Ethos West's concert schedule

Ethos West: The Chamber Orchestra with a Broader View

Ethos West, a professional-level northern Colorado chamber orchestra, was founded by Dr. Ron Holleman in 2003 and presented its inaugural season in 2004-2005.

The orchestra offers two or three concerts a year covering a uniquely wide-ranging repertoire and regularly including premieres of new works.

Ethos West programs not only span the full range of traditional chamber orchestra works (renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary), but also include jazz, third-stream (a blend of jazz and classical), and world music. Only John Lewis' Orchestra USA of the early 1960s and Holleman's Chicago-based Ethos Chamber Orchestra (1982-96) precede Ethos West in regularly offering such a wide and varied repertoire.

Besides the imaginative selections of music, a favorite feature at Ethos West concerts is Ron Holleman's informal, often amusing "verbal program notes" that help put the music in context and make the concerts friendly and accessible.

We hope you'll come join us for Ethos West's next events: an evening concert with the Portable Ethos on September 12, 2008, and our regular full concert on October 19, 2008. See below for details, as they become available.

In September the Portable Ethos will play for a concert at the Fort Collins Harmony Library, as part of their popular music series "Harmony in the Round." The orchestra will be a string quartet plus the musicians of the Just Jazz Quintet, with Andrew Vogt on saxophones.

7:00-8:00 pm, Friday, September 12, 2008

Harmony Library, 4616 S. Shields, Fort Collins
Free admission

The Harmony Library is located at the southeast corner of Harmony and Shields, on the campus of Front Range Community College. For info, contact Marg Portouw, 970-204-8206 or mportouw@fcgov.com.

This is shaping up to be an exciting concert. On the program will be:

Two major baroque Christmas concertos, by Locatelli and Corelli

A suite of 1950s cool jazz works by clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre, arranged for chamber orchestra by Ron Holleman

An Indo-jazz work (combining East Indian forms like raga with jazz) by British composer Steve Tromans

The World Premiere of an Indo-jazz work by the phenomenal local composer/reeds player AAkash Mittal

Mark your calendars and plan to join us for this unique concert! We'll list more details here when the program is finalized.

2:00 p.m., Sunday, October 19, 2008

Rialto Theater

228 E. 4th Street, Loveland, CO

Adults $15, Seniors & college students $10, Students 18 and under FREE!

Tickets at the door or through the Rialto box office,
(970) 962-2120 or online

Note: If you need further information about a concert, or Ethos West in general, feel free to contact Ron Holleman or any of our other board members.

For listings of the music played in earlier concerts, see the Program Archives. To be notified about upcoming Ethos West events, sign up for our mailing list.