Music

ake Heggie, composer of the opera Dead Man Walking, and Gene Scheer, who wrote librettos for Heggie’s Moby Dick and It’s a Wonderful Life,...

In what could only be described as a perfectly resonant cultural expression of the times we live in today, the interwebs gleefully reported a few...

The young composer Orlando di Lasso wanted to impress Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria. The year was approximately 1555, Lasso was in his 20s and...

In September, there were two the same day; now Boulder will see three ensembles launch their seasons in the city’s crowded classical-music calendar on...

Summer in Boulder County carries a distinct set of visuals: a windows-down drive through the mountains, a picnic at the foot of the Flatirons,...

We’re not sure who observed once that “timing is everything,” probably someone somewhere whose timing sucked at exactly the wrong juncture, but Mike Dillon’s timing is pretty good. Not just because he’s a drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist — with a resume that ...

Mike Rosenberg is in a New York coffee shop when we get connected to chat. Maybe it’s the British accent, but he’s terribly charming. “Whot...

When Kristian Dunn, one half of the instrumental indie-rock duo El Ten Eleven, finished 2018’s Banker’s Hill, he found himself wanting to make shorter...

Taylor Parks, who goes by the stage name Tayla Parx, has one message: “Come as you are because, whatever that is, is acceptable.” It’s a...

Among its many discrete charms, The Wood Brothers’ new CD The Muse features a crafty little number, buried well down the program, which gracefully frames the Boulder-native siblings’ quizzically symbiotic approach to songwriting. Titled “Keep Me Around,” a poignant ...

What’s in Boulder’s headphones this week? From reigning champ T-Swift to newcomers Ghost Funk Orchestra, these are the albums flying off the shelves at...

In his attempt to reach Boulder Weekly via Skype a couple of weeks ago from the megalopolis of Wuhan, China, Tommy Emmanuel just gave up and brokered an old-fashioned long distance phone call. If the Chinese really are nicking the Pentagon’s pancake recipes, they’re ...