By CPR News | February 2, 2026
Orchestral music as a team sport
There’s a cacophony of sound as individual musicians from the Colorado Symphony take their seats on the stage of Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium on Sunday morning. The deep baritone of a trombone tuning up, string instruments playing bits of melody, the high pitch of a flute running up and down a scale.
This is the last stop of the Colorado Symphony’s debut tour in New York City, where they are about to perform with world-renowned violist Itzhak Perlman. The program includes American composer John Adams’ “Frenzy,” which has never been performed…