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Unless otherwise indicated, all concerts are in Packard Hall, are free, and require no tickets.
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Chamber Chorus Concert
Deborah Jenkins Teske, director
The Chamber Chorus will present the premiere of CC Assistant Professor Iddo Aharony’s Hidhud, for chamber choir, solo voice, piano, low strings, percussion, and electric guitar. The text, also by Aharony, is based on the Hebrew words “hidhud” (reverberation) and “d’ma’ma” (silence). The program will also feature music for choir and 4-hand piano, including Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzes and selected songs by American composer William Averitt.
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Guitar Ensemble Concert
Dale Miller, director
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Bluegrass Ensembles Concert
Keith Reed, director
Featuring The Rocky Mountain Tops and The Tumbleweeds.
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Concert Band Concert
Jeremy Van Hoy, director
Guest soloist: Keith Reed, banjo
Featuring music from fantasy films, series, video games — Game of Thrones, How to Train Your Dragon, Lord of the Rings, Assassin’s Creed III, Fullmetal Alchemist, Skyrim, Naruto, Civilization IV — and more!
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Imani Winds: 7:30 p.m. May 11
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Collegium Musicum Concert
Elisa Wicks, director
Guest soloist Carla Moore, baroque violin
“An Afternoon at Café Zimmermann,” celebrating the memory of Nancy Ekberg.
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Mariachi Tigre Concert
AliciaRose Martinez, director
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Chamber Orchestra Concert
Daniel Brink, director
Jerilyn Jorgensen, associate director
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Music at Midday
Featuring instrumental and vocal student performances every third Wednesday of the block.
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Tiger Jazz Ensemble Concert
Ricky Sweum, director
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Celebrating 30 years of CC Gamelan
3 p.m. Sunday, May 21
Packard Hall
featuring performances by
Gamelan Tunjung Sari
Music and Dance in Bali
Alumni & Friends
Reception to follow
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Professor Emerita Dr. Victoria Lindsay Levine brought Gamelan and I Made Lasmawan to CC in 1993
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Dr. Victoria Lindsay Levine awaiting the Indonesian Consulate in May 2019.
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I Made Lasmawan on stage with his Performing Hindu Epics class in October 2022.
Photo by Mila Naumovska ’26 / Colorado College
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Homecoming 1997 CC Bulletin
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This year, the Colorado College Music Department celebrates 30 years since the founding of its Indonesian music program.
The program features Gamelan Tunjung Sari, the CC Balinese Dancers, and alumni and friends who have all been instrumental to the success of the ensemble since it was created in 1993 by Professor Emerita Dr. Victoria Lindsay Levine. “For three decades the CC Gamelan program has been an integral part of our collective campus experience,” said Ryan Bañagale ’00, associate professor of music and Music Department co-chair. “A multitude of students from all areas of study have brought to life this rich musical tradition through departmental concerts and performances at all-college celebrations, such as our recent inauguration of President L. Song Richardson.”
Students who participate in the CC gamelan have the opportunity learn to play six different kinds of gamelan — Balinese gamelan angklung, gender wayang, suling gambuh, balaganjur, and joged, as well as Javanese gamelan ageng — under the instruction of acclaimed Balinese master drummer I Made Lasmawan, who has been with the program since its inception. The ensemble is active on campus, in the greater Colorado Springs area and beyond, performing often at Music at Midday in addition to its end-of-semester concerts in Packard Hall, as well as in venues throughout the Front Range region and overseas in Bali.
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Student Voice Recitals
Hunter Merriman, baritone
3 p.m. Saturday, May 6
Holly Wenger, soprano
3 p.m. Sunday, May 7
Jacob Lynn-Palevsky, baritone
7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 14
Bryn Daney, soprano
5 p.m. Friday, May 19
Willo Abel Burglechner, baritone
5 p.m. Tuesday, May 23
Voice students accompanied by Daniel Brink, piano
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Student Instrumental Recitals
Lincoln Grench, piano, and Neo Li, piano
4 p.m. Thursday, May 18
Reeds and Keys:
Richard Wang, clarinet; Forrest Tucker, bass clarinet and piano; Lincoln Grench, piano; Jordan Bates, piano
7 p.m. Tuesday, May 23
with Susan Grace, piano
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Ben-Amots Archive established by National Library of Israel
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The most recent batch of materials being prepared for the Ben-Amots Archive in the National Library of Israel.
Photo courtesy of Yehuda Romem
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Ofer Ben-Amots, Colorado College Music Department co-chair and professor of theory and composition, was recently honored by the National Library of Israel with an archive dedicated to his life and works.
The foundation for the Ben-Amots Archive was laid during his most recent trip to Israel in November 2022, when he submitted a few of his newly-published piano scores to the National Library in Jerusalem to be considered for inclusion. Soon after, he was contacted by Dr. Gila Flam, a musicologist and director of the Music Department at the National Library, who invited Ben-Amots to send many more materials that would create his archive.
Flam requested all musical compositions (hand-written, typed, and published), audio and video recordings, articles, reviews, publications, concert programs, personal and professional correspondence, photos, and any other related items that Ben-Amots had saved throughout the years.
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Aharony contributes unique, experimental sounds to ‘Tree Talks’ project
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Last summer, Colorado College Assistant Professor of Music Technology Iddo Aharony explored what could emerge from engaging with the sound of a quaking aspen tree located near Kenosha Pass, Colorado, as part of a three-year project titled Tree Talks: Populus Tremuloides.
After some delays due to covid, the project culminated in the release of an album that was unveiled during a Listening Party on March 24, hosted by the artist who spearheaded the project, Ben Kinsley.
“Ben and I work mostly in different mediums and methodologies, but both our practices involve seeking new ways to engage audiences with our environments. And so, the mutual interest in collaborating emerged some time before the concrete opportunity via this project,” Aharony said.
During the Tree Talks project, Kinsley invited participants to a grove of quaking aspen to hear lectures by experts in various fields of study, all “focused on understanding a single tree through a multitude of perspectives,” Kinsley explains on the project’s website. These experts shared their knowledge about the tree during four gatherings, held in each season, from October 2021 through August 2022.
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Lesson Registration Begins in Block 8!
Keep an eye on the Today at CC digest for information about registering for Fall 2023 lessons. Registration will begin about halfway through the block.
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ICYMI
Opera Scenes 2023: From Magic to Matador
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