CPR Classical Staff

Throughout the fall, CPR Classical is placing tickets in your hands. Each week, a new performance and your chance to catch the return of live music.

Colorado’s musical community share their memories of Yo-Yo Ma’s guest appearance in Denver during September 11, 2001 the role music played in helping us process and grieve after 9/11.

Instrumentalists throughout our state are safely gathering for rehearsals and audiences are ready for a successful return to the stage. Imagine the thrill of that first downbeat from the Maestro!

Maybe it’s the melody that captures your imagination, or the turn of a phrase, or perhaps it just feels deeply familiar on that first listen. CPR Classical wants to know what piece helped you fall in love with classical music.

Labor Day Weekend feels like a transition from summer–CPR Classical airs 100+ hours of listening for the long stretch.

Colorado Symphony is back at Boettcher Hall with an astounding calendar. First up, guest conductor Peter Oundjain leads the orchestra with legendary pianist Emanuel Ax.

Director Nathan Hall positions “Unbound” as a “multimedia, musical kink show.” The new work incorporates classical music and intimacy while striving to change audience perceptions of both desire and opera.

Unweathered by stormy conditions, conductor Peter Oundjian, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and visiting composer Joan Tower gave life to A New Day.

When not in Colorado, Scott Yoo also leads the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Festival Mosaic in California, and appears on the newest episodes of “Now Hear This” on PBS.

The first several decades of 4th of July celebrations meant nothing to those who were enslaved. What was there to celebrate? M.

In-person 4th of July celebrations are back! We’ve put together a list of places around the state to see and hear live classical music and celebrate the holiday!

M. Roger Holland, II and CPR Classical Program Director Monika Vischer discuss the double meanings many spirituals held to the enslaved community in Journey to Freedom: The Spirituals Radio Project.

Ready to unmask your enthusiasm for live music?

We’ve rounded up our favorite recordings of pieces by some of the most towering names in classical music. Listen May 27-31; it’s one essential after another for over one hundred hours!

Winners have been selected! Congratulations to Sally Wagner and Marie Valenzuela! CPR Classical Presents Central City Opera at Levitt Pavilion on Sunday, May 23 at 2:00 p.m.!

Could it be that Colorado’s large bovine audience could benefit from a little more classical music?