Music
CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony
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...
The mad scientist
By day, Jake Sheppard is a Boulder-based scientist, studying how the immune system interacts with cancer, using gene-editing software to explore how cancer cells change when certain genes are repressed...
It’s Bootsy, baby
William “Bootsy” Collins, bassist extraordinaire and rhythmic savant, has done it all. He played regimented, tightly wound funk with Godfather of Funk James Brown. He played with George Clinton and his merry band of Funkadelic freaks. He broke out on his own. He made...
Flowers in bloom
After six years of almost non-stop concert tours, with more than 15 million CDs sold, Las Vegas band The Killers decided they needed a break. Their hiatus, except for an upcoming Christmas single, has provided the opportunity for their charismatic lead singer, ...
Kicking up the dust
During the two years that went into making her current album, Midnight, Grace Potter realized a game-changing truth about herself.
“I figured out that I’m...
Music and theater
At first glance, the Of Montreal/Janelle Monae tour seems to be somewhat of a odd pairing — the artsy Monae seems an unlikely counterpoint to indie glam-pop eccentrics Of Montreal — but they have more in common than first meets the eye...
It’s all good
The railroad tracks run parallel to First Street in Alabaster, which slips by a couple of used car lots and a strip mall or...
Animal lover
There is some glory, although not much, in being informally regarded as the greatest sideman guitarist of the last 40 years.
But in the case...
Mother of reinvention
While he was growing up in Athens, Georgia, nobody in Kevin Barnes’ immediate family played music. They had a piano in the house and his sisters took piano lessons briefly, but his parents never listened to music unless they were in the car. Fortunately, the Of ...
BCO’s ‘Romance’: An adventure with unfamiliar yet comfortable music
Romance,” the next concert by the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO), will offer music that is unfamiliar, yet comfortable for the audience...
