof." The story centers on Georg and Amalia, two feuding shop workers who are unaware that they are romantic pen pals.
Performances will be held at the Wheeler Opera House on November 8 – 10 and November 14 – 17 at 7 pm with a Sunday matinee on November 11 at 2 pm. Tickets can be purchased at Aspen Show Tickets – 920-5770 – www.aspenshowtickets.com
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Michael Monroney, the director for “She Loves Me” recently announced the cast for Aspen Community Theatre’s upcoming fall musical. Actors and actresses throughout the Roaring Fork Valley auditioned for roles in this Tony award-winning production.
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Opera, like beer and coffee, is an acquired taste, but I would urge anyone who has yet to get the flavor to get thee to the Wheeler Opera House Sunday night for the final performance of Mozart's "Cosi fan tuttte," presented by the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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Having royally had it, on April 1, 2005, hundreds of peaceful but righteously indignant civilian volunteers of the month-long Minuteman Project assembled in the storied southeastern Arizona city of Tombstone to petition their government for a redress of their grievances—probably thinking they'd catch some hell for doing so, but not knowing the holy-half of it.
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It grows easier for me to like Theatre Aspen every time I go under the replaceable tent at Rio Grande Park, particularly on the opening night of a new summer season. Don't forget it was only moments ago that Theatre Aspen was still "Theatre in the Park," a company that was getting better and better but still had the feel of community theatre. Just a few years ago, before the most recent facelift, the tent could feel more like a prison, blowing both too hot and too cold depending on the evening, with blankets provided by management.
Now a new structure for Rio Grande Park is in the works as part of a major overhaul by the City of Aspen. And "It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues," the new musical revue that opened the 2007 summer season last week--with continuing performances for the next several weeks--continues McClendon's tradition of kicking off the season with upbeat musical numbers that even a Scrooge would like.
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So okay there was this bee, see. He-she-it was a yellowjacket buzzing around the room when the Aspen Science Center's "Science and Media Summit" was meeting on the campus of the Aspen Institute.
I'm not supposed to talk about what is going down behind closed doors during the summit, but no one is going to stop me from talking about the bee. What happened to the bee is on the record until I'm told differently.
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Aspen Summer Words featured seven of Africa’s finest new scholarly heroes, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, along with 19 other award winning and bestselling authors from America.
With the heat of the afternoon sun beating down, listeners took comfort inside the cooled underground night-club where the ‘beat’ coming from literary legends representing their countries and their heritage took the stage as they conducted short readings and storytellings that literally captivated the crowds.
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