Season One
Getting Ahead of Ourselves — Inaugural Show
December 8th, 2006 — Laughing Goat Coffee House, Boulder
Music: Jennie Dorris, Liz Dinwiddie, Michelle Davis, and David Threatte performing the compositions of Bartok, Colgrass, Anthony McFarlane, Hovhannes and Mignone.
Essays: Jennie Dorris, Dave Burdick, and Paul Salamone.
Justifications
February 9th, 2007 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: Jennie Dorris, Megan Tipton, Dave Short, Christine Short, Alaunde Copley-Woods, Greg LaLiberte, Nick Vocatura, and Jenna Schroeter performing Muczynski, Clarke, Copley-Woods, and Higgins.
Essays: Jennie Dorris, Drew North, and Paul Salamone.
Guilty Pleasures
March 16th, 2007 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: Michelle Davis, Liz Dinwiddie, Jennie Dorris, Becky Kutz-Osterberg, and Megan Tipton performing Harbison, Arvo Part, Christian Woehr.
Essays: Paul Salamone and Dave Burdick.
Defining Moments
April 13th, 2007 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: The works of Beethoven, McFarlane, Schmitt, Clarke, Mizzolli.
Essays: Jennie Dorris , Jeanine Fritz, and Paul Salamone.
So, What Do You Do?
May 18th, 2007 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: Mary Keener, David Short, Alaunde Copley-Woods, and Ryan Drickey performing Higgins, Ravel, Persichetti, Copley-Woods.
Essays: Paul Salamone, Jeanine Fritz, Jennie Dorris.
Season Two
Beer and Bach — Season Kick Off
September 8th, 2007 — Avery Brewing, Boulder
Taking it Personally
September 14th, 2007 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: Dave Short, Chris Short, Jennie Dorris, Heather Truesdall, and Alaunde Copley-Woods performing Eby, Gluck, Bach, Beethoven, Kirtley.
Essays: David Eby, Meghan Rozell, Jennie Dorris, Jeanine Fritz.
Taking it Personally
October 11th, 2007 — Denver School for the Arts, Denver
Essays and Music: Students of DSA
It Doesn’t Add Up
October 12th, 2007 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: Dave Short, Jeanine Tiemeyer, Leah Biber, Julia Barnett, Jennie Dorris performing Bach, Villa Lobos, Higgins, Miyoshi.
Essays: Jeanine Frits, Jennie Dorris.
Rockstars
November 14th, 2007 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: Ryan Drickey, Dave Short, Jennie Dorris, Leah Biber, Enion Pelta-Tiller, Danny Schade, Will Cooley, Greg Harris, Matt Fuller, and Megan Tripton (Memory of Pilots Trio) performing, Harris, Novotney, Kodaly, Pelta-Tiller, Larsen.
Essays: Jeanine Fritz, Jennie Dorris.
Table for One
March 18th, 2008 — Laughing Goat, Boulder
Music: Jennie Dorris, Leah Biber, Linda Shea, Beth Ringle, Megan Titensor, Rachel Chacko, Alaunde Copley-Woods performing Farr, Crawford, Gustafson, Rozsa, Hembree, Summer.
Essays: Jennie Dorris, Jeanine Fritz.
Voice Overs — in collaboration with Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Writer’s Buzz
April 8th, 2008 — Mercury Cafe, Denver
Music: Dave Short, Megan Tipton, Megan Buness, Michelle Davis, Stephanie Morrison, and Sarah Barber performing Brahms, Prokofiev, Harris, Bruner, Vaughn Williams.
Essays: Michael Henry, Shari Caudron, Jennie Dorris.
Story Time
May 16th, 2008 — Mercury Cafe, Denver
Music: Alaunde Copley-Woods, Chris Short, Megan Tipton, Dave Short, Anne Guzzo, Meri Metzger, and Nicole Riner performing Mozart, Guzzo, Janacek.
Essays: Jeanine Fritz, Jennie Dorris.
Film: Amy Peterson, Daniel Weinshenker, Carol Burch-Brown, Brad Johnson.
Season Three
A Concert of Change
October 11th, 2009 — Mercury Cafe, Denver
Music Luke Wachter, Dave Short, Jennie Dorris, Dean Hirshfield, Keith Kirchoff, Megan Tipton, Danny Schade, Chris Short, and Tyson Titensor performing Reich, Kirchoff, Schnittke-Mahler.
Essays: Jeanine Fritz, Jennie Dorris.
Set in Motion
November 8th 2008 — 910 Arts, Denver
Music Luke Wachter, Dean Hischfield, Nick Cox (Artbot), Leah Biber, Julia Barnett, Heidi Farr, Emily Lewis, Megan Tipton, and Megan Titensor performing Ravel, Cage, Higdon, Muczynski, Notareschi.
Essays: Jeanine Fritz, Jennie Dorris, Megan Quinn.
Finding Our Religion
February 20th & 21st, 2008 — Old Main, CU Campus, Boulder; 910 Arts Denver
Music: Jennie Dorris, Luke Wachter, MinTze Wu, Megan Titensor, Leah Biber, and Barry Kardon performing Bloch, Aperghis, Glennie, Biber, Bach.
Essays: Jem Moore, Jennie Dorris, Megan Quinn, Sharon Glassman, Jeanine Fritz.
A Night on the Red Carpet
April 4th, 2009 — 910 Arts, Denver
Music: Emily Lewis, Heidi Farr, Chris Short, Megan Tipton, Megan Edrington. Megan Titensor, Dave Short, Sam Araya, Sarah Barber, Leah Biber, Meredith Metzger, and Jennie Dorris performing Ravel, Guzzo, Bernstien, Grunfeld, Gardel, Barber, Zamecnik.
Essays: Jeff Becker, Jeanine Fritz, Jennie Dorris.
Film Reviews: Brad Weismann.
The Death of the Pugilist — Telling Stories Presents with director MinTze Wu
May 29th & 30th, 2009 — 910 Arts, Denver; Sound of Lyons Music Festival, Roger’s Hall, Lyons
Text: Steve Brunt reading “The Death of the Pugilist,” by Daniel Mason.
Music: MinTze Wu, Jem Moore, Dave Short, Luke Wachter, and Jennie Dorris performing Bach, Reich, Weiss, Glass, traditional Irish, blues, improvisations.