Orchestral Music

Garrett Ammon on Perpetual Beauty, Wonderbound and the power of beauty

Ballet Nouveau Colorado has been putting together some of the most innovative collaborations we've seen -- so it's appropriate that the group is moving forward with a new name and new digs. Before the company completes its transition to Wonderbound, though, it will present one more show under the BN ... More >>

Mega Gem

Colors of the West
Self-Released

Subterranean Sleep

February Sessions
Self-released

Eric Erhardt

A Better Fate
Tapestry

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 Colorado Composers Collective gathers at the Walnut Room on December 3

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Beats Noir!

13 Tracks From the Dark Side of the Beat
Self-released

Stylez II women: Best fashions of Boyz II Men with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Lookin' fine, Boyz II Men​It hasn't been medically confirmed yet, but I'm pretty sure my pregnant girlfriend left the Boyz II Men show with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last night approximately 250 percent more pregnant. Just as sexy and possibly even sexier than they were in the '90s despi ... More >>

Serj Tankian concert canceled, third Furthur show added

​Due to a scheduling conflict, Serj Tankian's show with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra originally scheduled for July 11 at the Denver Botanic Gardens-Chatfield has been canceled. Refunds are available at the point of purchase. Tickets purchased online or by phone will receive a refund within ... More >>

The Autumn Film

The Ship and the Sea
Self-released

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 >>

Spaceflight Orchestra

An Orchestra of One
Black Bridge

Moonspeed

Larimer Lounge

The Life There Is

Larimer Lounge

Hot Hot Heat

Happiness Ltd.

Hybrid

Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom

The Ladybug Transistor

Tuesday, August 14, the hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Symphony Rocks

Best There's Ever Been

Two Ton Boa

Saturday, November 4, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Great Perks

Final Fantasy

He Poos Clouds (Tomlab)

Band of Horses

Sunday, March 12, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Slow Runner

No Disassemble (Red Ink)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Lost Love

Central City Opera gives Vanessa its regional premiere.

Denver Done Dirty

Rattlebrain clowns D-town

Explore It

Get a manos-on experience at Machu Picchu

Spirit in the Sky

Swingin' from the rafters at Appaloosa Grill

Best Classical Recording

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

Follow That Story

The Big Picture

Candyland

Chris Widlar sounds a sweet note with Concertos in Chocolate.

Critic's Choice

Joe Jackson

The Dead Zone

With its precise duplications of Grateful Dead bootlegs, the Dark Star Orchestra is the ultimate cosmic cover band.

Sounds Like Fun!

Film on the Rocks

Best local-music reissue

New Music for Bowed Piano by Stephen Scott

Night & Day

December 31, 1998 - January 6, 1999

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

Blues--With Strings Attached

Lionel Young uses a violin to deliver the blues.

Calendar

Mar. 12 - 18, 1998

Thrills for the week

Thrills for the week

THRILLS

THRILLS

THE BRICO REQUIEM

DARK AND BRILLIANT