Today is Wednesday, July 9th.
Today at noon in Paepcke Auditorium, High Notes presents noted musicologist, author and cultural historian Joseph Horowitz discussing the effects of the New World on the music of Dvorak and Mahler with Aspen Music Festival and School President and CEO Alan Fletcher. The program is free.
At 3pm, it’s a free Spotlight Recital in the superb acoustics of Harris Concert Hall. Hear some of this summer’s finest student performers in an eclectic program.
The Aspen Philharmonic will be in concert at 6pm at the Benedict Music Tent, with Nikolas Naegele conducting. A work by Sydney Hodkinson, the Ravel Piano Concerto in G, and Dvorak’s uplifting 8th Symphony on this evening’s program.
At 8:30pm tonight in Harris Concert Hall, violinist Daniel Hope offers a recital featuring Beethoven’s heroic Egmont Overture in an arrangement by Jan Mueller-Wieland, and Stravinsky’s parable of a soldier who makes a deal with the devil, The Soldier’s Tale.
