Anti-Fracking Group Buys Tickets, Blows Whistles, And Distribute Fliers To Protest The Boulder Chamber Orchestra’s Funders

Responses from the company, who were putting on a concert sponsored by Extraction Oil and Gas, were pretty much like “look, taking money from private funders is the only way we get to do music; please deal with it.” The protest group did not blow their whistles during the performance, “but the whistle-blowing prompted a response from University of Colorado police, who stayed through the second movement of [Beethoven’s Ninth] symphony.”