Music
Symphony in a dream
Everyone loves a circus. Even at the symphony — in the temple of high culture...
Planet Bluegrass: Crisis to opportunity
Music lovers and musicians have enjoyed Planet Bluegrass’ scenic environment for years; however, the gorgeous vista created by the river and the cliff turned nasty during the flood...
Breaking the mold
After beginning its career playing basements and sleeping in vans, Atlanta-based metal outfit Mastodon has, over the course of its roughly decade-long career, become one of the most important and dominating metal bands in the country...
Digging in the vaults
Pasadena´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not usual résumé material for orchestral maestros. But Bahman Saless, who leads the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) in concerts Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, is not your usual maestro...
Luigi Cherubini is a gem
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...
Kind of blue
If you hear an entrancing rhythm coming from eTown Hall or the Boulder Outlook Hotel this weekend, don’t fight it. Instead, grab an instrument — or anything you have that can make a sound — and follow the sound. These sirens aren’t trying to wreck your ship; they ...
Eulogy of self
Composers who write their own musical eulogies do not usually create jolly pieces.
Dmitri Shostakovich, who suffered various forms of personal and artistic oppression throughout...
Review: Pretty Lights at Red Rocks
There’s absolutely no way I can write this review without bias. No one altered my college music sensibilities like Pretty Lights, whom I knew as the spearhead for Colorado’s charge into electronic music and indisputable winner of the hearts and ears of a generation ...
Greensky Bluegrass: All grown up
Maturity is a term some musicians prefer not to see associated with themselves or their bands. After all, music is considered a young person’s...
Stepping outside the country box
Phil Vassar found out that country music is still a play-it-safe genre when the song “Bobbi With An I” was floated to radio as a first single off of his current CD, The Traveling Circus...
