In 2006, a familiar figure to the Fort Collins Symphony, conductor and violinist Leslie Stewart, approached Scottish-born composer Jennifer Margaret Barker (b. 1965) with a...
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Author: JDCuebas (Jeremy Cuebas)
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Suite for Strings (1951)
Composers have three choices when creating folk-inspired music: to quote tunes as literally as possible, to adapt them to established forms, or to compose newly...
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Peter and the Wolf: A Virtual On-Demand Educational Concert
The Friends of the Symphony Presents: Peter and the Wolf A Virtual On-Demand Educational Concert for the Young and Young at Heart The Friends of...
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FCS Winner of New World Report’s 2020 North American Business Award
The Fort Collins Symphony was recently honored with the New World Report 2020 North America Business Award for Best Regional Orchestra. According to Awards Coordinator Katherine Benton,...
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Liebeslieder Walzes, op. 52
German composer Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) may have achieved great professional success, but, personally, he remained unlucky in love. Although involved in a number of romantic...
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Romance in C, op. 42
In 1904, the same year that Mahler’s Fifth Symphony premiered and Coleridge-Taylor made his first tour of the United States, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)...
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Adagietto from Symphony no. 5
“This Adagietto was Gustav Mahler’s declaration of love to Alma! … both of them told me this!” ~ Wilhelm Mengelberg, conductor’s score What could be more...
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Novelletten, nos. 2, 3, 4, for string orchestra
They say that good things come in small packages. A handwritten note, a sampler of Belgian chocolates, or a carefully selected piece of fine jewelry,...