Music
- Folsom Field hasn't hosted concerts since 2001. The sonic drought ends this summer with back-to-back shows by Dead & Company.
- Even for a Grammy Award-winning group, playing all 17 Beethoven quartets in live concert is an act of daring. Takács Quartet likes a challenge.
- CU music professor’s six-movement saxophone composition takes him to the brink of a Pulitzer
- It’s a rare thing to be a full-time librettist today. Mark Campbell (Thtr’75) would like to make it less so.
- Glenn Miller attended CU-Boulder for three semesters in the 1920s before earning fame as an entertainer in the 1940s.
- Ambition. Amor. Seduction. Betrayal. For CU’s opera singers, it’s all in a semester’s work. For some, it’ll be a life.
- Boulder’s legendary Fox Theatre on The Hill was named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “Venues that Rock,” a series highlighting the magazine’s choices for America’s best concert venues.
- As the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, many Buffs remember the band’s three riveting performances in Folsom Field.
- On May 22, 2011, in only 35 minutes, one-third of Joplin, Mo., was destroyed. During the recovery of Joplin’s tragedy, composer Hubert Bird found a way to bring the community together.