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Presents will feature the strings of Colorado Symphony’s Mendelssohn’s Octet; an evening of classic jazz at Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra Sextet’s Sass, Swingin’ and Standards featuring Marion Powers; a celebration of dance from India with IndianRaga @ the Rockies; and a sizzling evening of jazz with Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra Sextet’s Hot Latin Jazz, Celebrating the Music of Cuba and Brazil!

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Photo: Nick Rutter To mark the centenary of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, the Aurora Orchestra performed it in the first of its new season of concerts at Kings Place. To be more accurate, given the current circumstances, a cut-down Aurora (with seven strings, flute, clarinet and harp) played a cut-down version, specially commissioned from Iain Farrington, with soloist Elena Urioste. And very effective it was, with the harp adding body and a passable imitation of a triangle. This was ...

The members of the Catalyst and Harlem quartets perform together. Photo: Matt Genders Combining magnificently into a single forceful octet, the Catalyst and Harlem quartets reached a climax at this concert’s conclusion with Mendelssohn’s classic in the genre. Presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the group boasted elegance, reverence and rich timbres in the opening movements. In the ticklish Scherzo I wondered, ‘How can anyone not like this music?’ And the final Presto ro...