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Colorado Chamber Orchestra raises $4000 for soup kitchen

The Colorado Chamber Orchestra is pleased to announce our 2010 Valentines Day Benefit Concert for the Capitol Hill Community Services Soup Kitchen raised $4000 for the soup kitchen at Trinity United Methodist Church. In addition, the concert was an artistic success and the musicians were paid. We are proud that not a dime of public or tax monies were used for this benefit concert. www.cochamberorchestra.com

NEA Study - Artists in the Workforce

A new NEA report, Artists in the Workforce, details how Artists represent 1.4 percent of the U.S. labor force and constitute one of the largest classes of workers in the nation.

“The time has come to insist on an obvious but overlooked fact — artists are workers. They make things and perform services, just like other workers, and these goods and services have value — not merely in lofty spiritual terms but also in dollars and cents. Without denying the higher purposes of the artistic vocation, this report shows that artists play an important role in America’s cultural vitality and economic prosperity.”

Dana Gioia
Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

Lone Tree Symphony's taking much, giving little - by Pete Vriesenga

Every summer, residents of Lone Tree, CO and neighboring communities enjoy a free concert by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. These concerts are presented in Sweetwater Park by the City of Lone Tree, but this coming summer the Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra (a volunteer community orchestra) will replace the CSO. A CSO file photo still adorns the Lone Tree Summer Concerts website, but now accompanies a July 24 listing for the LTSO.