Music

 

Growing up in a musical family, I remember looking forward to performing arts series on PBS. From "Dance in America" to "Great Performances," we'd take our front-row seats and immerse ourselves completely. It was time away from the mundane – and time well spent together. This month, we're in full swing with our arts programming. Tonight at 8, we stir up the holiday spirit with the uplifting new program "Celtic Woman: The Greatest Journey: Holiday Special." What arts programs in particular do you value and want to see more of?
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Over the summer, the Music in the Mountains festival in Durango presented Verdi's "Requiem," featuring the Durango and Telluride choral societies. Watch an excerpt from the concert below.
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This is an excerpt from the full concert of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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I was 14, riding in the passenger's seat of my mom's '78 Dodge Omni, on the way home to Tennessee from my Aunt Ruby's house in Kentucky. It was Sunday afternoon and I was searching the radio to find Kasey Casem's Weekly Top 40. And we heard the news. Marvin Gaye had been shot. By his father.
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Guess what, Generation Xers? You may still bounce like a human pogo stick at the first few bars of "Rock the Casbah," but that doesn't mean that you're not ... you know. [whispered] Getting up there in years.

Know how you can tell? PBS – that haven of nostalgia come pledge time - is not just wooing us with Doo Wop, the Osmonds and John Denver. This season's most surprising retro pledge concert comes from the British punk gods dubbed "The Only Band That Matters" – The Clash.
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Ryan Stringfellow talks about community radio station KAFM and its strong volunteer base.
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Despite my longtime insistence that artists owe us nothing outside their art, I was woefully disappointed to see Bob Dylan shilling Cadillac SUVs . Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. It's never been easy to predict what Bob will do next. Still, it's odd that a pioneer of counterculture with so many odes to the exploited would casually sell his image to the makers of an opulent gas guzzling machine (or Victoria's Secret, for that matter).
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Guy Stephens provides musical accompaniment to the beautiful colors of the Western Slope in Fall.
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Watch all four stories from the first episode of "Real Coloradans."
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Jumpin', Jammin', Jivin', and Swingin'! "Jazz in Five Points" celebrates the heritage and the history of Denver's African American community.
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