Akropolis This Month
concerts in colorado and new york, a week-long bravo! Vail residency, plus the world premiere of stephanie ann boyd's new reed quintet, lake of muses
 
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July Concerts
 
Bravo! Vail Music Festival Residency
 
July 7 at 6 pm Donor Appreciation Concert and Reception
RAVEL Toccata from Le tombeau de Couperin (arr. Hekkema)
DERRICK SKYE A Soulful Nexus
NINA SIMONE For All We Know (arr. Althius)
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Bebop Riddle IV
JEFF SCOTT Paradise Theater Jump! from Homage to Paradise Valley
 
July 8 at 11 am Vail Heath Performance
 
July 8 at 2:30 pm Little Listeners @ the Library
 
July 9 at 11 am Public Concert at Vail Interfaith Chapel
MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides arr. Jelte Althuis
WILLEM JETHS Maktub
SCOTT Homage to Paradise Valley
 
July 10 at 11 am at Golden Eagle Senior Center
 
July 10 at 2:30 pm Little Listeners @ the Library
 
July 11 at 1 pm Public Concert at Vail Interfaith Chapel
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin for Reed Quintet (Arr. Hekkema)
DERRICK SKYE A Soulful Nexus
GERSHWIN An American in Paris
 
July 11 at 2:30 pm Little Listeners @ the Library
 
 
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTion 
Monday, July 15th 2024 @ 4:15 pm
Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, Chautauqua, New York 
 
Concert Program
Felix Mendelssohn arr. Jelte Althuis: The Hebrides (1830)
 
Augusta Read Thomas: Bebop Riddle IV (2023)
 
Stephanie Ann Boyd: Lake of Muses (2024) 
**WORLD PREMIERE WITH THE COMPOSER PRESENT** 
I. Lake Superior: Lullaby
II. Lake Michigan: Fantasia
III. Lake Huron: Landscape
IV. Lake Erie: Scherzo
V. Lake Ontario: Rhythmics
 
Jeff Scott: Homage to Paradise Valley (2019)
I. Ghosts of Black Bottom
II. Hastings Street Blues
III. Roho Pumzika Kwa Amani (Spirits, Rest Peacefully)
IV. Paradise Theater Jump
 
 
Stephanie Ann Boyd World Premiere
 
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“When speaking with the fine folks of Akropolis about what this piece should be about, we were torn between wanting to do something Detroit inspired and something Chicago inspired. And the more I thought about what connected these two places and the many spaces between, the more I realized how the Great Lakes inspire and control so, so many aspects of the lives of the folks who life on and around their shores. These lakes are the real muses. So I decided I'd write about them. 
 
These movements touch on the bits I found most fascinating about these bodies of water, from Lake Superior’s cold depths being so clear due to a lack of organic material in the water/being “oligotrophic”, aka nutrient poor; to all the beauty Lake Michigan has been the canvas and the paint for in my life so far; to Lake Huron’s thousands of thousands of islands and its underwater petrified forest; to Lake Erie’s rust belt communities and fruit belt orchards and vineyards before it crashes through the Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario, whose human-created harmful algal blooms can be seen from space.
 
I wrote this piece hoping that it could be a fitting portrait work celebrating Akropolis's decade so far of emphatic, heart-felt story-telling and high-speed reeding, from Detroit across the mid-west and beyond. I also hope that it may serve as a connector between the bodies and minds of the people who hear it and these bodies of water whose influence and livelihoods are so connected to our own."

~Composer, Stephanie Ann Boyd
 
Support our $75,000 Matching Campaign
 
We hope you saw the news! Akropolis is thrilled to have received a $75,000 matching challenge grant from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the largest single gift to Akropolis and our nonprofit. We must meet our $75,000 challenge match with new giving by March 1st, 2025, making this the best time to make your first time donation, or increase your support to Akropolis and our nonprofit today! (read more here)  
 
 
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