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The cultural highlights for our region this weekend include chamber music, orchestral music, smooth jazz, improvisation … plus a whole lot more.

The 36th annual Colorado College Summer Music Festival will produce the city's first live orchestra concerts in more than a year. The three-week festival attracts pre-professional musicians from around the

Chamber Music on the Fox to explore the 'Lost Voices' of the Holocaust On Thursday, April 15, Sara Sitzer, co-artistic director for Chamber Music on the Fox, will explore the "Music of Terezin," the Nazi concentration camp for artists during the World War II. Courtesy of Chamber Music on the Fox   Updated 4/12/2021 12:03 PM On Thursday, April 15, Chamber Music on the Fox co-artistic director Sara Sitzer will lead a program on the "Music of Terezin" at 7 p.m. Much of the most powerful and beautiful art was born out of history's darkest hours. Join Sitzer as she explores the incr...

Czech-born Erwin Schulhoff died of tuberculosis in a concentration camp in Bavaria in 1942; he was 48. His only opera, Flammen (Flames), had been composed between 1923 and 1929, and was first performed in Brno in 1932. Schulhoff’s music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis, and it was not until the 1990s that Flammen was staged again (in Leipzig), and also recorded in Berlin under John Mauceri for Decca’s Entartete Musik series. The Capriccio set comes from a production in Vienna in 2006, which was recorded by Austrian Radio. Erwin Schulhoff: Flammen album cover. Photograph: Cap...

Mazel tov! The whole shtetl buzzed with the news. Chanka, the butcher’s daughter, was engaged to Yankel, the carpenter’s son.  It was a local match, so the whole town got involved in the wedding preparations. A week before the wedding, Chanka could be found sewing the last few stitches on he…