Orchestral Music

The Best of Westword 1990

Toot Toot Tootie Toot!

Creative Music Works Orchestra cracks Ellington's Nutcracker.

Best local-music reissue

New Music for Bowed Piano by Stephen Scott

Bear Market

A listing of SCFD dollars doled out in 2000.

Best Classical Recording

Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4/Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Neil Haverstick

Spider
Self-released

Game On

Spider
Self-released

Musical Mentors

Re-Creative Fusion plays with improvisation.

Singing Dick

Re-Creative Fusion plays with improvisation.

Big Kahane

Jeffrey Kahane joins the discussion on the NPAC.

Full Fusion

Lemon Sponge Cake and Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra do something different.

Frankly Classical

Frank Zappa’s legacy goes from classic to classical.

Freddie's Not Dead

The CSO resurrects Queen.

Movie Music

The CSO resurrects Queen.

Tripp Nasty Orchestra

Carioca Cafe

Feast Your Eyes on This

DAVA brings art to all five senses.

Waver of the Future

Jeffrey Kahane picks up the baton for the CSO.

Thom Yorke, Thom Yorke!

Pianist O’Riley plugs into Radiohead for a cultural crossover.

High Rollers

Beats & Bowling lets the music fly

Knock 'Em Dead

Killing Joke's ghoulish rock has the last laugh.

Marin Counting

Killing Joke's ghoulish rock has the last laugh.

Bitter Suite

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

Right on Key

Marin Alsop spreads her wings.

An Unharmonious Ending

PeakArts founder Karen Romeo may be a victim of the Boulder arts community's haughty ego.

Backwash

This young whippersnapper is wise beyond his years.

Orchestral Maneuvers in the Works

The Creative Music Works Orchestra brings jazz out of the closet.

Surf's Not Up

The Ladybug Transistor steers clear of the beach.

Big Bang

The Ladybug Transistor steers clear of the beach.

Classical Rock

The Ladybug Transistor steers clear of the beach.

'Boning Up

A Boulder music festival pays tribute to the lowly trombone.

Blues--With Strings Attached

Lionel Young uses a violin to deliver the blues.

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

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

Thrills for the week

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

Feedback

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

WALKER ON THE WILD SIDE

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

ROCKIN' TO RUSSIA

A COLORADO PUNK ROCKER HEADS FOR A CLASSICAL GIG ON THE VOLGA.

NO JACKET REQUIRED

A COLORADO PUNK ROCKER HEADS FOR A CLASSICAL GIG ON THE VOLGA.

DARK AND BRILLIANT

A COLORADO PUNK ROCKER HEADS FOR A CLASSICAL GIG ON THE VOLGA.

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 >>

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 >>

Pops With a Pop Star

​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 >>

Sony's new Qriocity streaming service launched yesterday, is it enough to kill iTunes?

Sony's hoping to pique your qriocity (sorry) with it's new streaming music service this week, by offering a free thirty day trial, tons of different streaming options and a library of over six million songs from the four major record label and most everyone they distribute. We spent the day with t ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 co ... 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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

The Colorado Composers Collective gathers at the Walnut Room on December 3

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 >>