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Mile-High Music The Colorado Symphony stages a worldly season. by katy b. olson Claude Monet's The Beach at Trouville. continued from page 101 Leaving the Moulin Rouge, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's oil depiction Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil. The second part of the trio, "Nature as Muse," draws inspiration from the French countryside, with masterpieces from such 19th-century Impressionists as Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and others, who worked out of doors amid the bucolic panoramas they longed to capture. With about 36 landscape pieces on view from a privately owned collection as well as from the museum's own reserve, the exhibit offers the public's very first look at these works. Claude Monet's Road in the Wheatfields at Pourville is one particularly recommended piece, suggests Heinrich, who curated the section. Intimate and refined, the final section, "Drawing Room," invites visitors to take a closer glance at 39 different drawings, etched in pastels, pencil and ink, chalk, and watercolor, and perceive for themselves the unadulterated genius of the masters as only firsthand access will permit. Director Heinrich is especially enthused about the 11 Monet works, which weave a cohesive thread through each of the exhibit's three sections. "Visitors will be able to trace his life's work from a very early caricature that he drew as a rambunctious teenager to some of his finest landscapes from the heyday of Impressionism, to the late works he did of his water lily pond," he explains. In fact, it's one of Monet's works that epitomizes the trio: The Beach at Trouville. "'Passport to Paris' is an immersive exhibition that activates all of the senses," adds Heinrich. "Looking at these paintings, you almost can feel the fresh breeze off the Atlantic. It really shows the world of leisure that encompassed Impressionism." Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Pkwy., 720-865-5000; denverartmuseum.org AP The alluring melodies of Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel promise to indulge "Passport to Paris" visitors in the sounds of the good life—and perhaps even carry them back in time. In a unique alliance with the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado Symphony will set the tone with a meticulously curated selection of music and musical programs that complements the exhibits. In addition to composing a soundtrack that evokes the particular ambience and inspiration of the featured artists' era, the Symphony will perform classical French music in a series of live concerts held every Saturday through February 9 at 1 pm in the museum. Other programming includes "Inside the Score: Impressionism," an interactive presentation that connects music and the art featured in the exhibit's "Nature as Muse" section as well as a variation on that program specifically designed for high school students, both taking place in November. The elegant liaison between art and music in France at this time was an uncommon one. Explains Museum Director Christoph Heinrich, "During this time period, Paris was the center of the art world. This was the one time in history when these composers and artists lived and worked in the same place." coloradosymphony.org photography by Jedediah Liddell, courtesy of Colorado Symphony (Boettcher Hall); courtesy of Denver art museum/Jeff Wells (French Horn); courtesy of denver art museum/william j. O'Connnor (cézanne); courtesy of the wadsworth antheneum museum of art/the ella gallup sumner and mary catlin sumner collection fund (Tissot) HOTTEST TICKET The Colorado Symphony performs at Boettcher Concert Hall. 102 aspenpeak-magazine.com 100-102_AP_SC_HottestTicket_WIN13_SPR_14.indd 102 10/29/13 1:48 PM