Dear Listener,

Welcome to The Classical List! 

Our goal at TCL is to provide the concert goer, occasional or frequent, a means of finding great, local performances to attend. Along with the occasional concert review, preview, and random musing by the editor (that’s me!), we want to equip listeners with the information they need to participate in and support local arts. From September to around the end of May, a weekly e-newsletter gives a brief overview of concert events for the week ahead. It’s all a fairly simple idea with unassuming origins.

During the process of deciding to move to Colorado a few years back, I began an exploration of the classical music scene. I already knew about the larger budget orgs which could afford to advertise on the sides of buses and stalk me through advanced ad targeting in my browser, but I had also an interest in the smaller organizations which are vital in a musical ecosystem. However, there was no great way of finding these groups. Google worked, but I developed a knack for locating an interesting performance only a few days after the concert.

Out of this fog of frustration was formed the idea for The Classical List. Starting with a spreadsheet of performances, I began sharing with friends upcoming performances I thought would be interesting to them. But the real leap forward was in the suggestion that I publish this spreadsheet online along with a weekly newsletter consisting of concert recommendations for the following week. All of this has now coalesced into what you see on your screen before you. 

I hope you find this website useful. If so, try signing up for the newsletter or inviting a friend to take a look. We’ll keep working on TCL until it is a useful tool in service of the music we can’t live without.

Musically yours,

Zach