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Jerome Kern

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    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.

  • Culture

    January 12, 2012

    Present Laughter's mix of style and vulgarity works

    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.

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    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.

  • Music

    August 2, 2001

    The Voyage Out

    Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon has touched the “devil's music” with her own world-class style.

  • Music

    September 23, 1999

    Playlist

    Ralph Carney, Charlie Haden Quartet West, Enemymine, Styx

  • Music

    July 1, 1999

    Songs of the Century

    Part one of a pre-millennial salute to the music that made America sing.

  • Calendar

    February 12, 1998

    Calendar

    Part one of a pre-millennial salute to the music that made America sing.

  • Culture

    May 1, 1997

    Strife on the Mississippi

    Part one of a pre-millennial salute to the music that made America sing.

  • Calendar

    April 17, 1997

    Thrills for the week

    Part one of a pre-millennial salute to the music that made America sing.

  • Music

    March 20, 1997

    The Profit of Jazz

    Businessman Al Ferguson believes there's money to be made from his sound.

  • Music

    October 24, 1996

    Over the Moon

    A new breed of country fan is taking a shine to Moonshine Willy.

  • Music

    March 22, 1995

    AND THE WINNER WAS...

    A new breed of country fan is taking a shine to Moonshine Willy.

  • Music

    December 14, 1994

    TONY! TONY! TONY!

    TONY BENNETT IS GETTING OLDER--AND BETTER.

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