The Fort Collins Symphony to Perform FREE Community Concerts. This summer, the Fort Collins Symphony (FCS) will be Out & About performing three pop-up community...
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FCS Announces Season 2022-23: Escape to New Realms
Who doesn’t love a chance to escape: to walk away from the ordinary, the mundane, the everyday? A flight through the portals of music – the...
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Meet Maestro Wes Kenney
For our 2021-22 season, Reflections, we have highlighted many FCS musicians on our Facebook and Instagram pages under the campaign #MusicianMonday. To close out this...
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What is a Symphony?
From favorites like Beethoven’s 5th to symphonies that you’ve never heard before, this blog post and podcast episode gives a brief overview of the history...
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Symphony no. 1 in B-flat,
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Date of Composition: 1841 Duration: 35 minutes It is easy to forget that there was quite a bit...
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Ge Xu (Antiphony)
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Date of Composition: 1994 Duration: 8 minutes Chen Yi is just one of a noted group of composers...
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Date of Composition: 1894 Duration: 10 minutes Debussy was a critical figure in the transition from 19th-century romanticism...
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Children's Corner, arr. Caplet
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Date of Composition: 1908/1910 Arranged for orchestra by André CapletDuration: 17 minutes 1905 marked a special time in...
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Interview with Science Consultant Dr. Erin Macdonald
Dr. Erin Macdonald is a tattooed one-woman STEM career panel with recognition as a researcher, speaker, engineer, and consultant before her current career. She now...
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Get Lost in Space with the Fort Collins Symphony and Dr. Erin Macdonald
Resistance is futile… Buckle up Sci-Fi fans and join the Fort Collins Symphony, the Lyric Cinema, the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, and FoCo Comic...
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The Friends of the Symphony Present: The Animated Orchestra
Help! There’s a ferret running loose in the orchestra! The Animated Orchestra: A Musical Adventure for the Young and the Young at Heart, sponsored by...
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Interview with Composer Gregory Smith
Composer Gregory Smith sits down to discuss his compositional process, his piece “The Animated Orchestra,” and how he writes excellent educational works to engage young...
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Suite of Dances
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes The music of Florence Price has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Price worked hard to overcome racism...
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Mozart, Horn Concerto no. 3 in Eb Major, K. 447
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Unless you are a horn player, the horn is not the instrument usually associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
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Symphony no. 4 in A Major,
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes In 1830, the world was Felix Mendelssohn’s for the taking. Just barely into his twenties, the young German...
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FCS to perform Signature Concert #4: Anxious, Tender & Jaunty
The award-winning Fort Collins Symphony (FCS), under the baton of Maestro Wes Kenney, will perform a concert of Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century music at...
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Interview with Hornist Oto Carrillo
Thank you for joining us for this interview with Hornist Oto Carrillo! Today, Jeremy talks with Oto about Mozart’s 3rd Horn Concerto, why he started...
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Have we mentioned lately how much we adore you?
Pandemic times have not been easy, but with your enthusiastic participation in the Fort Collins Symphony’s outdoor & streamed concerts, attendance at vaxxed & masked indoor...
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Adagio for Strings
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes … Wistful. Nostalgic. Touching. Few pieces bring to mind as many emotion-filled adjectives as Samuel Barber’s Adagio for...
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Serenade for Strings
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Few composers have possessed the ability to reflect emotions within their music as well as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky....
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Memorial to Martin Luther King
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Oskar Morawetz was one of Canada’s most successful composers. Yet many audiences have not heard his music. Morawetz...
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Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments displays several sides of the Russian-French-American composer’s compositional personality. Its clear form,...
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Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman no. 1
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes American composer Joan Tower certainly fits into the category of “uncommon.” As a female composer coming of age in the...
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Holy Conundrum, Batman!
The Fort Collins Symphony’s upcoming February 5 concert, “Solemn, Joyful & Ecstatic,” requires 73 talented musicians to perform the Romantic and contemporary music you will experience (in-person or...
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Friends of the Symphony to Host Virtual “Meet the Guest Artist” Event
The Friends of the Symphony will host a virtual “Meet the Guest Artist” event on a Zoom platform at 12 noon on Thursday, February 3,...
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5 Fascinating Facts about Barber’s Adagio for Strings
5 Fascinating Facts about Barber’s Adagio for Strings Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings is one of the most popular pieces of (classical) music ever written....
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Cellist Anthony Elliott on the importance of the “Memorial to Martin Luther King”
Thank you for joining us for this interview with guest Cellist Anthony Elliott. Today, Jeremy D. Cuebas sits down with Mr. Elliott to talk about...
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What does a Conductor Do?
Learn how to pick your perfect seat at the symphony by considering your best view, sound, and experience.
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What is a Concerto?
What is a Concerto? When you go to an orchestra concert or start learning about classical music, you’re likely to encounter many new words. The...
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Meet your new FCS Staff Members
Meet your new FCS Staff Members:Kate Henry and Jeremy Cuebas Dear Fort Collins Symphony Patrons, Thanks to the generous support of our community, the FCS...
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How to Pick the Best Orchestra Seats
Learn how to pick your perfect seat at the symphony by considering your best view, sound, and experience.
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Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 55, “Eroica”
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes If just one adjective were offered to describe Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the word “more” might come to mind....
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Piano Concerto no. 1 in G Minor, op. 25
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes It is sometimes easy to forget that Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) died at just 38-years-old, perhaps because his published...
