Music
Licking the beaters
When I was a 12-year-old aspiring musician and daydreamer, music flowed through my mind like heroin in William Burroughs’ blood. I wanted to play hard and crazy like the metal bands I idolized. My dad’s friend loaned me a nice Yamaha acoustic guitar, and I rigged it ...
A beloved staple of the holiday season in a new medium
It’s a Wonderful Life, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, started its performance life with a workshop at CU...
Luigi Cherubini is a gem
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini just may be the most influential classical composer you have never heard of.
As director of the Paris Conservatoire...
Yekwon Sunwoo comes to Boulder
Pianist Yekwon Sunwoo always travels with his music.
“Even if I know the piece well,” he says. While on tour, he adds, “I try to...
Takács Quartet and Boulder Phil deliver a classical double-header
Boulder will see a classical-music double-header Sunday, Sept. 24 as the Takács Quartet and the Boulder Philharmonic both open their seasons the same day.
The...
The long strange trip abides
Call it Grateful Dead 2.0: How the counterculture became mainstream
The Infamous Stringdusters push themselves and the genre
The Infamous Stringdusters’ website includes what might seem like a bold statement from the group. It says simply: “The Future of Bluegrass.”
In talking to...
Free CDs and mp3s
To hear Khouri Austin tell it, nobody in The Foodchain sat up one day and said, “Let’s start a band...
