The Fort Collins Symphony has been invited to do a return performance at the Loveland Sculpture Invitational Patron Party on Friday, August 10th. Several of our symphony players will be revealing various aspects of their performing personalities. Corry Petersen will return with his Jazz Quintet. You may have had the pleasure of hearing them at the June 7th soirée. Here is another opportunity to experience them! Wil Swindler will bring his Jazz Quartet and April Johannesen is leading the clarinet section in a Dixieland Clarinet Quartet.
The music starts at 5 p.m. and continues until 8 p.m.

Heralded as one of the finest outdoor juried exhibitions of three-dimensional artwork in the United States, Sculpture in the Park features the work of more than 200 sculptors from around the world. The event is majestically staged against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains and attracts thousands of art lovers and collectors from across the country to Loveland's Benson Sculpture Garden.

The second weekend of August, Benson Sculpture Garden is transformed by the Loveland High Plains Arts Council and their volunteers from a park into a beautiful setting for this outstanding exhibit. Highlights of Sculpture in the Park include Friday night's Patron Party and a two-day silent auction.

Sculpture in the Park is sponsored by the Loveland High Plains Arts Council. For more information about the show, a catalog, or an LHPAC membership, call (970) 663-2940.

Benson Sculpture Park will be closed July 31, 2007 through August 10, 2007 to allow for the set-up of the Sculpture in the Park show.

No smoking, bikes, rollerblades, skateboards, scooters or animals (except for service dogs) allowed at the show.