Music

The language of the people

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In 1990, a lawyer named Craig Ferguson found himself in a hotel room in Chicago dreaming of a new phase of his life, one...

Magic in the acoustic guitar

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We don’t know, and wouldn’t ask, if Andy McKee was a church-going kind of guy. But preparing for our interview, we came across a...

All who wander are not lost

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It’s no great concession for any but the most hardened cultural cynic, that most artists working in popular music eventually must explore the limits...

Act accordingly: ARISE up

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There was a time, if you can believe it, when Paul Bassis — co-founder of the extremely woke, half music, half co-creative ARISE Festival,...

Festival finale

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Peter Oundjian, the internationally recognized artistic advisor of the Colorado Music Festival, will be in residence for the festival’s final days, through Saturday, Aug....

A nice metaphor for life

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Andrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the...

Waiting for birdsongs

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Songwriter Kina Grannis has learned to let songs creep up on her. They always have a way of finding her — even if she’s...

CMF artistic advisor Peter Oundjian will lead concerts with Bernstein theme

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Peter Oundjian is the most distinguished musician to lead the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) in its 43 seasons. Since Jean-Marie Zeitouni stepped down as music...

Throwin’ elbows

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On Weekend Du Mort, when Boulder’s Dead Thing comes out in earnest to jiggle its head and look at its hands and dig the tie-dye...

Defining the artist inside

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Maybe the greatest subconscious human fear is that life is meaningless, or, as the late guru Alan Watts put it, that life is nothing...

A mix of operas large and small drives the season at...

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Pelham Pearce, general/artistic director of Central City Opera (CCO), insists, “there is method to my madness!” The madness is expecting audiences to attend opera high...

Guest conductors launch 2018 Colorado Music Festival

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The Colorado Music Festival, facing another year without a permanent music director, opens with two weeks of concerts led by guest conductors Marcelo Lehninger...