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Preview article by Betsy Schwarm Apply the word Passione to a musical program and thoughts may drift immediately to Romeo and Juliet.  Those legendary lovers are absent from Pro Musica Colorado’s season opening program Passione, though passion in other forms is quite present.  There is, of course, the ever-present passion for presenting top-flight performances of […]

Preview by Betsy Schwarm For its season finale concert, set for Saturday, April 29, Pro Musica Colorado will offer a program linking to its mission to evoke “the full range of human expression.”   In this case, that ideal is summed up in three works from three centuries, with two big names, one current name, and, […]

Preview article by Betsy Schwarm The greatest music is timeless, still speaking to us generations later.  The best of current music acknowledges that timelessness, while also bringing something new to the mix.  Past and present can still co-exist:  in Pro Musica Colorado’s upcoming January 28 concert, it’s Mozart, Haydn, and Caroline Shaw. The last of […]

Johann Sebastian Bach:  the music and the name are timeless, like a Gibraltar of great music.  Beethoven has myriad admirers, as does Mozart.  However, both masters studied JS Bach’s works, as have countless others since Bach’s time.  The man set such an unsurpassed standard of excellence that one hardly needs to specify which of many […]

Given the events and moods of the past two years, all of us could benefit from some healing.  In its Boulder County concerts of February 4 and 5, the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra provided exactly that:  not merely healing, but also gracefully executed performances that soothed the soul. On the podium was conductor/music director Cynthia […]

Herr Johann Christian Bach, music master of the queen, took Wolfgang between his knees. He would play a few measures; then Wolfgang would continue.