Music

The Sadies keep it dark and circular on their latest album

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Darker Circles, The Sadies’ latest work, is appropriately titled. The album is as cyclical as it is dark. Guitar chords and drum riffs allude to previous tracks constantly, building a solid and steady album that concludes beautifully...

CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony

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Music Director Peter Oundjian will conduct the final two weeks of the Colorado Music Festival 2019 season, with four orchestral concerts July 25–Aug. 3. Oundjian’s...

Dom Lalli’s loose ends

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I’m keeping… pretty busy these days,” Dom Lalli says, anticipating the question of what a performing artist is doing while the Nasty Little Germ...

Pro Musica Colorado offers four seasons

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The Colorado Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra will perform Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 2: “The American Four Seasons,” but don’t ask which season each movement represents...

Cheese in threes

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When String Cheese Incident announced their summer tour plans a few months back, it was hard not to notice all the three-nighters they had on the bill. Red Rocks Amphitheatre (of course), Horning’s Hideout, Electric Forest. SCI has landed and kept itself near the top...

New director, new direction

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The annual Boulder Bach Festival has been an important part of the city’s classical music scene for 30 years. But this year the Finale Concert has a new look...

Ars Nova and Sphere Ensemble team up for self-led concerts

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There are choirs that sing without a conductor, and orchestras that do likewise. But combined choral-orchestral concerts usually require a conductor...

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Paper Bird...

Rah Rah’s new album deserves cheers

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I don’t know much about Saskatchewan, but judging from its general flatness and its central location, I imagine it must be Canada’s super-polite version of the Kansas- Nebraska area, just with a different accent and more snow...

Kronos Quartet celebrates the spirit of the ’60s

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Kronos Quartet, the string quartet known for adventurous programming, from Hendrix to George Crumb and music from around the world, turns 47 this year,...

Beating the heat: Dead Winter Carpenters at the Fox Theatre

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As June has given way to July, the heat index has inched up around Colorado. Boulder and Denver have seen their first handful of 90-degree days, with many more on the way. But coming from Phoenix, the Dead Winter Carpenters will kindly take Colorado’s summer sun...

Inspired by a tragic story, ‘Heart of Hungary’ features Edward Dusinberre...

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Some stories just have to be told. That is what composer Jeffrey Nytch thought when he heard about Sandor Feher, a violinist who died on...