ML - Aspen Peak

2014 - Issue 1 - Summer

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PHOTOGRAPHY © HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON/MAGNUM PHOTOS Outdoor musical happenings have been a part of Aspen's culture for years. Here, spontaneous drumming breaks out in Wagner Park on July 4, 1971. I t was Independence Day 1971. Carole K ing's "I Feel the Earth Move" was at the top of the Billboard charts. Marvin Gaye had just released "What's Going On." And in no small part, thanks to the Summer of Love four years prior, America was undergoing a music-fueled sea change as the hippie movement made its mark on a nation in transition. Captured in this almost-sweaty shot by photorealist Henri Cartier- Bresson, an idyllic Aspen summer afternoon is interrupted by the long-haired drum-circling drifters assembled en masse in Wagner Park at the foot of Aspen Mountain. There was music playing as the crowds danced down Monarch Street, but with an unlikely soundtrack—the annual Aspen Music Festival, which on that day featured works by Charles Ives and Ludwig van Beethoven, a far cry from the music mak- ing waves in Berkeley, more than 850 miles to the west. And though Aspen has traded drums and dreadlocks for derivatives and day trades, the city remains a destination for music lovers, due to the festival's annual summer season, and more popular music events out- doors, thanks to Belly Up Aspen and JAS Aspen Snowmass. With plans underway to renovate Wagner Park by late summer and with live out- door music spectacles gaining in popularity, the park may soon welcome the latest generation of musical wanderers. A recent concert series—held in conjunction with this past winter's X Games—featured popular acts like French alt-rock band Phoenix and the Dutch DJ Tiësto. "Aspen pro- vides such a unique setting for a DJ set," Tiësto said at the time. "And I can't wait to party on the slopes." AP Park and Recreation ASPEN'S GROUND FOR GATHERINGS, WAGNER PARK HAS LONG BEEN THE HEART OF TOWN. WITH NEW OUTDOOR MUSIC CONCERTS SCHEDULED THIS SEASON, OUR SUMMERS OF LOVE CONTINUE. BY JOHN VILANOVA ASPENPEAK-MAGAZINE.COM 9 008-009_AP_FOB_FR_SUM_FALL_14.indd 9 5/6/14 2:07 PM

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