Wikipedia:Historical archive/Sandbox
About the Aspen Music Festival and School and Notes
Founded in 1949, the Aspen Music Festival and School is an internationally renowned classical music festival that presents world-class music in an intimate, small-town setting. It is also one of the world's premier training grounds for pre-professional musicians. sbs
Music Director David Zinman presides over the nine-week summer Festival that comprises more than 200 events, including orchestral concerts, chamber music, opera, contemporary music, master classes, lectures, and kids' programs. Concerts take place daily at the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent, an acoustically superior and award-winning permanent structure that made its debut in 2000, the beautifully restored Victorian Wheeler Opera House, the jewel-like Harris Concert Hall, and in churches and smaller halls around town. Many events are free, lawn seating outside the tent is always free, and other tickets range up to $57.
Aspen is also where the world's brightest young musicians come to study with the world's foremost instructors, where thousands of musical influences converge in a white-hot crucible of creativity. Year after year, the Music School has inspired young musicians to mature into some of the most brilliant and creative classical artists in the world, from New York to Paris, from Tokyo to Rome. Generation after generation, masters of the craft pass along their knowledge and passion for music to students, merging lines of musical and cultural differences and creating a constantly growing cycle of artistic magnificence.
The Festival and School was founded by intellectuals and visionaries Elizabeth and Walter Paepcke of Chicago and is rooted in the lofty idea that it is the combination of art and nature that fosters the growth of the human spirit. Fifty-some years later, this guiding principle still informs every aspect of the organization.
Cool_Hand_Luke 20:38, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)