Telling Stories http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org Telling Stories offers live concerts in casual venues; the concerts feature classical chamber music and original literature. It centers on commissioning new chamber repertoire, original essays, and showcasing a nontraditional blend of the two arts. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:55:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Culture Shock http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=220 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=220#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:55:01 +0000 Jim Casey http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=220 Culture Shock: we hear music from around the world and tales of writers getting out of their comfort zones.

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=220 0 Sounds of Silence http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=174 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=174#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:59 +0000 Jennie Dorris http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=174 Musical selections from Anne Guzzo and Conrad Kehn. Words by Brianna Doby and Megan Quinn.

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=174 0 Welcome! http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=199 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=199#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:28:47 +0000 Jennie Dorris http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=199 Welcome to Telling Stories: music and essays. We normally just go by Telling Stories, and we’re a troupe of professional classical musicians and writers who are working to make music and literature a little more fun.

Our vision:
Telling Stories serves to attract a younger audience to classical music and literature.

Our mission:
Telling Stories offers live concerts in casual venues; the concerts feature classical chamber music and original literature. It centers on commissioning new chamber repertoire, original essays, and showcasing a nontraditional blend of the two arts.

Wanna take a listen? Check out our podcast of our show “Pilots,” recorded by award-winning producer Martin Skavish, who leaves his professional recording booth at Colorado Public Radio to drink pints with us and record our performances.

Also, founder Jennie Dorris is still in shock that she was named a 2010 Westword Mastermind. She has been tapping her fingertips together and planning the future of the world ever since.

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=199 0 Old, New, Borrowed, Blue http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=192 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=192#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:43:37 +0000 Jim Casey http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=192 Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=192 0 Culture Shock http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=156 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=156#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:00:29 +0000 Jim Casey http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=156 Come join us for “Culture Shock,” where we feature music and life-inspired essays from outside of our local bubble.

The music:

Nicole Riner, flute, performs Takemitsu’s “Itinerant”

Rosalie Gilbert, harp, and Oscar Soler, violin perform Piazzolla’s “Histoire du Tango”

The Penumbra String Quartet performs “So Soon to Leave” by Mark Nowakowski and  the fourth movement of Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet.

The words:

Essays written and read by Jeff Becker, Jeanine Fritz, and Nicole Riner.

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=156 0 Announcing: The Telling Stories holiday gift! http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=171 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=171#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:32:43 +0000 Jennie Dorris http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=171 We’ve got a way for you to both invest your holiday dollars in the local arts community and send cool holiday presents. From now until December 11, all donations of $20 and more gets you a unique Telling Stories gift – we’ll mail a personal card and a CD of our first concert (professionally produced by Colorado Public Radio’s talented Martin Skavish) to the person of your choice.

So, let’s recap. You want to buy meaningful gifts. You want to help us reach our $5,000 fundraising goal so we can keep putting on our creative concerts in your community. Every $20 you pledge to our online fundraising site, Kickstarter, can send a unique gift to friends and family, as well as support us. And you didn’t even have to visit a strip mall!

Thanks for helping us reach our goal!

Jennie

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=171 0 Old, New, Borrowed, Blue http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=81 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=81#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00:04 +0000 Jim Casey http://whiskey.local/~Jimmy/TellingStories/?p=81 The “old”: Alaunde Copley-Woods, flute, plays “Les Folies d’Espagne” by Marin Marias

More “old”: Leah Biber clarinet, and the Meo String Quartet perform Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, first movement.

The “new”: Luke Wachter and Dean Hirschfield play “Three Moods of Two Percussionists” by David Mancini, 1st movement.

And some more “new”: Jennie Dorris, marimba, Leah Biber, clarinet, and Chris Jusell, violin, play “When the Smoke clears” by Barbara White.

Essays read by Dave Burdick, Megan Quinn, and Jeanine Fritz.

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=81 0 Pilots http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=144 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=144#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:07:35 +0000 Jim Casey http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=144 Pilots, inspired by “firsts”: composers’ opus ones and writers’ first experiences.

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=144 0 Tonight’s concert: 6 p.m. http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=139 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=139#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:47:31 +0000 Jennie Dorris http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=139 Hello friends,

We’ve all been wonky since Daylight Savings Time gave us an hour of bright sunshine in the morning and utter darkness at 5 p.m. The wonkiness extended to a few of our concert listings, which have read that we’re performing tonight at 6:30 p.m. We’ll actually be performing a bit earlier than that — tonight’s show starts right at 6 p.m. Get there a few minutes early to get a good seat, and we’ll see you at the D Note tonight!

Cheers,

Jennie

]]> http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=139 0 Panel discussion: “Creative Creation: New Music Makers” http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=88 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?p=88#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:07 +0000 Jim Casey http://whiskey.local/~Jimmy/TellingStories/?p=88 http://www.tellingstoriesmusic.org/?feed=rss2&p=88 0