Benedict Tent broadcasts begin with Saturday’s performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
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The Aspen Music Festival and School is producing a series of six livestream concerts this summer, as it returns to live in-person performances.
The concert broadcasts, beginning Saturday, July 3, will be shown live from the Benedict Music Tent and viewable for free on the Festival’s “Virtual Stage” page at http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com
. The Music Fest developed the platform last year when it hosted virtual performances after its summer season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The winter music season was also staged on the site.
Jessica Everts, right, scans a patron s ticket to watch pianist Matthew Whitaker perform in an Aspen Music Festival and School recital to kickoff the summer season on Thursday, July 1, 2021, inside the Benedict Music Tent in Aspen. Photo by Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times.
After a long year without in-person performances, the Aspen Music Festival and School opened its 2021 season Thursday night at the Benedict Music Tent and hosted its first concert with a live audience since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
With pianist Matthew Whitaker on stage, the festival faithful returned, thankful for summer tradition’s post-vaccine resurrection.
“It’s nice to be able to see a live performance and to share it with others,” Aspenite Murray Cunningham said before the concert, attending for with his wife, Claudia, for their 52nd Music Festival season.
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During a tribute to essential workers at the Benedict Music Tent on Sunday afternoon, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis found a fitting depiction for the past year and a half in a quote from Duke Ellington: “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
“I think that that’s great guidance to all of us, to do our best no matter what life throws at us,” Polis said during remarks at the free thank you event honoring local teachers, medical professionals and fire and public safety officials. “And that’s really what the Colorado spirit is all about: forging ahead despite the obstacles in our path, finding creative solutions that make our world a better place.”
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