Music
‘Subversive, seditious, bawdy proto-feminist’
Conductor Nick Carthy says that Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is “the first great proto-feminist opera, and on top of that it’s subversive, it’s...
Eric Johnson: Now and then
Depending on who you ask and what day you ask it, having that One Monster Hit is either a blessing or a boat anchor...
King’s Singers return to Boulder with music familiar and new
Pat Donnachie can hardly wait to get back onstage. With an audience. In Boulder.
As a member of the King’s Singers, Dunachie was accustomed to...
The five archers
It’s hard to imagine putting out your first record in the middle of a global pandemic, but then again, it’s hard to imagine entering...
Scenes from a life
In the earliest days of my residence in the People’s Republic, I lived next door to a guy who designed and crafted molds for...
Preparing for the ‘Rapture’
Peter Kater’s never been religious, but he’s had his share of divine experiences.
Mushrooms, LSD, fasting, meditation — the two-time Grammy-winning, classically trained pianist has...
Is Eric Johnson learning to relax?
Anyone following the career of Austinbased guitarist Eric Johnson has learned to reconcile the guitarist’s singular fretboard mastery with his sluggish pace of releasing recordings. Johnson endured years of interview questions about his notorious perfectionism (...
Growin’ ‘Grass
50 years later, RockyGrass in Lyons has become one of America’s great bluegrass festivals
‘Bamboozling’ piece anchors Boulder Phil concert
Michael Butterman, conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic, was sitting in his driveway, thinking “What on earth is going on?”
“It was just an amazing mix,”...


















