Back to Beethoven’s Ninth: Boulder Symphony, with ‘audacity in its DNA,’ revisits bold beginnings for 15th anniversary

Back to Beethoven’s Ninth: Boulder Symphony, with ‘audacity in its DNA,’ revisits bold beginnings for 15th anniversary

Most people in Boulder know a thing or two about hiking. For your first time on the trails, you usually start slow — a loop at Marshall Mesa, maybe a gentle incline winding through Chautauqua. Eventually, you work your way up to Longs Peak. The same goes for music — unless, of course, you’re the Boulder Symphony. When the company launched in 2010, it didn’t ease into the classical canon softly. Rather than dip a toe in the orchestral waters, it …