The Colorado College Summer Music Festival opens this year's Intermezzo Season with “The Art of Perseverance: Sounds of Hope and Restoration” beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5.

The concert features performances by Mark Fewer, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello; Susan Grace, piano; Jennifer DeDominici, mezzo-soprano; and Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin.

The concert also includes a wealth of CC student participation. Poetry that corresponds to the music will be chosen and read by Jane Hilberry’s poetry students: Iyanla Ayite, Janeiya Porter, Henry Freedman, Mary Andrews, Keiko Ito, and Anna Heimel. Music students Lillie Gray on violin, Jacob Lynn-Palevsky on cello, and Forrest Tucker on piano will play Carlos Simon’s piano trio be still and know, and Tucker and Lincoln Grench will perform Shostakovich’s Concertino for 2 pianos. Will Burglechner, baritone, with accompanist Daniel Brink, piano, will perform "Everything Else" from Next to Normal, with Kiara Butts, mezzo-soprano, serving as the alternate soloist.