Music
Beethoven’s path to the future
Violinist/conductor Peter Oundjian served as artistic advisor of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) for the 2018 season, a position halfway between giving advice and...
Striking a chord
To Trevor Terndrup, creativity is a use-it-or-lose-it sort of gift, which helps explain why less than 11 months after the release of Let the...
Still the queen of the local scene
"I’m sorry,” Wendy Woo says over the phone one recent afternoon, “I feel like I’m not a hundred percent focused. I’m taking a defiant...
There’s something about Béla
The concept is simple: Put a droll, middle-aged guy with a banjo on his knee in command of the legendary stage where John Lennon,...
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...
We’re just getting started
Modern politics and media are so intertwined it’s hard to view one without the other. But hasn’t it always been this way? Where would...
No competition in art
Some of the greatest pop music to emerge from the Western World has been a result of great friendships: Lennon and McCartney, Richards and...
MahlerFest XXXII offers two orchestral concerts in expanded schedule
Colorado MahlerFest is growing.
This year, the 32nd edition of the festival will feature more repertoire than ever, including two separate orchestra programs in Macky...
Beyond the swinghouse
After a failed attempt, or three, we finally caught up to Lao Tizer on a Friday afternoon after he had wrapped up a band...
‘Underrated masterpiece’
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”...
For every season there’s an Isakov
There are two seasons for Gregory Alan Isakov — touring and farming.
That’s why you only find the singer/songwriter on the road primarily in the...
Passport to the world
Alfredo Muro’s mother, like most mothers, wanted her son to pick a more stable career than music. But Muro, like most headstrong youngsters, wanted...
