Author: By David Sckolnik Special to The Gazette

For its season finale, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic went big. Before the end of the evening, the Pikes Peak Center stage was packed with orchestral players. Even the modestly scored Beethoven “Emperor Concerto,” which opened the program, had a feel of magnificence. This was in large part due to piano soloist William Wolfram. After the…

“Alpine Symphony” by Colorado Springs Philharmonic 8 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave., $12-$59; 520-7469, pikespeakcenter.com History plays cruel tricks on creative types. In classical music, flip-flops in future fortunes are almost routine. Over a century removed from their “battle” for supremacy, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler have…

As always traveling with his wife, Monica, and 2-year-old son Marc, Colorado Springs Philharmonic music director Josep Caballe-Domenech is back in town to conduct the last two concerts of the 2013-2014 season. First up, he’ll try his hand at leading the orchestra in the dark as they provide the orchestral fireworks for a screening of…

It was a horrifying moment. One hundred years ago this April, as many as 25 people, many children, were killed outside of Trinidad. They call it the Ludlow Massacre. The ensuing conflict between striking coal miners and company-controlled militia went on to take the lives of perhaps 200 people. To commemorate this dark era in…

8 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave., $12-$59; 520-7469; pikespeak center.com Once every season, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s concertmaster becomes the center of attention. Michael Hanson will be the featured soloist for this weekend’s “Mozart 40” concert, performing Alexander Glazunov’s “Violin Concerto.” For this concert Hanson can let…