Today and every Monday throughout the Festival at 10:15, the Festival offers a free guided tour of the Bucksbaum Campus. If you haven’t yet toured the newer buildings there, here’s your chance. Meet at the Administration Building.
You can also take a free guided backstage tour of the Benedict Music Tent and Harris Concert Hall, today and every Monday through August 17th at noon. Meet on the Tent Plaza.
At 6 today in Harris Concert Hall, hear chamber works by Ponce, Hodkinson, and Shin-Ichirio Ikebe performed by esteemed faculty members. The program concludes with Schubert’s sunny and lively 1st Piano Trio, a work which greatly contrasts with the melancholy angst of the Friedrich Müller poems he was setting to music in Die Winterreise at the time. About it Schumann remarked, “One glance at Schubert's Trio and the troubles of our human existence disappear and all the world is fresh and bright again."
Tonight is the final performance of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette, presented by the Aspen Opera Theater and directed by Edward Berkeley. That’s at 8pm at the Wheeler Opera house.
Tomorrow at 4pm, it’s a free concert by the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra with works by Sibelius, Debussy and a performance by the 2015 Low Strings Competition winner.