Central City Opera to focus on touring
Rather than wait for Denverites to travel to Central City, the company is planning to hit the road more, visiting churches and community centers around the state.
Pianist Menahem Pressler is still making music at 90
With a visit to Steamboat Springs’ String Music Festival this month, the concert pianist talks about his 70-year career.
Five Questions: Colorado Music Festival ‘Mashup’ conductor-arranger Steve Hackman
The multifaceted musician returns to the Colorado Music Festival with another “Music Mash-Up.” Last summer, Hackman led his orchestral blend of Brahms and Radiohead. This time, it’s Beethoven-meets-Coldplay.
Boulder festival searches for a maestro
After 13 years under the helm of Michael Christie, the Colorado Music Festival is searching for a new artistic leader. Three finalists, selected by a committee from 30 applicants, will strut their stuff on the Chautauqua Auditorium podium this season.
BYOC just another night at the Colorado Symphony
The much-anticipated launch of the CSO “Classically Cannabis” series had all the makings of just another art gallery wing-ding — except for one thing.
The do’s and don’ts of putting on a pot-related arts event
The sale and use of marijuana is now legal — sort of — and cultural presenters are grappling with the law as they work to blend pot smoking with arts programming.
Brass players to headline first Colo. Symphony pot concert
Members of the Colorado Symphony seem unconcerned about their role in a controversial cannabis-connected concert.
A Denver-born composer survives Aurora theater shooting
Petra Hogan talks about her music and her recovery after sustaining a shotgun pellet in the brain during the mass shooting at a Aurora movie theater in 2012.
After 85 years in the dark, DU mural revealed
Following hundreds of hours of painstaking work, a team of students and professionals unveil a historic mural, hidden for decades under black paint in a University of Denver building.
Essay: The delicate art of programming a season
Marc Shulgold reads between the lines of the latest season announcements from the Colorado Symphony, Newman Center Presents and the Denver Center Theatre Company.
Five Questions: Jared Guest, Opera Colorado Young Artist
A budding Figaro describes his experiences of performing in Colorado public schools.
Why would anyone play a double reed instrument?
From hand-carving reeds to playing in tune, oboists, bassoonists and English horn players’ work is cut out for them.
Essay: The Broncos and the Colorado Symphony, both winning teams
Like the state’s Super Bowl stars, Colorado’s flagship orchestra is flying high thanks in large part to strong leadership.
Hey Santa, where’s our maestro?
Holiday concerts are always a big draw, whether an orchestra offers tinsel-covered pops or a Messiah by candlelight. Large crowds, familiar chestnuts and the Man in the Red Suit. Nothing’s missing — except the music director. What’s up with that?
