“The Aspen Music Festival and School will celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday and the centenary of U.S. women’s suffrage” during its 2020 season, writes Austin Colbert in Wednesday’s (2/5) Aspen Times (Colorado). “The Beethoven programs will include a two-night recreation of the composer’s historic December 1808 concert in Vienna, which included the premiere of his Fifth Symphony and major middle-period works…. Pianist Inon Barnatan, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and violinist Benjamin Beilman with the Aspen Festival Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto…. Works by and about women [will include] Julia Wolfe’s ‘Fountain of Youth’ … and the premiere of a newly commissioned work by Sarah Kirkland Snider based on texts by prominent American suffragists…. The season will include … Virgil Thomson’s opera ‘The Mother of Us All,’ about the life of suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Women composers … include Kaija Saariaho, Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli and Melody Eötvös. Works inspired by women authors include Kevin Puts’ ‘Letters from Georgia,’ based on Georgia O’Keeffe’s writings … and a spoken performance of Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise.’ … Music Fest will launch its new Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program, overseen by the acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming and Houston Grand Opera artistic director Patrick Summers.”