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The quixotic Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke and his wife, Elizabeth, are often called the founders of modern-day Aspen.
The raising of the music tent was once an annual ritual. The strenuous task, combining Aspen’s mountaineering and music traditions, took until noon.
1949 was the year of music, of intellect, and of modernism’s birth in Aspen.
Aspen is a place for trying things you’ve always dreamed about, or never thought possible.
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