Throughout the 2020-21 Season, Boulder Philharmonic Music Director Michael Butterman is hosting virtual Events of Note, featuring world-class soloists in recital with conversation. | info & tickets
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra – Asleep at the Wheel
September 11-13, 2020
Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, Fort Worth, TX
Michael Butterman, conductor
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The musicianship of Asleep at the Wheel has come to be the stuff of legends. Pegged by Reuters as “one of the best lives acts in the business,” the multi-GRAMMY award-winning band joins forces with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for an exciting opening concert to the 2020-21 Pops Series in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra – Chamber Music Series
October 7, 2020 – 7 PM CT
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Music of Bach & more
Kirsten Yon, violin
Michael Butterman, piano
Boulder Philharmonic – Vivaldi Recomposed
October 17, 2020
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Michael Butterman, conductor and host
Violinist and Boulder Phil Concertmaster, Charles Wetherbee, stars in this stunning re-invention of Vivaldi. The Washington Post describes Montgomery’s work, “Turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life, ‘Strum‘ sounded like a handful of American folk melodies tossed into a strong wind, cascading and tumbling joyfully around one another.”
MONTGOMERY Strum
BRITTEN Simple Symphony
RICHTER Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Recomposed
Boulder Philharmonic – Zuill and Zwilich
January 23, 2021
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Cellist Zuill Bailey performs legendary American composer, Ellen Taafe Zwilich’s new concerto, written just for him. The evening begins and ends with gorgeous melodies by Rachmaninoff and Schubert.
RACHMANINOFF Vocalise, for cello and piano
Zuill Bailey, cello, and Michael Butterman, piano
ZWILICH Cello Concerto
SCHUBERT Trout Quintet
Boulder Philharmonic – A Celebration of Cello
March 13, 2021
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Michael Butterman, conductor and host
Cello-bration! A night for cello lovers, featuring Schumann’s moving Cello Concerto. The evening also includes music by the Phil’s own Paul Trapkus, and a performance of Wagner’s love letter to Cosima.
DEBUSSY/SCHOENBERG Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
SCHUMANN/LASSER Cello Concerto in A minor
TRAPKUS Les Amies
SOLLIMA Violencelles, Vibrez!
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
Boulder Philharmonic – The Soldier’s Tale
April 3, 2021
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Michael Butterman, conductor and host
Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) is a theatrical work “to be read, played, and danced.” Based on a Russian folk tale, a violinist trades his fiddle with the Devil. What could go wrong?!
STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale
Boulder Philharmonic – Beethoven 6 and Frequent Flyers
April 24, 2021
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Michael Butterman, conductor and host
Beethoven’s incredible Pastoral Symphony performed by a string sextet in this historic arrangement is revealing and uniquely beautiful. Korine Fujiwara’s ballet score for Claudel is brought to life by Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance.
WALKER Lyric for Strings
FUJIWARA Suite from Claudel
BEETHOVEN/FISCHER Symphony No. 6