Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Michael Hancock recommends spreading Better Denver bonds to Boettcher, Red Rocks and more

Back in 2007, Denver residents voted for an alphabet soup of nine civic improvements. While almost all of those bond-backed Better Denver projects are done (with signs to prove it), much of the money from G and H, earmarked for maintenance and construction of cultural facilities, including an update ... More >>

Colorado Symphony Orchestra will celebrate being back in the black

A year ago, it seemed like the Colorado Symphony Orchestra might be silenced altogether. The CSO -- which had emerged from the ashes of the Denver Symphony Orchestra two decades ago -- faced a $1.2 million cash shortfall at the end of June 2011 despite record sales that season, and some ugly sounds ... More >>

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra welcomes Andrew Litton into the fold

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra was clearly looking for a high-profile name, and it got one: This morning the CSO announced the appointment of Andrew Litton as its Artistic Advisor, bringing the superstar in as something less than a full music director, but more than a guest in the ranks. Litton w ... More >>

Barry Fey and Colorado Symphony make beautiful music together again

Rock promoter Barry Fey saved Denver's symphony in 1989 -- and was honored by a plaque in Boettcher Concert Hall for his efforts. But last year, when the Colorado Symphony Orchestra hit the rocks, its leaders weren't interested in Fey's help, much less locating his plaque.

Gene Sobczak returns to head the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

​Gene Sobczak, who was a VP and marketing guru for the Colorado Symphony Orchestra when he left in 2007 to head the Arvada Center, will soon be making beautiful music with the CSO again: The symphony board has appointed him to replace interim director Jim Copenhaver, who returned this fall to ... More >>

The city could still renovate Boettcher Concert Hall without matching funds from the symphony

​The Colorado Symphony Orchestra has been working hard to make it into the black for the 2011-2012 season by adding extra shows, making personnel cuts, pushing its fund raising and promising, in general, to do things differently. But it's unlikely that a planned $90 million renovation of the B ... More >>

The troubled Colorado Symphony Orchestra hopes to use old money for a new hall

The Colorado Symphony regroups with extra spring shows and a promise to stick around

​The new heads of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra -- returning CEO/President Jim Copenhaver and returning board co-chairs Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome Kern -- want to prove that the CSO will be all right. After reducing the symphony's October and November shows by half to help solve a cash-flo ... More >>

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra struggles on

Colorado Symphony​The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is struggling: it's over $1 million short on cash; its musicians are seeing massive pay cuts; and twenty of its board members (read: big donors) have left. The CSO cut five programs, which totaled ten shows, from now through early-December and ... More >>

Tired of highways? Adopt a musician! Denver Musicians Association has created the CSO Musicians Assistance Fund

Colorado Symphony​The 79 full-time musicians of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra have been taking steep cuts. They collectively agreed to give up $530,000 in September, and they took another hit when fall programming was trimmed back. To help soften the blow, the CSO Musicians Assistance Fund w ... More >>

Denver Musicians Association head Tom Blomster is optimistic about recent CSO changes

Colorado Symphony​The Colorado Symphony Orchestra has made a lot of changes over the past few weeks, including hacking almost half of its performances in October and November. In September, more than twenty members of the CSO's board of trustees resigned; Jerome Kern and his wife, Mary Rossick ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Roger Daltrey rocks, Micky Manor closes, robots hold prom, CSO holds on

Big pics below.​Another October weekend that felt like summer meant lots going on in our fair city -- and the happenings were captured at Westword's Backbeat Online, Cafe Society and Show and Tell blogs, as well as on our busy slideshow page. Look below to check out photos and excerpts spotlig ... More >>

Reader: If Barry Fey is a dinosaur, what's the Colorado Symphony Orchestra?

Before the Colorado Symphony Orchestra announced that it was cutting back its fall schedule in an attempt to balance a budget shortfall of $1.2 million, Show and Tell checked in with Barry Fey, the savior of the symphony back in 1989. Fey thinks that the current incarnation of the symphony could be ... More >>

Colorado Symphony Orchestra cuts back on fall schedule to save the rest

​Lots of sour notes at the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last week, with twenty boardmembers resigning before the musicians ultimately agreed to a 9 percent paycut. But at a meeting yesterday, what remains of the CSO board took several strategic moves to ensure the symphony's survival.

Q & A: Musical notes with contemporary composer Kenji Bunch

​Named a "Composer to Watch" by the New York Times, Juilliard graduate Kenji Bunch excels as both a talented violist and a composer. His highly accessible contemporary works have been heard worldwide, and as a performer, he's worked with everyone from the Flux string quartet to the bluegrass b ... More >>

Mile Highlights: This week's concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

Here's what's good in the Mile High City this week: On the concert front, we've received word that Kings of Leon is slated for a two-night stand at Red Rocks with Band of Horses, Tony Bennett is due at Ellie Caulkins and Symphony on the Rocks will feature Sarah McLachlan, among others. Meanwhile, ... More >>

Pink Martini show with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra rescheduled

​Pink Martini's show originally scheduled for Wednesday, April 6, has been pushed back to Saturday, June 4 due to singer China Forbes straining her voice. According to a release by the band, "medical voice specialists have advised her that to avoid permanent damage, she must not sing or even s ... More >>

Gogol Bordello, DeVotchKa, Interpol, Railroad Earth shows announced

​Gogol Bordello, who shared a headlining bill with Primus at Red Rocks last week, returns to the area for a two-night stand at the Boulder Theater on Wednesday and Thursday, October 27 and 28. Tickets for this one range between $36 and $41 and go on sale on Friday, August 27 at 10 a.m. The gyp ... More >>

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Yo-Yo Ma not the only one pitching for Colorado Symphony

Yo-Yo Ma took to the airwaves for the CSO.​Colorado Public Radio pledge drives aren't all that popular even with people who donate to keep the organization running. But at least the just-concluded session had a twist: Cash was generated to support a different organization -- the Colorado Symph ... More >>

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Today's featured event: Celebrate Cinco with the CSO

In this town, one supposes a Tuesday night in the middle of the week can stretch only enough to contain a Cinco de Mayo warm-up, regardless of what the calendar says. The real action, from Federal Boulevard cruisers to the big event in Civic Center Park, will probably heat up over the weekend. But ... More >>

It's Christmas, Charlie Brown

Catch a multifaceted rendition of this holiday classic.

Silence is Golden

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra channels Charlie Chaplin.

Drink It Up

The Brown Palace pours the champagne a little early this year.

Game On

I Hear a Symphony

Symphony Rocks

Great Perks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bacharach's Back

The pop legend leads the CSO

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Waver of the Future

Jeffrey Kahane picks up the baton for the CSO.

Explore It

Get a manos-on experience at Machu Picchu

Season's Greetings

The CSO hits the ground running.

Party Proopser

World horrors reduced to reality TV

Marin Counting

Best Classical Recording

Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4/Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
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Bitter Suite

A Denver conductor and music professor leads an ensemble fight to protect the classics.

Swimming With the Sharks

The SCFD is trying to stay out of hot water as it analyzes Ocean Journey.

Big Bang

Night & Day

September 24 - 30, 1998

Thrills for the week

It's the Pits

The CSO finds itself in the middle of a squabble over possible royalties from a new film.

Thrills for the week

Thrills for the week

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