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November 26, 2024

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Boulderites should act now for Holiday event

Low Ticket Warning for Dec. 1 Nutcracker in Macky; limited Longmont tickets still available

By Peter Alexander Nov. 26 at 12:05 a.m.

What would the Holiday season be without Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet The Nutcracker?

For many families, something would definitely be missing from their celebrations. The Boulder Philharmonic and Boulder Ballet open their annual performances of Nutcracker this weekend, with performances Saturday and Sunday (Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; details below), but they are warning that the Sunday matinee, an especially popular time for families to attend events together, has a limited number of tickets left. 

Boulder Ballet production of The Nutcracker

If you do miss the Boulder performances, however, you need not despair! Boulder ballet will also present The Nutcracker in Longmont the following weekend (Dec. 7 and 8; details below) with the Longmont Symphony. Tickets are limited but still available for those performances. 

The Boulder Ballet and the Longmont Symphony will also present their annual “Gentle Nutcracker,” an abbreviated and sensory-friendly one-hour version of the ballet at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. These performances are designed for individuals with special needs and their families.

In addition to the performances of the full ballet, Boulder Ballet will also feature additional events. As part of a theme titled “Unlocking Tradition,” the stage curtain will be left open until 10 minutes before the performance begins. This will offer audience members a glance behind the scenes, as they will be able to see dancers, musicians and stage crew preparing for the performance. 

For the performance with the Boulder Philharmonic in Macky Auditorium, there will be a coloring contest for children. A line drawing of characters and images from The Nutcracker has been posted online. Children attending each performance are invited to color the drawing, and bring their colored pages to the performance for a chance to win a Nutcracker doll.

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Ballet

Boulder Ballet with the Boulder Philharmonic, Gary Lewis, conductor

  • The Nutcracker
    1 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30
    1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1 LOW TICKETS
    Macky Auditorium

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Boulder Ballet with the Longmont Symphony, Elliot Moore, conductor

  • “Gentle Nutcracker”
    1–2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7
    Vance Brand Civic Auditorium

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  • The Nutcracker
    4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7
    2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8
    Vance Brand Civic Auditorium

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October 24, 2024

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GRACE NOTES: Peace and Halloween fun on the program

Boulder Concert Chorale and Boulder Phil perform weekend concerts

By Peter Alexander Oct. 24 at 2 p.m.

The Boulder Concert Chorale will present a work celebrating peace, with texts from more than a dozen authors, to start its 2024–25 season.

The concert, at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the First United Methodist Church in Boulder, will feature The Peacemakers by Sir Karl Jenkins, a Welsh composer whose music is widely performed. Authors of texts for the 17 movements of The Peacemakers include Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Terry Waite, Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer, St. Francis of Assisi, Rumi, Nelson Mandela and Anne Frank.

Known principally as a jazz and jazz-rock musician, Jenkins plays baritone and soprano saxophones, keyboards and oboe. He has written music for advertising, winning prizes for work in that field, as well as a series of crossover albums under the title Adiemus. Originally written for a Delta Airlines advertisement, the original song Adiemus and the subsequent albums contributed to the growth of Jenkins’s recognition as a composer.

The Peacemakers was premiered in Carnegie Hall in 2012. Jenkins dedicated the score “to the memory of all those who lost their lives during armed conflict: in particular innocent civilians.” The composer has written that one line from Rumi summarizes the underlying idea of the piece: “All religions, all singing one song: Peace be with you.”

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Boulder Concert Chorale
Vicki Burrichter, artistic director and conductor

  • Sir Karl Jenkins: The Peacemakers

4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26
First United Methodist Church, Boulder

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The Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra presents “Bewitching,” a Halloween Extravaganza, Saturday in Northglenn and next Wednesday in Macky Auditorium (Oct. 27 and 30; details below).

Aiming to start “a new tradition,” the Boulder Phil added the Halloween concert this season to their usual schedule of masterworks concerts and special events including the annual Holiday performances of The Nutcracker. Along with the “Shift” series of informal concerts featuring players in unique venues, “Bewitching” represents a populist trend in programming running parallel to the more traditional orchestral concerts.

Billed as “a spine-tingling evening filled with haunting melodies and thrilling orchestral arrangements, perfect for audiences of all ages,” “Bewitching” features film music along with light classical music with magical or eerie associations. Concertgoers are encouraged to wear costumes. 

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“Bewitching: Halloween Extravaganza”
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Gary Lewis, conductor

Program includes:

  • Danny Elfman: “This is Halloween”
  • Edvard Grieg: “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
  • Klaus Nadelt: Music from Pirates of the Caribbean
  • John Williams: Harry Potter Suite
  • Alan Menken: Music from Beaty and the Beast
  • Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • Joe Hisaishi: “Merry-Go-Round of Life”

2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27
Parsons Theatre, Northglenn

6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30
Macky Auditorium

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Boulder Opera children’s performance is sold out

Free Sunday performance at the Boulder Public Library is full

By Peter Alexander Jan. 24 at 3:10 p.m.

Chris Pratorius Gómez

Boulder Opera’s upcoming performance of the children’s opera Xochitl and The Flowers by Chris Pratorius Gómez is sold out.

That is, all of the tickets for this free performance have been claimed. One of three children’s operas Pratorius Gómez wrote for the Hands-On-Opera project of Opera Parallèle in San Francisco, Xochitl and The Flowers is a bilingual opera sung in both Spanish and English. The plot is based on true events that took place in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, about an immigrant family’s determination to put down roots while preserving their native heritage. 

The performance will include an explanation of opera and the plot and an art activity for children making cutout flowers. 

While this performance is already full, Boulder Opera has plans to tour Xochitl and The Flowers next season.

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Boulder Opera—SOLD OUT

  • Chris Pratorius Gómez: Xochitl and The Flowers

3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28
Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater

SOLD OUT: Free tickets have all been claimed