Happy Hour TuesdaysJuly 11/18/25

Concerts craft brewed with classical music, rock, pop, jazz and fusion.

7/11: Two to Tango on piano Christopher O’Riley + Pablo ZieglerTwo brilliant contemporary pianists share the stage in a program featuring two-piano arrangements of tango music.

7/18: Time for three Steve Hackman, conductor Part of the new generation of classically trained musicians this trio mixes it up — 90s hip-hop, grunge, and bluegrass — with pop and classic standards.

7/25: clasicalapalooza Steve Hackman, conductor Don’t miss the world premiere of Steve Hackman’s newest music mash-up — Lady Gaga, Adele, Beyonce, Daft Punk, Beck, Mumford and Sons and more with the CMF Orchestra!

Come early To these pre-concert mixers!

Featuring free

samples from

local Boulder

restaurants,

breweries, coffee

shops, and more.

6/29: Opening Night olga kern, pianoShostakovich: Festive Overture, op. 96

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.1, op. 10 in D-flat major

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op. 43,

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No.2, op. 27 in E minor

7/6: red violin–New World–Bernstein; Cristian Măcelaru, Conductor; Elina Vähälä, violinBernstein: On the Town —Three dance episodes

Corigliano: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (The Red Violin)

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, op. 95 in E minor (From the New World)

7/13: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH Michelle DeYoung, Mary Wilson, Jason Baldwin, Keith MillerBetsy Jolas: A Little Summer Suite (North American premiere)

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a wayfarer)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, op. 125 in D minor (Choral)

7/20: French mini-fest Benedetto lupo, piano

Debussy: Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

Ravel: Piano Concerto in D (for the left hand)

Debussy: Ibéria

Ravel: La Valse

7/27: the PlanetsWorld Premiere: Julian Wachner, Click! Commission

Scriabin: Le Poème de l’extase (Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No. 3)

Holst: The Planets, op. 32 (with visual footage)

8/3: mahler’s ninthMahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major

thursdays Fresh FridaysJuly 14/21/28

A concert experience —remixed.

Start at 6:30 pm with an hour-long

concert featuring some of the

world’s greatest music, and still have

time for a post-concert dinner and

drinks — the night is still young!

7/14: Beethoven’s Ninth Mary Wilson, Michelle DeYoung, Jason Baldwin, Keith Miller Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, op. 125 in D minor

7/21: French mini-fest Benedetto lupo, piano

Debussy: Ibéria

Ravel: Piano concerto in D (for the left hand)

Ravel: La Valse

7/28: Holst: the Planets

Sit back and soar through the universe with featured visual animation from NASA.

saturday + sunday @ Chautauqua

July 1/8/22/29

7/1: olga kern, Piano recitalOlga Kern loves Boulder, and we love her! Join us for the return of this electrifying Van Cliburn competition-winning pianist when she returns to the historic Chautuaqua auditorium.

7/8:Chamber MusicSchubert: String Quartet No. 12, D. 703 in C minor, “Quartettsatz”

Schubert: Cello Quintet, D. 956 in C major

7/22: French mini-festBenedetto Lupo, pianoDebussy: a selection of solo piano music

Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1

7/29: chamber music boris allakhverdyan, clarinet + Members of the CMF OrchestraBrahms: Clarinet Quintet, op. 115 in B minor

Tchaikovsky: (arr. Takemitsu): Autumn Song

Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452 in E-flat major

July 2/16/23/30

7/2: magnificent MozartGiora Bernstein, conductor Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K. 385 in D major, (Haffner)

Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D Minor

Bach: Concerto for Two Violins’ BWV 1043

Mozart: Symphony No. 38, K. 504 in D major (Prague)

7/16: stewart goodyear, pianoVaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis

Shostakovich: Concerto No.1 in C minor for Piano, Trumpet and Strings

Britten: Young Apollo, op.16

Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 strings

7/23: French mini-festFauré’s French SoireeBenedetto Lupo, pianoFauré: Selections from Masques et bergamasques

Dukas: Villanelle for Horn and Orchestra

Saint-Saëns: Romance, op. 36

Fauré:  Ballade, op. 19

Chaminade: Concertino for Flute and Orchestra, op. 107 in D major

Saint-Saëns: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso

Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld (excerpts)

7/30: classically jazz boris allakhverdyan, clarinet Weill: Suite from Three Penny Opera

Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Joplin: Two Ragtimes: The Entertainer, arr. Schuller and Maple Leaf Rag, arr. Schuller

Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Gershwin: Lullaby for Strings

Milhaud: La création du monde

Season finale

8/4 Gil Shaham,

violinBeethoven: Violin Concerto,

op. 61 in D major

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, op. 92 in A major

Young People’s COncert

July 8 @ 10AM Kids $5 / Adults $10

music takes flight Scott Terrell,

conductorChildren ages 4+ will find their

groove to orchestral music.

More fun after the show on the great lawn with costumed

characters, hands-on instruments, creative face painting and more.