Perhaps there are some in the community who wonder why the Aspen Music Festival Tent was named for Fritz and Fabi Benedict. Here is some history. Around 1985, the Board of Trustees had a donnybrook.
Today, Horowitz s dream of a simple tented festival has evolved into a pair of three-day summer musical extravaganzas that in a typical year draw upward of 10,000 patrons daily to the Labor Day event.
Dr. Tom Buesch has taught philosophy, music appreciation, computer science and more since he joined the Colorado Mountain College staff in 1991. This year, he’s calling it a career.