Performances & Concerts
- The CU Philharmonia Orchestra concert Nov. 15 will feature a new work by Jessica Mays, Maurice Ravel’s “Ma Mère l’Oye” and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 in D major/minor, Op. 107.
- Performing high energy, tightly-knit traditional, neo-traditional and highlife dance music from Ghana, CU’s West African Highlife Ensemble is the first university ensemble in the U.S. to perform highlife music.
- Master’s candidate Nicky Shindler fuses contemporary floor work with b-girling to inspire a visual celebration of a woman's authentic self––contemplating how women find, claim and manifest power, vulnerability and complexity.
- When a drought creates a terrible water shortage, the government forces citizens to use public toilets regulated by a malevolent company. A hero decides he's had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom! See the show Nov. 11–14.
- Pendulum New Music will present its second concert of the year. Says director and Assistant Professor Annika Socolofsky, “We’re a rowdy bunch that loves to take risks and experience a huge range of musical genres and aesthetics.”
- A new "musical grand tour" of the solar system will debut at the Fiske Planetarium from Oct. 22 to 31.
- Though Ray Charles died in 2004, today’s audiences have the opportunity to spend an evening with the gifts he left behind. Award-winning artists Clint Holmes, Take 6, Nnenna Freelon and Tom Scott will perform some of the most popular hits from his catalog.
- The Thompson Latin Jazz Ensemble, which studies music from the Caribbean and South America and its integration and ties with jazz, will give a free performance.
- Whether you're an experienced singer or a first-timer, learn more and be part of the chorus in this communal singing event at Boulder’s Central Park Bandshell, sponsored in part by the 91Ƶ College of Music.
- Just in time for Halloween, join the Department of Theatre & Dance for spine-tingling ghost stories from around the world. Bring a friend—you won’t want to watch this alone!