In a comprehensive article, Stewart Oksenhorn taps the impeccable tastes of Belly Up owner Michael Goldberg, local song writer Tom Ressel, Wine Spectator magazine critic at-large Harvey Steinman, and others to enumerate the must-see events in Aspen this summer. “Everybody and their brother knows what goes on in Aspen during the summertime,” Oksenhorn writes. “But which among them are the truly outstanding events, with potential strong enough to pique the interest of the people whose job it is to pay attention to this stuff?”
Here’s a partial list of Oksenhorn’s findings:
Popular Music
- Raconteurs, June 20
Jones & the Dap-Kings, with Brian Setzer Orchestra, June 21
Steve Earle, July 6
Amos Lee, August 17, Belly Up
Bob Dylan, August 30, Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival
John Fogerty, August 31, Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival
Aspen Music Festival
- The Bronfman-Shaham-Harrell Trio, July 15
Vladimir Feltsman, August 7, Harris Hall
Bruno Cinquegrani conducts Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (“Cinderella”) July 8, 10, and 13
Richard Bado conducts Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” July 24, 27, and 28
Emerson String Quartet, Harris Hall & Benedict Music Tent, June 24 through 28
Soprano Jane Eaglen singing Strauss’ Four Last Songs, August 10
Patrick Summers conducts Massenet’s “Cendrillon,” August 12, 14, and 16
Bassist Edgar Meyer, August 13, with mandolinist Chris Thile
Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, August 17, with Jon Villars, Measha Brueggergosman, Anthony Dean Griffey and John Relyea
Art
- Tom Sachs, opening July 25 at the Baldwin Gallery
“Unknown Pleasures,” Aspen Art Museum, August 9
Speakers
- Salman Rushdie, June 22, at the Aspen Summer Words festival (Aspen Writers’ Foundation)
The Dalai Lama, July 26 at the Aspen Institute
Theater
- “Little Shop of Horrors,” June 26 through August 16, Theatre Aspen
Tyne Daly, Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Jones, June 30-July 6, Aspen Ideas Festival
Jay Sandrich, “Rounding Third,” July 10 through August 21
Marisa Post, “Seussical,” July 11 through August 16
Gottlieb Bartley Products (children’s troupe) “A Chorus Line,” July 20
Gottlieb Bartley Products (children’s troupe) “Fame,” August 3
Ruth Leon in “Much Ado About Nothing,” Pitkin County Courthouse Plaza, mid-August (dates pending)
Films
- “Frozen River,” August 1
Heath Ledger’s final role in “The Dark Knight” (Batman), July 18
“Gonzo,” July 4
“American Teen,” July 25
Terry Kinney’s “Diminished Capacity,” July 18
Dance
- Sante Fe Ballet [August 6, Benedict Music Tent]
Read Oksenhorn’s entire article at the Vail Daily.