Summer Music Festival Intermezzo Season: The Art of Perseverance

The Colorado College Summer Music Festival opens this year's Intermezzo Season with “The Art of Perseverance: Sounds of Hope and Restoration” beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5.

The concert features performances by Mark Fewer, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello; Susan Grace, piano; and Jennifer DeDominici, mezzo-soprano.

The concert also includes a wealth of CC student participation. Poetry that corresponds to the music will be chosen and read by students from Jane Hilberry’s poetry seminar. Music students will play Carlos Simon’s piano trio be still and know and Shostakovich’s Concertino for 2 pianos. A student vocalist will perform Everything Else from Next to Nothing.

This Intermezzo concert is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available to the public beginning March 1 online at www.coloradocollege.edu/musicfestival or by calling 719-389-6552.

For more information about the Summer Music Festival, the 39th season, and to become a donor, visit www.coloradocollege.edu/musicfestival or call 719-389-6552.