Arts and Culture

Lamont Featured Performance: Lamont Symphony Orchestra Side-by-Side with the Phoenix Youth Symphony

Lamont Featured Performance: Lamont Symphony Orchestra Side-by-Side with the Phoenix Youth Symphony

This weekend the Lamont Symphony Orchestra will collaborate with the Phoenix Youth Symphony, an organization internationally recognized as one of the premiere youth orchestras in the United States, for a concert of epic proportions. The Phoenix Youth Symphony will open the concert with Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite, under the direction […]

Stamps from around the world turned into one-of-a-kind map

Stamps from around the world turned into one-of-a-kind map

Using canceled stamps she got from international student applications, Betsy Pike — now an admission coordinator for University College — made this world map when she was a work-study student in the Office of International Student Admission. Pike (BA ’03) says the recent increase in online applications results in far […]

Holiday CD features Lamont musicians getting in the spirit

Holiday CD features Lamont musicians getting in the spirit

When the members of Denver-based rock band Opie Gone Bad started making a list of local musicians they wanted to join them on their new Opie Gone Christmas CD, they immediately thought of two Lamont School of Music faculty members: classical guitar instructor Masa Ito and jazz piano instructor Eric […]

15 Colorado Artists collective pioneered modern art in Denver (VIDEO)

15 Colorado Artists collective pioneered modern art in Denver (VIDEO)

In 2011, when pretty much anything goes in the world of visual art, it’s hard to imagine what a big deal it was 60 years ago when a handful of Colorado artists left the realm of the real behind to go in a more abstract, modern direction. With 10 DU […]

Anonymous 4 visits Newman Center for a little holiday harmony

Anonymous 4 visits Newman Center for a little holiday harmony

From Gregorian chants to the Beach Boys to the pop-influenced groups on NBC’s “The Sing-Off,” there’s always been something about voices singing together in harmony that thrills the human spirit. “When you see people working together in harmony, whether it’s music or not, that kind of corporate unity of intent […]

Newman Center transforms into holiday showcase of dance and music

Newman Center transforms into holiday showcase of dance and music

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the University of Denver’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts, where 10 different local and national performers and performing arts groups will perform holiday shows throughout the month. Here’s a look at what’s on tap. Tickets for all concerts are available […]

Visiting artist Rupprecht Matthies has a way with words

Visiting artist Rupprecht Matthies has a way with words

What word would you use to describe your home? That was the question visiting artist Rupprecht Matthies asked his students at DU. Their answers will be on display starting Nov. 12 in his exhibit titled “¿Being Home?” at the Denver Art Museum (DAM). Matthies, a German artist, concentrates on words […]

Klezmer, funk, hip-hop mashup comes to Newman Center

Klezmer, funk, hip-hop mashup comes to Newman Center

At first glance, hip-hop and traditional Jewish klezmer music seem to have about as much in common as polka and heavy metal. But when longtime klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer met Josh Dolgin — aka Jewish DJ and multi-instrumentalist  Socalled — he knew he had the beginnings of something special. “I […]

Argent turns California travel hub into a ‘hare’-port

Argent turns California travel hub into a ‘hare’-port

No one has ever accused Lawrence Argent of being a miniaturist. A renowned sculptor and DU faculty member celebrated for his public art projects, Argent is known nationwide for I See What You Mean, the massive, 40-foot-tall blue bear peering into the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. In the […]

Students shine at Denver film festival

Students shine at Denver film festival

It’s been a good year for University of Denver documentary film students. In September, Right Click>Find Date — a documentary made by current grad students Jesus Sierra, Pete Ellis and Keri Noll — won best student film at the Estes Park Film Festival. And on Nov. 7 and 8, recent […]

Lamont students to stage Faust

Lamont students to stage Faust

In some ways it’s a shame that Lamont Opera’s production of Faust — the first fall opera in the school’s history — didn’t open a week earlier. With its themes of murder, betrayal and deals with the Devil, it would have been perfect for Halloween. “The theme of this opera […]

Lamont Featured Performance: MIJI Percussion Duo

Lamont Featured Performance: MIJI Percussion Duo

The MIJI Percussion Duo is sure to drum up a lot of great music during its stop at DU. The duo, which consists of Ji Hye Jung and Michael Zell, will play a wide variety of music, ranging from arrangements of Franz Schubert to Thierry De Mey as well as […]

Lamont Featured Performance: “Chansons Tristes”

Lamont Featured Performance: “Chansons Tristes”

Classical music lovers will be able to hear a duo of Lamont legends for a song. Cellist Richard Slavich and pianist Theodor Lichtmann will present a distinctive faculty recital called “Chansons Tristes.” The recital’s theme is song and will feature Paul Hindemith’s Variations on an Old-English Nursery Song: A frog […]

Artists display their botanical illustrations at DU’s anthropology gallery

Artists display their botanical illustrations at DU’s anthropology gallery

Work by students and instructors from the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Botanical Illustration program is on display in Art Meets Science, running through Oct. 28 at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology Gallery in Sturm Hall 102. The show features more than 50 botanical plates, plus field journals, samples from […]

Jazz singer Jane Monheit brings award-winning pipes to Newman Center

Jazz singer Jane Monheit brings award-winning pipes to Newman Center

If you want a sneak peek at jazz singer Jane Monheit’s Oct. 18 concert at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, get your hands on a copy of her newest album, 2010’s Home. Recorded with the same trio that will accompany her at the Newman Center — pianist Michael […]