When it comes to the Riverwalk Center, Breckenridge’s centrally located concert venue, Michael Stern finds a lot of resonance with its place in the community. “I think the Riverwalk Center makes the case beautifully that.
Music has been a vital component in film for as almost as long as the medium has been around. Even in the era of silent films, musicians would accompany the sights on screen. The National.
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After months of conversation, the Breckenridge Social Equity Advisory Commission finally implemented a vision statement at its meeting Monday, July 19.
The commission decided to stick with the working vision statement it came up with at its last meeting: Striving for racial equality, removing barriers to social equity, helping everyone thrive. Commissioners agreed they didn’t want to take any more time to come up with an elongated version of the same statement and will use this as its guiding light.
Now that the commission has agreed on its vision, it hopes to start working to implement change but how?
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The National Repertory Orchestra and Breckenridge Music are offering subsidized private music lessons to middle and high school students through a new scholarship program, which aims to remove financial barriers for students and provide work for local musicians.
National Repertory Orchestra CEO Dave DePeters said the idea for the program came from music teachers at local schools.
“We went to them and said, ‘What is it that we can do for you that will support your program, and how can we best serve you and the community through the music program?’ And this is what they asked us to do,” DePeters said.