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L'Amour: Love and Heartbreak

Sunday, February 14, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (MT)

Denver, CO

L'Amour: Love and Heartbreak

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
General Ended $21.00 $1.52
Senior 62+ and Student Ended $15.00 $1.36

Event Details

L'Amour returns with new works and a few old favorites. A beautiful and heart wrenching performance of live music and contemporary ballet awaits!

This intimate studio performance is a passionate expression of romantic love (requited and unrequited) in celebration of Valentine's Day, expressed through dance and music. The outstanding Colorado Chamber Players will provide musical compositions for piano and strings including ardent masterpieces by Vivaldi,  Arvo Part, Johannes Brahms, and Bach, all expressing various aspects of romantic love. DTDT's choreography sets these works in motion showcasing the most talented contemporary ballet company in the region.

 

Program will include excerpts from:

Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Violins

Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for One Violin

J.S. Bach: Prelude from Suite no. 5 in c minor, solo cello

Arvo Part: Fratres for Violin and Piano

Arvo Part: Psalom for String Quartet

Jean Sibelius: String Quartet

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in f minor

 

Performers:

Dancers from David Taylor Dance Theatre, with choreography by James Wallace

Andrew Cooperstock, Piano

David Waldman, Violin

Paul Primus, VIolin

Barbara Hamilton, Viola

Katharine Knight, Cello

 

When & Where



Denver Dance Center
2496 W. 2nd Avenue
Unit 3
Denver, CO

Sunday, February 14, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (MT)


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Colorado Chamber Players



The award-winning Colorado Chamber Players, described as "Colorado's musical treasure" (Denver Post) has toured the USA, Brazil and Spain. The CCP performs 55+ concerts in the Denver Metro region. Sole recipient from 2000-2003 of Chamber Music America’s distinguished Long-Term Residency Award, the Chamber Players was Ensemble-In-Residence at the Mizel Center and with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra for eight years.  Says the Boulder Camera of a January 2008 Messiaen performance:  “Magnificently played!”  The CCP was the only recipient of both the 2005 and 2008 Adams County SCFD’s Creativity Award; recipient of another Chamber Music America Residency in 2008-09 at Children’s Hospital; and was one of 2 recipients of the Hosokawa Fellowship in 2006. The CCP received a  “Meet the Composer” award in March 2008, and hosted San Francisco composer Katrina Wreede.  The CCP was awarded an Argosy Foundation Recording grant in June 2008 to record Bruce Adolphe’s “The Tiger’s Ear”, and recently learned it was chosen by the prestigious Copland Foundation (NYC) to receive an award. Colorado Public Radio has featured the CCP on over 60 broadcasts since August 2005.  The CCP celebrates their 18th season of innovative chamber music in 2011-12.  

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

We look forward to seeing you for L'Amour on Sunday evening!

If you take 6th Avenue West, be sure to get off at Bryant Street, go south to Second Avenue, make a left (east) on 2nd Avenue.

Denver Dance Center may be a bit tricky to find at night. Once you are on Second Avenue, look for the giant J.R Butler sign. Turn into the street/alley at the J.R. Butler sign, (which on the map is Zuni or Alcott), go south, and Denver Dance Center is on the right hand side. On Sunday, you may park on the street or in front of any business nearby the Center.