Aspen Music festival

Inside the Benedict Music tent.  We do this 2 or 3 times each week. Today going in for a conductors' orchestra concert in which our resident ( for which we get free tickets throughout whole festival ) oboe student Vivian is playing. Just hearing her practice each day as we go about our business in house and garden is a delight.

 Ed Berkeley directing one of the Sat morning  opera masterclasses in the Wheeler Opera House. These 2 hour sessions between 10 and 12 each Saturday morning are a highlight of the year for us , not just of the summer. Stunning performances with ever more talented students coming through and a wonderful range of scenes from operas of every description. We bike in to Aspen , get our free tickets at 9 , and have a very special hour soaking up the early morning sun and atmosphere outside a cafe a block from the Wheeler.