Aspen Music Festival
Region: Mountain West
Type: Concert Series
"Music Director David Zinman presides over the eight-week summer festival of more than 350 events - including orchestral concerts, chamber music, opera, contemporary music, master classes, lectures, and kids' programs. Each day brings concerts to the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent (an acoustically superior and award-winning permanent structure that opened in 2000), the beautifully restored Victorian Wheeler Opera House, the exceptional Harris Concert Hall, as well as in churches and other halls around Aspen. Many events are free, and other tickets range up to $80. Lawn seating is always free."—Description by festival
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| 10-Days of Free Streaming Concerts | |
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The veritable classical music YouTube site, Medici.tv, will be streaming 90 performances worth of video from the first 10 days of AMF 2008. |
| Aspen Music Peace Project | |
 | <p>This wing of the AMFS organization involves students in discussions of and the implementation of projects proposed by the AMPP's committee members that will utilize the socially constructive powers of music in various community service projects throughout the Aspen area and around the globe.</p> |
| The School | |
 | An absolutely monstrous part of the Aspen summer activities, the Aspen Music School will four-, five-, and nine-week intensive programs for subjects ranging from piano and classical guitar to composition studies to audio recording, with the opportunity to perform at the festival's main venue, the Benedict tent, even open to students who successfully audition to select programs. |
ASPEN — The Aspen City Council on Tuesday allocated $147,500 toward special events with the notion that they will stimulate the economy by drawing guests to town. More than 30 concepts with a total of $544,500 in requests were submitted to the city, which were vetted by a 12-member committee over the past few months.
The council allocated seed money to the events which were recommended by the committee, except for one that was proposed by the Aspen Skiing Co. and three others by the city of Aspen's special events department. The council is supportive of the Skico's Snow Beats proposal, which would be a three-day music festival in downtown Aspen with popular musicians.
But because the event was planned for March 5-7, it was determined that there wasn't enough time to plan it this year. The council agreed to provide money for 2011.
