Music
Quicksilver Baroque brings ‘Strange and Wonderful Music’ to Macky
How many pieces of chamber music for two violins, trombone, bassoon and lute can you name?
None? Meet Quicksilver, a Baroque ensemble specializing in the...
Ars Nova Singers to perform 40-part pieces
In the history of European choral music, there are two major works that were composed for 40 different voice parts.
Yes, that’s four-zero, 40 parts,...
Adventures in geography and gender
Two of Boulder’s choral groups will separately spend the weekend exploring geography and gender.
Happily, both programs will be given twice in the Boulder area....
Haydn’s happy creation
There are lightning and thunder, leaping tigers and creeping serpents.
All of that and more is portrayed musically in The Creation by Joseph Haydn, but conductor...
To prog or not to prog
Progger isn’t the kind of band you might assume it is just from hearing the name.
Then again, it’s not exactly not what you...
Arise 2016
Strolling down the main vendor concourse on Saturday, the middle day, of ARISE last year, we happened upon a guy who, like us, was...
Le lion en automne
While the ravishes of time have recently silenced many of the genre’s great voices, including a few of his own friends, the seminal fusion...
From the terrestrial to the celestial
They conduct themselves like madmen, and explain their behavior by saying that in their thoughts they soar in the most far-off worlds ... Every...
Concrete Blonde tours for the fun of it
Concrete Blonde are that rare animal, an alt-rock band with staying power. The group’s first, self-titled album got the band’s career rolling in 1986, but it wasn’t until 1990’s Bloodletting, featuring the singles, “Joey,” “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” and “...
3OH!3 finally get a break to work on new music
On the Dec. 4 broadcast of the mtvU Woodie Awards, Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte walked out on stage to present the Left Field Woodie Award dressed like a couple of Lady Gagas. Foreman and Motte, known as the Boulder-bred group 3OH!3, lost the Best New Artist ...
Piece by piece
Place is a point of tension for Chris Bowers Castillo. The creative force behind Denver experimental indie trio Kiltro was born and raised in...
Stopping the clock
We asked Steve Morse — indisputably one of the planet’s most accomplished guitarists — if there were still parts of his own technique that...


















