Music
My brightest dancer
When Shara Nova laughs, it’s like a break in storm clouds. You can feel warm sunlight flooding over everything in the general vicinity, vanquishing...
Blurring the lines
The Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF) is a place for hackers. Not hackers like Gary McKinnon or Albert Gonzalez, but hackers like Brian Eno,...
Dave Mason is feelin’ … pretty good
There aren’t many artists of Dave Mason’s vintage who can escape being defined by their past, and for most them — rockers who came...
Boulder Philharmonic pairs ‘complementary’ composers Beethoven and Elgar
Michael Butterman, music director of the Boulder Philharmonic, thinks that Beethoven and the English composer Sir Edward Elgar go well together, but he’s not...
Pro Musica Colorado looks backward, forward and outward
The next concert by the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra will look backward, and forward, and outward.
The program, titled “Classical Evolution,” will be presented...
Knocking down dominoes
On Jan. 6, Jeff Kassel and Jake Lobel looked out over the crowd at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge. The electronic dance music producing...
Feeding the world
"How do you like your latte?” Andrew Love asks from across the kitchen island as I settle into a plush couch just a few...
El Ten Eleven
Chalk it up to good luck or the benevolent hand of Providence, the SoCal duo El Ten Eleven landed safely in Philadelphia (see what...
Ditching the smoke machines
The live music scene in Tokyo (but not so much in smaller cities in Japan) works a little differently than it does here in...
The best of both worlds
In 1969, thousands of people crammed into the Royal Albert Hall in London to watch Deep Purple perform their Concerto for Group and Orchestra...
The ghost in the machine
The Icelandic composer/keyboardist Ólafur Arnalds creates music that drifts gently across reflective surfaces.
Summoning resonance and fleeting shadows of emotion, some have called it...
