Colorado Creatives: Susan Goldstein

Denver-based photographer and collagist Susan Goldstein re-conforms old, imperfect materials, images and glimpses of a dying America into new works with political and pathos-heavy messages.

Eight Songs for a Mad King Is a Dream Come True

Conrad Kehn was singing in the metal band Skull Flux when he first heard the avant-garde song cycle Eight Songs for a Mad King, a work with a birdhouse-shaped score by composer Peter Maxwell Davies that left mouths hanging open in the audience when it was first performed in 1969.