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Aspen is a place for trying things you’ve always dreamed about, or never thought possible.

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The raising of the music tent was once an annual ritual. The strenuous task, combining Aspen’s mountaineering and music traditions, took until noon.

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1949 was the year of music, of intellect, and of modernism’s birth in Aspen.

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The quixotic Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke and his wife, Elizabeth, are often called the founders of modern-day Aspen.

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Sixty years later, the Aspen Music Festival & School continues to make summertime Aspen unlike anywhere else on earth.

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As I sit at the computer this morning, I’m in shock. Or maybe it’s simply that I’m having an epiphany and it has yet to sink in.