2025 CMF gets underway with “Rimsky-Korsakov on uppers” Hélène Grimaud plays Brahms, Steven Banks premieres sax concerto by Joan Tower By Peter Alexander July 1 at 11:34 a.m. The 2025 Colorado Music Festival (CMF) does NOT open with Scheherazade or the Russian Easter Overture, but fans of composer Rimsky-Korsakov should be pleased anyway. Music director Peter Oundjian says that the first piece on […] https://sharpsandflatirons.com..../2025/07/01/2005-cmf