Upcoming Events:

The Denver Brass at the Colorado Scottish Festival
August 13 or 14
Information: 303-832-HORN(4676)

Opening Night of the Chicago Jazz Festival
Thursday, Sept 1, 2005 at 7:30
Three Generations of Jazz celebrates the 70th anniversary of DownBeat magazine with a unique jazz performance. -Tickets and more info

New Vivaldi uncovered...?
August 9, 2005 - Just when the classical music world thought it knew every note of 18th-century composer Antonio Vivaldi, a Melbourne University researcher has unearthed an important new work.  It has been described by Vivaldi experts as the biggest find in 75 years. Musicologist Janice Stockigt noticed a piece of music with distinctive bass, rhythmic and harmonic patterns in a German library in May.  The music was ascribed in 1754 to a younger composer, Baldassare Galuppi, who, like Vivaldi, was born in Venice.  Dr Stockigt wrote in her diary, "Is this a Vivaldi?" and for the next few months followed an international trail uncovering forgery and plagiarism, much of it at the hands of unscrupulous Venetian priest Iseppo Baldan, who was convicted of a sex scandal.  For more on this story go here....