The Fort Collins Symphony (FCS), under the baton of Maestro Wes Kenney, returns to the Fort Collins’ Lincoln Center stage for its 2021-22 Season at...
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Author: JDCuebas (Jeremy Cuebas)
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Carmen Suite
Russian pianist-composer Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932) is young enough to have avoided the worst of Stalin’s “Reign of Terror” years, but still spent most of his career maneuvering Soviet expectations and restrictions. To his credit, he was one of the most successful and prolific...
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Serenade after Plato's
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to attend dinner with a carefully selected group of historical figures? What would the conversations be? How would guests respond to one another? After reading Plato’s Symposium, Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) was inspired to musically depict just that scenario. Serenade for Violin, Harp, Strings, and Percussion shows Bernstein’s intellectual approach to creating music.
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FCS to be Featured in United Symphonies of America! Event
The Fort Collins Symphony, under the direction of Music Director Wes Kenney, has been chosen to represent the State of Colorado in the first-ever national...
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Digital Programs are a Change for the Good!
Your Fort Collins Symphony is excited to announce the adoption of digital program books for our upcoming season, Reflections: The Emotions of Music. This change...
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The Brandenburg Concertos
Three hundred years ago, in August 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach was at a crossroads. For four years, he had been in the employ of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen. A true music lover, the prince was quite supportive of...
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The Fort Collins Symphony’s Silver Linings Playbook
By Mary Kopco, Executive Director and Wes Kenney, Music Director The Fort Collins Symphony (FCS), in the middle of its Platinum Season 70, hosted a...
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The Tender Land Suite (1954/1996)
America of the 1950s was a very different place than that of the 1940s. Gone were the New Deal politics of Franklin Roosevelt and the...
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Church Street Serenade (2005)
Aaron Copland and Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) have several things in common: both were born and raised in New York—Copland in the city and Hailstork...