{"id":274134,"date":"2025-01-21T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=274134"},"modified":"2025-06-11T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:42:42","slug":"brahms-1-joan-towers-world-premiere-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/concert\/brahms-1-joan-towers-world-premiere-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brahms 1 + Joan Tower\u2019s World Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These can\u2019t-miss concerts bring together two Festival favorites: lauded composer Joan Tower, whose concerto <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A New Day <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">premiered at the Festival to rave reviews, and saxophonist Steven Banks, who stunned audiences in 2021. Now these powerhouses unite to give the world premiere of Tower\u2019s saxophone concerto <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Returns <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the baton of Music Director Peter Oundjian<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After intermission, the Festival Orchestra performs Brahms\u2019 brilliant First Symphony, which helped the composer step out of Beethoven\u2019s shadow; critic Eduard Hanslick claimed that \u201c&#8230;even the layman will immediately recognize it as one of the most distinctive and magnificent works of the symphonic literature.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These can\u2019t-miss concerts bring together two Festival favorites: lauded composer Joan Tower, whose concerto A New Day premiered at the Festival to rave reviews, and saxophonist Steven Banks, who stunned audiences in 2021. Now these powerhouses unite to give the world premiere of Tower\u2019s saxophone concerto Love Returns under the baton of Music Director Peter Oundjian. After intermission, the Festival Orchestra performs Brahms\u2019 brilliant First Symphony, which helped the composer step out of Beethoven\u2019s shadow; critic Eduard Hanslick claimed that \u201c&#8230;even the layman will immediately recognize it as one of the most distinctive and magnificent works of the symphonic literature.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":274133,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[415,438,441],"class_list":["post-274134","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-orchestral-concerts","tribe_events_cat-premieres","tribe_events_cat-symphonies","cat_orchestral-concerts","cat_premieres","cat_symphonies"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/274134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/274134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274134"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradomusicfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=274134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}