Most of the news surrounding the Colorado Symphony in the past couple of weeks has focused on its recently disclosed financial crisis.
But this weekend, as the orchestra launches its 2011-12 Masterworks series with concerts at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday in Boettcher Concert Hall, it has a chance to set aside dollars and cents and focus on what it does best: making music.
To mark the occasion, host Charley Samson and Colorado Public Radio, KVOD-88.1 FM in Denver, will present a live broadcast of tonight’s season-opener at 7:30.
On the podium will be Yan Pascal Tortelier, left, principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in Brazil and conductor emeritus of the BBC Philharmonic.
The program will include Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” the opening of which was made famous in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 40.
Tickets are $19-$82. 303-623-7876 or . Kyle MacMillan
