PRESS PLAYGROUND

 

2020

Denverite feature on “I am Raverro”- October 1, 2020

Westword feature on “I am Raverro” - September 30, 2020

2019

Vail Daily features Playground’s Very Young Composers Workshop - July 23, 2019

Women in Art Music, Rutgers University. Ruth Crawford: An Interview with Dr. Nancy Yunhwa Rao - June 2019

Westword feature on performance of Eight Songs for a Mad King "Is a Dream Come True” - February 21, 2019

2018

“Very Young Composers teaches kids to tell stores through music”, Vail Daily - July 25, 2018

2017

birdy magazine feature on Playground’s Graphic Scores concert at Mutiny Information Cafe - November 2017

CPR Centennial Sounds interview with composer Nathan Hall on “Notes from Clyfford Still” - October 10, 2017

5280.com features Loretta Notareschi and her Playground commission String Quartet OCD, and residency at Colorado Children’s Hospital - September 25, 2017

CPR Centennial Sounds features Loretta’s Notareschi’s Playground commission “String Quartet OC” - August 9, 2017

CBS News Denver features Loretta Notareschi’s Playground commission “String Quartet OCD” - September 20, 2017

Washington Post’s Top 35 Female Composers, featuring Playground’s performance of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet I & II - August 4, 2017

Vail Daily features Playground’s Very Young Composers program in its 11th year in Vail - July 26, 2017

CPR Centennial Sounds features Playground’s commission of Pulitzer winner Caroline Shaw’s “This Might Also Be a Form of Dreaming” performed with Shaw and Roomful of Teeth - April 26, 2017

2016

TEDxMileHigh interview with Loretta Notareschi on her TED talk - October 7, 2016

TEDxMileHigh: Loretta Notareschi’s String Quartet OCD, talk and performance - Summer 2016

Vail Daily: Very Young Composers Celebrating 10 Years of Growing Music in the Vail Valley - July 29, 2016

Denver Post: Colorado Composer Turns Experience with Postpartum OCD into Powerful Quartet - July 14, 2016

New Music Box - Musicians at Work: Ensemble Residencies as Social Relationships - July 6, 2016

The Guardian: Violent Femmes singer Gordon Gano talks Playground and arts and culture - February 21, 2016

Denver Post: The Crazy Side of Classical - January 29, 2016

Chamber Music America: Iconoclasts - Winter 2016

Denver Post: One weird way to spend a summer night in Denver, on Ghost Light installation collaboration - August 18, 2015

OLDER

Westword: 100 Colorado Creatives, Conrad Kehn - April 25, 2013

Denver Post: Meet Colorado’s 5 best chamber music groups - October 4, 2012

Westword: Soundpainting Serenade - March 17, 2011

Westword: Playground, review on first studio album - July 5, 2011