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Although he divided his time between Arizona and Alaska, the late Eugene D. Eaton Jr. never lost his connection to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he earned three degrees in economics from 1961 to 1971.
Quartet members Andrew Giordano, Andrew Krimm, Zachary Reaves and Joshua Ulrich joined Park, bassoonist Daniel Nester, tenor Paul Kroeger and mezzo-soprano Rebecca Robinson were named finalists after two rounds of competition among 40 contestants. The quartet won the $2,000 overall prize, Park received $500 for the audience prize and all finalists received $500 prizes, to be used professional development, to help with costs for such things as performance, outreach or recording.
Myra Lee (Barnes) Jackson, known to every student and faculty member who scheduled a recital or concert at the College of Music and widely known to the Boulder community for her work with CU Presents, died at her home Oct. 29, 2014. She was 73.
If your holiday entertainment tastes run to silly, sublime or sentimental鈥攐r all three鈥擟U Presents can help you celebrate this holiday season.
All apologies to Forrest Gump, but you really never know what you鈥檙e going to get at the University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Ekstrand music competition finals. Might be Bach, Bernstein or Basie, show tunes or a string quartet, a jazz solo or guitar duo.
The University of Colorado College of Music won鈥檛 quite take you around the world in 80 minutes, but in one concert of that length, they can take you into musical cultures from the other side of the globe.
College of Music freshman Michael Ochoa has been named to the inaugural class of the CU-Boulder Esteemed Scholars program.
"I was honored to be awarded this scholarship and to be included in this program," Ochoa says. "A huge factor for me was the professor of oboe here (Peter Cooper), also the environment of CU-Boulder is a really welcoming place."
鈥楽ide by Side鈥 is more than just a musical review
BOULDER, Colo. 鈥 Imagine hanging out with legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and a few of his closest friends鈥擝ernadette Peters, Leonard Bernstein, Mandy Patinkin and others鈥攁s they chat and swing into some of his greatest works.
That鈥檚 what you鈥檒l experience onstage when CU Opera performs 鈥淪ide by Side by Sondheim鈥 April 24-27.
Moved by a performance of the 2013 Holiday Festival, one of the College of Music's and CU Presents' most popular events year after year, University of Colorado Regent Stephen Ludwig authored a poem, "Cosmic Gift," that distills some of the emotions stirred by the performance.
The University of Colorado Boulder Horn Choir performs Jean-Fran莽ois Taillard's "Christmas Crackers" at Denver's Children's Hospital on Dec. 9, 2013, Michael Thornton directing.