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This week’s opening of the 2024 Colorado Music Festival comes with the announcement that music director Peter Oundjian has signed a new, five-year contract, extending a collaboration with the Boulder-based concert presenter that dates back to 2018. It is very big news indeed; perhaps historic. Remember that Oundjian is also the principal conductor with the Colorado Symphony in Denver where he takes up the baton for key performances and helps guide the programs that the ensemble plays over the course of its entire season.

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It’s summertime. Let’s listen to live music outside. THE CITY PARK JAZZ series is one of Denver’s best free Sunday traditions. There’s still a lot of celebrating to take in when beloved Colorado singer Hazel Miller and the Collective take to the park’s Pavilion stage June 30 at 6 p.m. In July, enjoy the vibrations of JoFoKe & Same Cloth on the 7th, Delta Sonics Blues Revue July 14, the powerful Denver Jazz Orchestra on July 21, and saxophonist Nelson Rangell July 28.

Barry Diller may be looking to charge back into Hollywood — or, at least, he wants to be seen as a wheeler-dealer who’s in the hunt for struggling media company Paramount Global. IAC, the internet media and publishing conglomerate led by Diller, is “exploring” a bid to acquire Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc., the company […]

Imagine Entertainment is in the market for suitors again now that leaders Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have tapped J. P. Morgan to field incoming inquiries for the production company behind such distinctive hits as “A Beautiful Mind,” “Apollo 13,” “24” and “Friday Night Lights.” A representative for Imagine declined to comment Monday on a report […]

A lot of great cinema is made by happy accidents: certain intangible chemistries and tricks of timing that can’t be calculated even by the most exacting auteur. In the considerably rarer case of “Real,” the whole film is an accident, and one more vital than happy. Shot inadvertently while director Oleh Sentsov — not working […]