The Aspen Music Festival and School, America’s premier center for classical music performance and training, announced a gift to the organization, given by current board chair Michael Klein. The gift is the second largest in.
In June of 1993, the fledgling June festival had finished its first modest affair at the Snowmass Rodeo Grounds, and our survival was still much in doubt. But we soon booked Tony Bennett to open.
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There is a popular saying that people come to Aspen for the winter but stay for the summer. And while it s true that ski season and winter culture tends to dominate, Aspen s legendary summer music season and idyllic setting gives winter a run for its money.