Deep Focus: Enriching the Aspen Experience

Erin Pratt delves into the enigmatic allure of unfinished works with a look at the monumental Art of Fugue and the famously incomplete final section, the Fugue in Three Subjects, left unfinished on Bach’s death.

Since its founding in 1949, the Aspen Music Festival and School has attracted and encouraged musical activity at the highest levels. Click through to explore some of the important figures and compositions that Aspen has made possible:

In the last Deep Focus essay of the season, Erin Pratt uses the slow movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony to explore the philosophical and spiritual ramifications of musical repetition.

Join Ravel expert Jessie Fillerup on a tour of the influence Ravel’s Second Suite from Daphnis and Chloé has had on film music—and its connections to the rest of this summer’s program.

In this essay, Imani Mosley traces the divergent postwar temporalities of W. H. Auden’s poem The Age of Anxiety and the Leonard Bernstein Symphony that it inspired.