In celebration of our 20th season, The Playground is planning a 20-hour MARATHON highlighting all that we do as an ensemble and organization: concerts, community music-making, and more.

Hosted by MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater, the Evening Block series of concerts is the heart of MARATHON. 

7:15pm - ART SONG RECITAL - When you look through the kaleidoscope of your childhood, what do you see? Do the bright spots of hope, nature, and laughter stand out, or does darkness prevail? Join Leah and pianist Joshua Sawicki for a 30-minute program of (mostly) contemporary art songs that recall childhood and gently remind us never to stop playing, even amidst the gloom and doom of life today.

8:00pm - CENTERPIECE CONCERT - The main event! This chamber concert features the first work the Playground ever played, a new commission by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez for bass flute and ‘ghost’ string quartet, and a new work by Playground Director Conrad Kehn for the entire ensemble. The evening will also feature Leah presenting the Colorado premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate’s Ithánali, about a Chickasaw woman astronaut who is designated to be the first human to set foot on Mars, aware of the irony of her own action - colonizing Mars - and how it compares/contrasts to the historic colonization of her own tribe.

$25 gets you access to the full 20-hour MARATHON! More details can be found here: https://www.playgroundensemble.org/marathon