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Category Archives: Music

If an artist makes a piece but no one is around to write about it….

I’m sad to see theater critic John Moore and music/visual art critic Kyle MacMillan are taking the Denver Post‘s buyout. I’m not here to evaluate their decisions. I’m here to worry about the decline of newspapers supporting full-time arts writers and the effect that this has on the community. Especially a community like Denver, which [...]

It’s a little funny that I thought it was called the “five-hour workweek.”

This morning I started my practice by listening to two right-handed drumstick-hits in a row. I listened to their volume. I listened to how they were spaced within two given beats of the metronome. I listened to how they sounded when they had to artfully dodge my left hand interjecting. Such detailed listening is exciting [...]

I didn’t want to choose.

I was just featured in Music from Colorado in an article written by the excellent Kenna Bruner. (We ended up talking long past our interview.) She was looking for folks who took on the challenging classical music market with a bit of creativity — and, I think, a sense of humor — so she talked with [...]