COLORADO ARTS CONNECTION

COLORADO ARTS CONNECTION

Colorado Arts news - Part 1 of 2

Send your information and copy for the next CAC Arts News to Editor and Publisher Paul Saunders at artsnews@lpbroadband.net

THANKS!

Editor's Note:

I hope all of your art activities were up to your expectations. There seems to be so much on offer. Expectations became an issue with me this summer as it involved one persons expectations of students and the result was they performed to high praise. However, the same person's expectation of staff was such as to cause friction. I think we all have too much expectation in people sometimes and it wears us out dealing with it.

I got to thinking that critics of art and media and certainly politics operate with very high expectations. If they write well, they can be paid for their opinions. We should all be so lucky. Personnally there is so much I like in all artist's work and so many people I like that it is hard for me to be a critic. (Oh, except in politics!) But that's just me. Enjoy what and who you can.

Paul Saunders

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AND NOW FOR SOME GREAT COLORADO ARTS NEWS

Rocky Ridge Music Center

465 Longs Peak Road

Estes Park, CO 80517

website: www.rockyridge.org

970 586-4031

Sunday, August 21, 2005

3:00 PM

A Benefit Program of Chamber Music

presented by The Rocky Ridge Music Center

and

The Chamber Music Society of Estes Park

Tickets are $15 and children under 12 are admitted free.

Come to the mountains at the foot of Longs Peak on HWY #7 south of Estes Park

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Chopin's Scherzo, Op. 54 (in E Major) Margaret Patterson

Brahms String quartet in A minor op. 51#2

Norman Paulu, Martha Blum, Richard Blum and Carina Voly

"Dolly", 6 pieces for piano, four hands by Gabriel Faure

Howard and Frances Karp

Bach Trio Sonata #1 in C, BWV 1037 for flute, violin and continuo

Adagio

Alla breve

Largo

Gigue (allegro molto)

Louise Dickey, flute,

Janet Pinkow, violin*

Carina Voly, violoncello

Piano tba

* Janet Pinkow attended the Junior Seminar at Rocky Ridge in the summers

of 1995 and 1996; was concertmaster 1996.

Three or four South American Dances for flute and piano, edited by Trevor Wye

Louise Dickey, flute

Piano tba

We have so many wonderful artists for this concert. Space prohibits listing all the biographical information. However, we would like to lift up two concert artists of the "Dolly", 6 pieces for piano, four hands by Gabriel Faure.

Howard and Frances Karp

The Karps met while students at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where they began a long marriage and individual careers in piano performance as well as numerous performances for piano 4-hands and 2 pianos. Every year for 29 years, the Karp family, including son Parry, cellist for the Pro Arte Quartet , son Christopher and daughter -in-law Katrin Talbot perform the "Karp Family and Friends"concert for the University of Wisconsin Faculty series.

Frances Reiche Karp earned both Bachelors and Masters of Music degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and did additional study at Columbia and Julliard. She maintains a piano studio in Madison and has performed with the Hague Residencie Orchestra, the University of Illinois Chamber Orchestra and the Madison Symphony. Soon to be released is a recording with Parry Karp of the complete works for 'cello and piano by Ernest Bloch.

Howard Karp studied at Oberlin and Julliard where he studied piano with Rosina Lhevinne and Jack Radunsky. He was a Fullbright scholar in Vienna and did Beethoven studies in Italy with Wilhelm Kempff. Mr. Karp has performed extensively in the US and Europe including as guest recitalist for the American Liszt Society, the Maryland Piano Festival and the Shenyang Inernational Music Festival in China. During his 46 year teaching career he has taught students who are now on the piano faculties of numerous colleges and universities. To mark his retirement, a 2 CD set of his solo playing, The Art of Howard Karp" was produced under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin School of Music.

PLEASE JOIN US THIS SUNDAY AT ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER AT 3:00 PM

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I'm sorry that the information for yesterday's Arts For Colorado sponsored open informational meeting on Referendums C& D did not get in last week's CAC Arts News. pbs

Referendums C & D are Cultural Dynamite. If C & D pass, arts education and community organizations will have the first chance in four years of seeing state support for the arts grow. Budget pressures will be relieved, and our state leaders will have room to address the enormous demands Colorado's growth have put on programs like transportation, education and health care.

Few times in recent Colorado history has the cultural community faced such a clear-cut choice.

WE ASKING YOU TO ACT NOW!

Perhaps if you contact Beth Cooper, you may receive information:

Beth Cooper at beth.cooper@westaf.org or call 303.629.1166x20

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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

The Arts Endowment and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia

University have announced the second NEA Arts Journalism Institute in

Classical Music and Opera. The Institute, which will take place October 16-27

at Columbia University, is part of series of linked institutes that focus on

improving arts criticism in classical music, opera, theater and dance. For

more information, please go to

www.arts.gov/news/news05/AJI-Columbia.html

The Arts Endowment has announced the Governors' Institute on Community

Design (GICD), a new initiative to support governors' leadership in good community

design and innovative planning. Created in partnership with the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, the Institute comprises of a series of workshops that initially will

be held up to four times a year, pairing governors and their cabinets with top planning

experts and practitioners to identify strategies for well-designed planning which will

have a positive effect on American life. For more information, please go to

www.arts.gov/news/news05/gicd.html

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Theatre Night In Tickets Now On Sale!

August 2,2005

August 22 is "Theatre Night In" at Pinnacle Dinner Theatre

Greetings!

We've planned a great evening of entertainment just for you! A sneak-peak at next season's line up!

Gloria Shanstrom, Editor

August 22 is "Theatre Night In" at Pinnacle Dinner Theatre

--- Similar to our Annual Gala but not quite....

The Colorado Theatre Guild (CTG) is pleased to present

THEATRE NIGHT IN

An evening of entertainment

Selections include scenes and songs from:

• Oil – Bas Bleu Theatre Company

• Forever Plaid – Boulder’s Dinner Theatre

• Blood Brothers - Carousel Dinner Theatre

• Children’s Letters to God – Festival Playhouse

• Dead White Males – Miners Alley Playhouse

• Inherit the Wind – Modern Muse Theatre Co

• Assassins – Next Stage Theatre Company

• Ruthless! The Musical - Nonesuch Theatre

• Sound of Music - Pinnacle Dinner Theatre

• and more to come!

Theatre Night In is presented on Monday, August 22 at The Pinnacle Dinner Theatre, 9136 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton

Cocktails at 6pm Entertainment at 7pm

Tickets are $20; $15 CTG members and includes free appetizers, entertainment and a cash bar.

For reservations contact: Gloria Shanstrom at 303-778-7724 or email Shanstrom@comcast.net Or order tickets online at www.coloradotheatreguild.org.

The mission of the Colorado Theatre Guild, a 501(c) 3 organization, is to promote growth and excellence in live theatre in Colorado through collaborative efforts in education, advocacy and promotion. Originally formed in 1976 as the Colorado Theatre Producers Guild, the organization went through reorganization in 1999 in hopes of attracting a broader membership of theatre professionals and supporters of live theatre and was renamed the Colorado Theatre Guild.

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ArtistsRegister Monthly,

an e-newsletter from ArtistsRegister.com.

This e-newsletter is sent only

to those who have requested it.

View this month's

ArtistsRegister Monthly at: http://www.artistsregister.com/blog

Or copy and paste the link in your

COLORADO:

Into the Night

Into The Night is a series of photographs and prints by ArtistsRegister.com member Elaine Ricklin that will be exhibited at Spark Gallery from August 26th through September 17th 2005. The opening reception is Friday, August 26th 6-9pm. Coffee with the artist is scheduled for Saturday, September 17 from 1-5pm. Gallery hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 1-5pm. Everything is free and open to the public. Elaine has always been a night person and her favorite time of day is twilight. All of the photographs and prints in the exhibit reflect this attitude. Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO.

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PIKES PEAK CENTER ENCORE FUND TEAMS WITH

PLANTERA GROUP TO PRESENT ART SHOW FUND-RAISER

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, August 26, 2005 from 5-8pm at The Plantera Group located at 731 N. Weber St. in downtown Colorado Springs. Event is $15 per person and includes host bar, delectable treats and enchanting music. Plus, the cost of admission benefits the Pikes Peak Encore Fund’s efforts to restore the beautiful Pikes Peak Center in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs! Call 886-0456 for more information.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO ~ Art enhances the quality of life. Come support your local artists while also benefiting your community. The Plantera Group and the Pikes Peak Center Encore Fund present an art show fund-raiser featuring artwork by local artists Tim Davis, Sara Ware Howsam and Davoth. Join us to celebrate art, cuisine and music.

Tim Davis – “Decontextualization was what Mark Arnest called my photographic work and I think he was right. There is extraordinary beauty within ordinary objects that can be seen if one can ignore the context. There is a Japanese concept called Wabi-sabi which, simply said, is the appreciation of the beauty that occurs in aging and decay. I embrace that concept fully and hope that it is evident in my work. For me, photography, like playing music, is a solitary meditation of discovery. It takes me out of time and place.”

Sara Ware Howsam – “My recent work is a celebration of ornamentation. Art is historically linked to ornamentation, from the carved gargoyles and stained glass windows of the Gothic Cathedrals to the ceiling frescos of the Renaissance and the gilded winged angels of the Baroque. I am inspired by nature’s ornamentation: the ruffled iris, jeweled hummingbird or strutting peacock. A vital part of ornamentation is the joyous excess of repetitive details and shapes. Using stamping, stenciling and painting I repeat motifs to capture nature’s exuberance. Using acrylic glazes allow me to manipulate the painted surface, layer upon layer (appox. 10-25 layers of paint), giving depth to the ornamented landscape.”

Davoth – “I was born on a brisk day of September; blowing in on a moist wind and lodging myself in a Chicago hospital bed. Since that day, I have experienced more life than is directed by law or society. In my humble opinion, it is quite important for an artist to have diverse experiences and influences to keep art fresh for him or her personally. This is a fortunate side effect of having an exciting life. My desire is to create objects and paintings that reflect the curiosity and humor that I see around me. It has become apparent to me, that I have always been an artist and that the continuation of my life will be a series of experiments in bringing the art that I am into fruition as tangible objects for my own enjoyment and to share with the quivering eye of the unsuspecting viewer. I also have a desire to inspire the humans around me to lead more creative lives, whether or not they are artists themselves.”

The Plantera Group is a uniquely independent financial planning firm whose mission is to provide an outlet for local artists to display their work, while raising money for local charities.

The Pikes Peak Center Encore Fund is seeking private donations to preserve and polish our community’s acoustical and cultural gem.

For more information about this unique event that integrates business and art, or to RSVP by August 15, 2005 to the opening celebration, call The Plantera Group at 719-886-0456. The full exhibit will be showing during normal business hours Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm and Fridays 9am-noon through October 28, 2005. No appointment necessary to view artwork.

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Estes Park Village Band To Present Final Summer Concert

Join us for Thursday Night Live!

The Estes Park Village Band will perform its final summer concert on Thursday, August 18. The free concert, part of the Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park's Thursday Night Live Concert Series, will begin at 7:00 pm in the new Performance Park on west Elkhorn Ave. The concert will feature Broadway songs, novelty numbers, Big Band hits and outstanding soloists.

Audience members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets for the outdoor concert.

This is the band's 23rd year of performing for the Estes Park community and its visitors.

Sharing the conducting duties for Thursday's program will be Loren Johnson and Chuck Varilek.

Johnson will begin the concert with the march "The Boys Of The Old Brigade" by W. Paris Chambers. The band will then perform "Selections From Mary Poppins", including "Feed The Birds", "A Spoonful Of Sugar", "Chim Chim Cher-ee", "Step In Time" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". Lynette Johnson will be featured as flute soloist on the next selection, "Carnival Of Venice" as arranged by Anton Coppola. The rest of the flute section will then join Lynette in the Eric Osterling flute section feature, "Beguine For Flutes".

The band will then perform the main movie theme from "Star Wars" by John Williams.

Varilek will begin his portion of the program with "The Orange Bowl March" by Henry Fillmore. The band will continue with Harold Walter's "Instant Concert", a medley of thirty songs condensed into a three minutes and 10 seconds composition. Dr. James Mack, a music professor from California who visits Estes Park in the summer, will be featured as clarinet soloist on the next song, "Minuet In Swing". "Gallant Men", a march by John Cacavas, will be performed next, followed by the traditional Irish tune, "Be Thou My Vision". The band will continue with "The Syncopated Clock" by Leroy Anderson, followed by Karl King's circus march, "Circus Days". "Big Bands In Concert" will be performed next, featuring big band hits including "A String Of Pearls", "Satin Doll", "Intermission Riff", "Sophisticated Lady" and "Opus One". The band will finish the concert with "El Capitan", a rousing march by John Philip Sousa.

The Village Band is an affiliate member of the Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park. The group received a Community Service Grant from the town of Estes Park in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Some of the music performed at this concert was purchased through the grant awards.

The Estes Park Village Band is a community band made up of musicians from the Estes Park area as well as from surrounding communities. New members are always welcome to perform with the band. Rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings, starting at 7:30 pm in the Estes Park Middle School bandroom. The band will be on hiatus after this concert for the next few weeks.

Contact Chuck Varilek at 586-8776 for more information about the concert or the band.

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ARTS ALIVE! in Ft. Collins

Become a member of Arts Alive! Add your events to our Centralized Calendar. To become a Member, go to www.fctix.com. Click on Membership at the bottom right corner. Fill out the forms. Benefits? You get a link to your own website. You can list your events. We can spread the word about the local arts together! Other benefits are listed at www.fctix.com.

New Belgium Bike to the Movie Nights: Enjoy another season of great outdoors fun, bike to the movies at New Belgium Brewing Company, AND support Arts Alive. All proceeds from beer sales each night go to Arts Alive. A great way to bring the summer to a wonderful close. $2.00 entry fee. $2.00 beers. Movies start at dusk.

August 11 Pee Wee's Big Adventure

August 18 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

August 25 Raising Arizona

September 1 The Royal Tenenbaums

September 8 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

September 15 Napolean Dynamite

Also, look for the Arts Alive booth at NewWest Fest, August 20 and 21. We'll have information about membership, flyers and brochures on local arts events, meet representatives from local arts groups, acquaint yourself with www.fctix.com.

Arts Alive will move to its new office inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, 201 S. College, Suite 103. September 1.

WORKSHOP: Arts for Colorado and the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts in collaboration with Arts Alive is presenting Strong Arts / Strong Communities workshop, October 20, 12n-6pm. Strong Arts / Strong Communities will explore the role of arts in economic revitalization, tourism, education, and civic life. Arts organizations will receive training in crafting and delivering their message, advocating on arts issues, forging partnerships that include business, local government, civic groups and the media, and increasing community participation. Business and civic leaders will increase their understanding about building effective collaborations with arts organizations and leveraging the arts for economic and community development. Program fee is $25.00. For more information or to register, visit: www.cbca.org or contact Anne Macdonald, at Arts Alive 482-2232 or info@artsalivefc.org. Location TBA.

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Contact: RJ Betancourt

(rudy@swallowhill.com; 303.765.2488)

(I'm sorry, I do not have any information on date or location for those of you not familiar with the festival. pbs)

Guitar Wizard Willy Porter to substitute for Eddie From Ohio

at Swallow Hill's Folk Festival at Four Mile Historic Park

Denver — Due to a serious and unexpected illness in the family, Eddie From Ohio has had to cancel their appearance at the Festival. However, we are please to announce that the fantastic guitarist Willy Porter will perform as the Festival headliner instead.

Willy Porter is a seasoned solo performer who honed his songs and his chops traveling across America and Europe playing to captive audiences everywhere. His songs are equal parts muscle and intimacy, and reveal a rarely achieved relationship between an artist and his craft. Hailing from the swamps of Milwaukee, he forged a connection to his fans from his earliest performing experiences that would continue to reverberate even when opening for the audiences of artists like Tori Amos and Paul Simon. On one legendary night in Nashville, in front of a room full of some of the world's best guitarists, Porter, with just his voice and an acoustic guitar, earned a standing ovation from an audience primed to see electric guitar-hero Jeff Beck. Porter has long been known for his innovative and expressive guitar playing which the press have called everything from "startling," to "dazzling" to "killer." The Boston Globe compares his playing to speed picker Leo Kottke. But it’s his songs that have been gathering more attention of late. More information about Willy Porter can be found at http://www.flemingartists.com/wp.html, or www.willyporter.com.

The Swallow Hill Folk Festival is the major fundraising and benefit event of the year thanks to the more than 150 regional musicians who are donating their music for the event. With more than 100 volunteers helping produce this event, the Swallow Hill Folk Festival's purpose is to showcase the very best of Folk, Roots and Acoustic musicians of the Front Range and Colorado.

A Colorado non-profit organization with twenty-six years of grassroots advocacy for folk, acoustic and roots music, Swallow Hill Music Association is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States. With more than 2,000 members — some of whom are also volunteers—, Swallow Hill provides a place to celebrate music that is rarely heard elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain Region. Three concert venues house more than 150 performances a year, featuring some of the world’s great artists as well as up-and-coming new talent. Swallow Hill provides a valuable and affordable extra-curricular educational resource to the community with more than 50 music instructors involved in more than 240 adult classes and 70 children’s classes annually.

After the Folk Festival, we are taking a well-deserved break, as far concerts go. However, we wouldn't like to miss the opportunity to remind you about the great concerts we have between September and December, thinking ahead of the holidays. Here's just a short list, with an online presale for concerts in November and December (available today at noon!):

Pierre Bensusan (9/16) | John Stewart (9/17) | Tommy Emmanuel in Denver (9/23)

Roger McGuinn (9/24) | Tommy Emmanuel in Colorado Springs (9/25) | Tom Paxton (10/1)

Singer-Songwriter Day (10/8) | Tom Russell & Eliza Gilkyson (10/24) | Storyhill (10/15)

Battlefield Band (10/29) | Trout Fishing In America (11/4) | Lowen & Navarro (11/5)

Brooks Williams (11/11) | Gordon Bok (11/18) | Patrick Ball (11/19) | Tish Hinojosa (11/26)

The Persuasions (12/2) | Eddie From Ohio (12/9) | Cheryl Wheeler (12/10) | Greg Brown (12/16 & 17)

From our partner: Rocky Mountain PBS

Rocky Mountain PBS is Colorado’s premier PBS outlet and it is gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary on the air in January 2006. In the meantime, please watch Rocky Mountain PBS, especially during its exciting August Pledge/Membership Drive. During the drive, you can enjoy numerous special music programs in addition to the other high-quality fare.

One of such programs is Celtic Woman. This program brings exceptional new Irish stars to your screen in a spectacular performance recorded live at Dublin's prestigious Helix Centre. Musical Director, conductor, composer and arranger David Downes is yet another prodigious young Irish talent-currently working as musical director of the Riverdance show—who has garnered the forces of the Irish Film Orchestra, the Anontas Choral Group and these new and exciting soloists to create what is a truly moving and momentous spectacle.

For other program information, please visit rmpbs.org.

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Public Service Announcement for Immediate Release

through September 14, 2005

The Boulder County Arts Alliance is seeking Boulder County artists for month-long exhibits at the Barnes and Noble Booksellers cafe in Boulder. Applications for January through June 2006 exhibits are due Thursday, September 15, 5pm in the BCAA office. Applications are available from the Boulder County Arts Alliance, 303-447-2422 or www.bouldercountyarts.org.

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Charlotte LaSasso

Communications Coordinator

Boulder County Arts Alliance

2590 Walnut St., Suite 9

Boulder, Colorado 80302

303-447-2422