Performances
The Box Office is located in Room A121 across from the Kay Schomp Theatre. Box office hours are two hours before each performance. Online tickets can be purchased 24/7, but will end ONE hour before each performance. Additionally, unless the performance is SOLD OUT, any remaining tickets can be purchased over-the-counter at the Box Office in the hour before each performance.
If you are not here by curtain time, the Denver School of the Arts reserves the right to resell uncollected or unused tickets to patrons waiting at the box office. If you are unable to use your tickets for the performance purchased, you may donate them back for others to use or exchange them for another performance. No refunds for unused tickets are available.
Those wishing to sign up as volunteer ushers for a complementary ticket should call the box office at 720-424-1713 to leave a message.
WHOSE STORIES DO WE TELL? PART TWO: Merry Riffmas – Vocal Concert
WEDNESDAY, December 10 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA
This concert is the second part of this year’s series, “Whose Stories Do We Tell?”, Part 2 – Merry Riffmas! The concert will feature many improvised solos from students riffing on new and well-known holiday tunes. You will hear music in Hebrew, Spanish, and Latin with caroling in the lobby, during intermission, and after the concert. We have also prepared new takes on old holiday songs you know and love.
The texts of the songs honor music from the 16th Century, the ballad of a former enslaved woman who walked the Oregon trail and later purchased her freedom, and the contemporary music of modern day performers like Jennifer Hudson. Of course, we include the classic holiday audience sing-a long Silent Night.
CREATIVE WRITING-PIANO-GUITAR COLLABORATION
THURSDAY, December 11 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA Schomp Theatre
DSA’s Middle School Creative Writing students have joined forces with the Middle School Piano and Guitar students to create a night full of musical poetry. Each Creative Writing student has crafted a spoken word poem to capture a personal experience, an emotional event, or how they feel about the world they are inheriting. Each Piano and Guitar student has composed original music to complement their written work. You can only imagine how moving this will be. Please join us for this amazing evening.
STREAMING OPTION for CREATIVE WRITING-PIANO-GUITAR COLLABORATION
THURSDAY, December 11 – 7:00 pm
TICKETS – $10.00
STREAMING from DSA Schomp Theatre
This option is for streaming only. It does allow entrance to the live event.
DSA’s Middle School Creative Writing students have joined forces with the Middle School Piano and Guitar students to create a night full of musical poetry. Each Creative Writing student has crafted a spoken word poem to capture a personal experience, an emotional event, or how they feel about the world they are inheriting. Each Piano and Guitar student has composed original music to complement their written work. You can only imagine how moving this will be. Please join us for this amazing evening.
MOON OF WINTER – Band Concert
THURSDAY, December 11 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
Our Middle School Jazz group starts the program with odes to winter: “Sleigh Ride” – “Let it Snow!” – and Olaf’s daydream song from FROZEN about what it could be like for a snowman “In Summer.”
The Middle School Concert Band follows with “Moon of Winter,” Canada’s oldest Christmas Carol. It is followed by Richard Saucedo’s beautiful “Lullaby in the Mirror.” A haunting piece that will stay with you long after the music has ceased. Composer Randaell Standridge shows his sense of humor in the “Carman Christmas” by combining Bizet’s opera CARMEN with contemporary holiday songs in a mash up that will make you smile.
The High School Wind Ensemble joins in the fun with the “Downey Overture,” which features Latin rhythms and themes. Jackie Kennedy commissioned Leonard Bernstein to write a musical piece for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971. He wrote MASS which includes a variety of musical genres and this “Simple Song” that celebrates religion with a quiet approach to prayer and faith.
This will be followed by Sadler’s “Action Brass” that sounds like it was written as score for an action film. Next comes “Apollo Unleashed” which uses the image of the powerful ancient God of the Sun as inspiration for its blazing energy. They will be finishing with Sousa’s rousing “Who’s Who in the Navy,” written in 1920 as an homage to Native American Tecumseh, whose figurehead adorns a hall at the Annapolis Naval Academy.
The Band Boosters will be hosting an International Food and Treats potluck before the concert. Plan on coming hungry and enjoying a dinner of family favorites.
STREAMING OPTION for MOON OF WINTER – Band Concert
THURSDAY, December 11 – 7:00 pm
ALL TICKETS – $10.00
Streaming for the DSA Concert Hall
This option is for streaming the concert from the comfort of your living room. These tickets do not gain entry to the live event.
Our Middle School Jazz group starts the program with odes to winter: “Sleigh Ride” – “Let it Snow!” – and Olaf’s daydream song from FROZEN about what it could be like for a snowman “In Summer.”
The Middle School Concert Band follows with “Moon of Winter,” Canada’s oldest Christmas Carol. It is followed by Richard Saucedo’s beautiful “Lullaby in the Mirror.” A haunting piece that will stay with you long after the music has ceased. Composer Randaell Standridge shows his sense of humor in the “Carman Christmas” by combining Bizet’s opera CARMEN with contemporary holiday songs in a mash up that will make you smile.
The High School Wind Ensemble joins in the fun with the “Downey Overture,” which features Latin rhythms and themes. Jackie Kennedy commissioned Leonard Bernstein to write a musical piece for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971. He wrote MASS which includes a variety of musical genres and this “Simple Song” that celebrates religion with a quiet approach to prayer and faith.
This will be followed by Sadler’s “Action Brass” that sounds like it was written as score for an action film. Next comes “Apollo Unleashed” which uses the image of the powerful ancient God of the Sun as inspiration for its blazing energy. They will be finishing with Sousa’s rousing “Who’s Who in the Navy,” written in 1920 as an homage to Native American Tecumseh, whose figurehead adorns a hall at the Annapolis Naval Academy.
2ND QUARTER VISUAL ARTS SHOW and GUITAR COLLABORATION
THURSDAY, December 11 – 5:30 pm
FREE event
DSA Gallery and Main Hall
The Visual Arts majors have been hard at work honing their craft in new and familiar genre’s of art. Walking the halls of DSA is similar to being in a modern art museum with changes every six weeks. Come enjoy the NEW art while being serenaded by our talented Guitar students. No cost – no pressure – just enjoyment.
SONGS IN THE SNOW with the COLORADO BRASS – Band
FRIDAY, December 12 – 7:30 pm
Tickets available at link below
DSA Concert Hall
- Tickets: DSA&ColoBrass Tickets
This joint concert between the noted COLORADO BRASS will bring the best of the Brass together, featuring the professional musicians side-by-side with our Band majors. A not-to-be-missed experience for both students and proud family and friends.
WINTER ORCHESTRA CONCERT
SATURDAY, December 13- 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
| The program for this evening consists of a variety of compositions from classical and contemporary composers. Starting the program is the popular FOUR SEASONS by Vivaldi, published in 1725. The suite consists of a concerto for each season with the orchestra celebrating the return of “Spring” in this performance. This is followed by Bela Bartok’s ROUMANIAN FOLK TALES which takes us to a remote countryside using transcribed Transylvanian folk melodies. LIEUTENANT KIJE by Prokofiev was originally written to accompany the Russian movie by the same title in 1935 and has been used since in other soundtracks of military movies. ROUNDS is a piece for piano and string orchestra written by Jessie Montgomery, a prolific contemporary American composer. Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem “Four Quartets,” ROUNDS explores the interconnectiveness of all living things. |
| The program returns to Bartok for the final number. His DIVERTIMENTO is part of the genre of music composed to be light entertainment for social occasions. This piece was composed in 1939 just before Bartok fled Germany to escape WWII and emigrated to America. The orchestra will perform two of the three sections of the work – “Allegro Ma Non Troppo” and “Allegro Assai.” |
STREAMING OPTION for WINTER ORCHESTRA CONCERT
SATURDAY, December 13- 7:00 pm
ALL TICKETS – $10.00
STREAMING from DSA Concert Hall
| THIS OPTION is only for streaming the concert from the comfort of your living room. They do not permit entrance to the live event. The program for this evening consists of a variety of compositions from classical and contemporary composers. Starting the program is the popular FOUR SEASONS by Vivaldi, published in 1725. The suite consists of a concerto for each season with the orchestra celebrating the return of “Spring” in this performance. This is followed by Bela Bartok’s ROUMANIAN FOLK TALES which takes us to a remote countryside using transcribed Transylvanian folk melodies. LIEUTENANT KIJE by Prokofiev was originally written to accompany the Russian movie by the same title in 1935 and has been used since in other soundtracks of military movies. ROUNDS is a piece for piano and string orchestra written by Jessie Montgomery, a prolific contemporary American composer. Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem “Four Quartets,” ROUNDS explores the interconnectiveness of all living things. |
| The program returns to Bartok for the final number. His DIVERTIMENTO is part of the genre of music composed to be light entertainment for social occasions. This piece was composed in 1939 just before Bartok fled Germany to escape WWII and emigrated to America. The orchestra will perform two of the three sections of the work – “Allegro Ma Non Troppo” and “Allegro Assai.” |