Community musicians to fete veterans in song
The Southwest Civic Winds, with the Durango High School Music Department and Durango Post 4031 of the VFW, will present a pre-Veterans Day concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Community Concert Hall at For Lewis College.
The concert will feature ensembles from the high school band, orchestra and choir under the direction of Katharine Reed. Band members will join in with the Southwest Civic Winds on the final two numbers of the concert, “Armed Forces Salute” and “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
The Southwest Civic Winds is a concert band comprised of more than 60 brass, woodwind and percussion musicians from the Four Corners conducted by Mark Walters of the FLC music department. They formed in 2012, and this will mark their fifth concert.
General admission tickets cost $10 for adults, $5 for children, and are available at the Welcome Center at Eighth Street and Main Avenue, by phone at 247-7657 and online at www.durangoconcerts.com.
Reynolds to give encore opera presentation
Judith Reynolds will give a free encore presentation of her Life Long Learning lecture “Opera 101 – Take #2” at 7 p.m. Monday in the Lyceum of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
Reynolds will deliver a 50-minute presentation about the history, humor and folly of opera. She is a music critic for The Durango Herald and provides regular previews of The MET: Live in HD simulcasts at Fort Lewis College.
For more information, call 247-7456.
Miniatures club to build breakaway boxes
The Four Corners Miniatures Club will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at Mancos Public Library, 211 First St.
The workshop for November is a breakaway box, assembled from foam board with hinged sides and a lid. When completed with fabric on the outside walls and a bow on top, it looks like a gift package but opens to reveal a room inside. Supplies to complete the basic box will be provided by the Club.
The club is for dollhouse and miniaturists of all skill levels. For more information, contact Marilyn White at 259-9401 or paintedady49@frontier.net, or learn more at www.4cornersminis.com.
Herald Staff
