Community Engagement
The CU Summer Music Academy kicks off this month with plenty of musical and social activities lined up for the more than 200 students attending.
Students, baby直播app and artists workshopping new opera to debut on Friday, June 12.
The Panoramic Flutist seminar brings nearly 50 flute players to Boulder this year for a week of master classes, workshops and even yoga.
When the sixth season of CU NOW kicks off this month, one of the opera professionals mentoring composition students will be CU-Boulder alumnus Mark Campbell.
CU NOW, a three-week workshop that introduces vocal and composition students to the leaders in their field, begins its sixth year at CU-Boulder on May 26.
The students were invited to perform as part of the Monterey Jazz Festival鈥檚 prestigious Next Generation Jazz Festival, which annually brings more than a thousand middle-school, high-school and college big bands, combos and ensembles to 鈥渄uke it out for the glory of performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September,鈥 according to the festival鈥檚 website.
Natalie Merchant is used to it by now鈥攖he startled gasp from the audience when she emerges on stage.
The reaction says more about our celebrity-crazed culture than it does about Merchant, embraced by fans in the 1980s as the hip vocalist and literate lyricist/songwriter for the alt-folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs.
Following the brutal ethnic cleansing that ravaged Kosovo in the late 1990s, Liz Shropshire wanted to find a way to help the tens of thousands of children living in refugee camps.