Music

Opening the door to classical music

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Devin Patrick Hughes wants to be a doorman for classical music. The conductor of the Boulder Symphony has a mission to break down barriers that...

Inspired by John Prine

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Heavy Rotation this week is inspired by John Prine, a mix of mellow, comforting music that expresses a range of emotion often felt all...

‘Underrated masterpiece’

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Antonín Dvořák has written some of the most, and least, familiar works in the classical music repertoire. On the one hand are the “New World”...

This must be the place

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The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...

A kinder, gentler Ween

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 It´s hard to picture the two guys who wrote “Waving My Dick In The Wind” and “Spinal Meningitis” settling into suburban family life, but time has a way of imposing its will on everyone, even Gene and Dean Ween...

Meet the Ivalas Quartet

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The Ivalas Quartet only recently arrived in Colorado, but if you follow classical music you will be hearing about them soon. That’s because they are...

Eric Johnson: Now and then

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Depending on who you ask and what day you ask it, having that One Monster Hit is either a blessing or a boat anchor...

Waiting for birdsongs

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Songwriter Kina Grannis has learned to let songs creep up on her. They always have a way of finding her — even if she’s...

No joke

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If you’re a millennial of a certain age and persuasion, the unhinged anti-comedy of Tim Heidecker has likely shaped your cerebral cortex into knots...

Roots and wings, shadows and light

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On his way back from his honeymoon on Vancouver Island in 2018, Antonio Lopez picked up a copy of the “local alternative rag,” The...

Space oddity

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Perhaps the signature sentiment of Jason Pierce’s career as the frontman and sole permanent member of the band Spiritualized can be found on 1997’s...

Luigi Cherubini is a gem

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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...