Playground at 20 Evening Concert

“Playground at 20” Concert presented by The Playground Ensemble

In celebration of their 20th season, The Playground Ensemble is hosting an ambitious 20-hour MARATHON of new music, structured to highlight all aspects of their musical ensemble and non-profit organization.

This event will be broken into four blocks, each at a different venue in Denver. MARATHON will be structured to highlight all that we do as an ensemble and organization: concerts, community music-making, sessions for music educators, healing arts events, and an improvised communal cool down in the early hours of Sunday morning. See full schedule here.

Evening Block, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Tickets $20 / Students $10

This series of concerts is the heart of MARATHON, which includes a trumpet and electronics chamber concert and an art song chamber concert.

At 8 p.m., the “Playground at 20” concert starts, featuring the first work they ever played, a new commission by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez for bass flute and ‘ghost’ string quartet, and a new work by Playground Director Conrad Kehn for the entire ensemble.

The evening will also feature the Colorado premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s “Ithánali” about a Chickasaw woman astronaut who is designated to be the first human to set foot on Mars as well as “I’m Waiting for Your Crip Cadence”, a collaborative composition by Nathan Hall and performance artist MG Bernard that creates an auditory and visual experience of what it is like to exist in a chronically sick body/mind.