Music

When Clayton Vaughn was 11-years-old, he started playing the cello. He is now a cellist in the United States Marine Band, the oldest continuously active professional musical organization in the country.

Jazz saxophonist Tia Fuller (MMus’00) and opera singer Wei Wu (MMus’13) receive Grammy Award nominations.

Dorothy Stolzenbach Payne was a legendary piano teacher. Her updated memoir includes new stories and photos from her life.

Takács Quartet, the Ralphie pool and the power of a lover's touch.

Boulder’s first nonprofit community FM station, 88.5 KGNU, began broadcasting in 1978.

Steve Lamos, who teaches English, writing and rhetoric at CU Boulder, is also the drummer for American Football, a late-’90s rock band that Rolling Stone ranks among the “Top 10 All Time” emo bands.

The first-ever gold record went to Big Band leader Glenn Miller.

A student's musical homage to a nation wins a hearing before the ambassador.

The book tells a story of human anguish and betrayal, love and loss, recrimination and regret and shows how choices, once made, can change one’s life forever.

For years, the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan. Now the country has its first all-female orchestra — and Allegra Boggess to thank.