To: The Open Forum
Silvia Pettem’s recent column about the changes over time of the Colorado Music Festival at Chautauqua throws a fine light on changes in Boulder itself.
Pettem reminds us of the astonishing intellectual reach of conductor Giora Bernstein’s work beginning in 1979. He imagined that, with the orchestra at the heart of it all, the summer festival could come to grips with many of the most troubling issues of the day.
Powerful people would speak and committed people would listen and think hard ideas. It would be like that first Aspen Festival of 1949 with Albert Schweitzer playing Bach and Thomas Mann lecturing on… the world at large.
Might not we call this period, the Classical Period in Boulder’s singular history, when the intellectual life of the community was still in intimate touch with the great radical, and cultural traditions of Europe, a time when there were real radicals in Boulder.
It was a darker time, after WWII, a more somber intellectual time.
Maestro Bernstein was like that himself, a dour, brilliant, central European intellectual.
Now Boulder is again caught up in change. And the Colorado Music Festival exemplifies it. Michael Christie confines his proud orchestra to the pleasures and ideas of music itself and does not insist on broad reaches of thought connecting the music to the body social and politic. The festival is brighter, lighter, some would say more fun, than in that more severe Classical Period of the old radicalism.
In this New Period in Boulder’s life and times, the old radicals
have transmogrified into young, ebullient, Obama, regular green
Democrats. They are new and home-grown, unmoved by European traditions of thought, art, and social action. They are probably more ingenuously “American” than ever and probably happier. But are they as exciting and tough as those who went before?
Gordon M. Wickstrom
Boulder
Another way to look at this is how some things really haven’t changed since the Colorado Music Festival was founded back in the ’70s.
As someone who has been a CMF patron for the past 16 years, experiencing the leadership of both music directors, I see important values that continue:
*A sense of risk-taking and adventure
*Incorporation of music from other cultures
*Commitment to world-class musicmaking
*Community-building events to support performances
*A festival atmosphere
*Talented orchestra musicians and guest artists (some emerging, some established)
*Strong education & outreach programs
*A desire to create life-enriching experiences
Just thought I would share the common threads that I see at this wonderful summer music festival that has become a treasured part of my Boulder lifestyle.
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