Music
Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents music grown from friendship
David A. Jaffe’s new Violin Concerto grew out of a friendship between the composer and a Colorado violinist.
Karen Bentley Pollick, who lives in Evergreen,...
Worth a thousand riffs
Lisa Siciliano didn’t set out to be a rock and roll photographer. In fact, after she graduated college in 1991 and moved to Boulder, she didn’t really set out to be anything...
Symphony in a dream
Everyone loves a circus. Even at the symphony — in the temple of high culture...
Making whatever music you can
Start with a gritty New Orleans street-band influence — all fun, all music, all party. Throw in more musical influences than you can count, from Eastern European gypsy grass to George Clinton funk to Bugs Bunny cartoons, and you’re getting close. Add a sizable ...
Strings sing in the park
Sounds of Lyons, the quirky chamber-music-festival-that-could in Lyons, returns this year in a brand new format...
Space oddity
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...
CU NOW presents scenes from Tom Cipullo’s comedy ‘Hobson’s Choice’
Leigh Holman, director of the University of Colorado Eklund Opera Theater, has made Boulder a mecca for composers.
Every June for the past 10 years,...
Performance plus music
People who see He’s My Brother She’s My Sister can expect the band to be able to faithfully reproduce the songs from their recently released full-length debut CD, Nobody Dances In This Town, in a live setting...
The man, the myth, the legend
Though they were incredibly gifted performers whose music still resonates and whose influences remain readily apparent today, you don’t see bumper stickers reading, “God Bless Janis Joplin.” Or Jimi Hendrix. Or Frank Sinatra. Or Dean Martin. The only such bumper ...
Blast from the past
When I was a teenager, I sweated out my adolescent angst in a barely listenable garage band like countless other young, hopeful musicians with grandiose visions of rock stardom...
After 25 years, Clutch continues to look forward
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Clutch. But you won’t find frontman Neil Fallon getting overly nostalgic about the band’s history or thinking...
