Yes, museums, restaurants and entertainment venues are reopening, but everyone can, or even needs, leave.
In the spirit of staying at home (and perhaps should), here are some amazing and diverse features for home entertainment.
The bravado! Vail Music Festival tried the fantastic this summer, hosting a series of concerts in front of a live audience, a pandemic that has closed almost every single classical festival in the country. It’s an abbreviated season, just a handful of small chamber concerts together instead of the same ancient orchestral rhythm, and only a few hundred spectators are allowed in an amphitheater that can hold 2,500 seats.
Is the live game the right thing to do when it would be best for everyone to stay away? I’m not sure. Is the music spectacular? I can say, without hesitation, that the functionality of the 23rd of July of the Haydn String Quartet in D minor through the Dover Quartet is one of the most productive concerts I have ever seen.
Of course, I watched the simultaneous live stream online and it was my advice to enjoy the last time on August 6 that put superstar pianists Yefim Bronfman and festival director Anne-Marie McDermott to play Schubert and Brahms.
For more information about the concert and how to watch live, the commands on bravovail.org. (Do it in advance)
At first, the new podcast “Remotely Creative” seemed a little desperate. Like many schools, the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design was forced to close its campus, and this audio talk show seemed a last-ditre attempt to continue art conversations.
It turns out to be smart, applicable and infrequently fascinating. Host Robb Fladry, DEan of RMCAD students, adopts a humble and understated technique while talking to “artists, designers and generic characters about how the era of COVID-19 isolation was.”
The show is an exhibition with a wide variety of themes and guests, such as the artist Frankie Toan, who talked about mask making and queer gardening; or Jovan Brock, an rmcAD student, who talked about organizing anti-racism protests in Denver and Boulder; and stylist Candice Lambert, who explained how you dressed pop stars for video clips and photo shoots.
The 15 archived episodes are appealing in themselves and the series will continue indefinitely, as plans to reopen the campus continue to evolve.
Find it on your favorite podcast player or get it here: rmcad.edu/remotelycreative.
The annual Vail Dance Festival has selected to spend virtual this summer, responding to the pandemic with a mini season that combines archived performances, conversations and a virtual gala.
There’s a night of new work, and this looks promising: the August 4 program titled “NOW: First,” with choreographed pieces in particular for a virtual presentation. The program is “Mercy”, created through Bobbi Jene Smith with music through Max Richter, with dances through Smith, Melissa Toogood and Calvin Royal III; and “A Summer Place”, a solo piece choreographed with and with Robert Fairchild, who uses music through Max Steiner, Jim Jacobs and George Gershwin.
The works were filmed in advance for the 2020 showcase, so expect them to be components of a subtle fresh dance show. Damian Woetzel, Vail’s artistic director, moderates events.
Connect Facebook or YouTube. Information, program notes, and commands in vaildance.org.
The tumult of recent months has been a great inspiration to Denver’s poet, writer, motivator, and musician named Molina Speaks.
Molina has been a force in the surprising April show of local artists, actors and poets titled “Digital Gift Basket”, and is also presenting new verses and new music.
She has just released the song “That Futuristic”, and it’s worth listening to again. The song features Diles rhythms and a strong and hopeful anti-racist message. The words are sincere, the language is strong (you have been warned) and the feeling arrives just in time.
“That Futuristic,” which is a component of an upcoming album, is available, as are many of the artist’s other works on molina.bandcamp.com.
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The cancellation of the planned live occasions for this year’s Aspen Music Festival means that 2020 will take place without all the evenings and nights of world-class concerts that have come to outline the stormy summers in the mountain village.
There is, however, a positive side. The festival offers an abbreviated season of shows, everything is free and comes directly to the room of your website.
There is a lot of music in the mix: a recital on August 9 with violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Jeremy Denk; a show for teachers and academics on August 12 with singer Renée Fleming and others; and a solo concert on August 16 through pianist Andreas Haefliger.
There are also live discussions with festival artists and that will allow audience members to ask their own questions.
Check the schedule in advance on the website aspenmusicfestival.com, where it can also be attached to events.
In the spirit of making Denver the worst summer of all time, the region’s most attractive Mexican food chain, Illegal Pete’s, shared the secret recipe for its beloved margarita. People like me have enjoyed dozens (and dozens) of those magical bittersweet cocktails over the years, and he missed them tremendously when Pete stopped for coronavirus reasons,
This charity gift will give homemade hangovers in the years to come.
The big revelation came here at Cinco de Mayo via Pete’s Instagram feed in a quick 2-minute video showing a bartender assembling concoction for public consumption. It stays on the web, even if Pete’s has returned (with some of the maximum security protocols strictly applied from anywhere to eat in the city). So, even if you can make those drinks at home, you can also take them out, when you feel comfortable, so the waiters can give you genuine advice.
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