Katzin Music will be sadly missed. Retail in our current world is extremely challenging and not for the faint of heart. In these times, art and music are vulnerable to extinction.
But artists and musicians are a determined, stubborn, resilient group, and they won’t be stopped in their creating. The true legacy of Katzin Music is the thousands and thousands of students who took music lessons at the Katzin Music Studios. Did you happen to be in the store after school and hear the cacophony of music as students of violin, flute, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, piano, guitar, drums and voice all practiced their scales, songs, and expression during their weekly lesson?
Besides selling strings, valve oil and reeds, sheet music, instruments and gear, along with Roger and Jim’s instrument repair shops, this was the place to learn music, directed by the unwavering champion of music education, Ruth Katzin. She has always taken the high road in cultivating, developing and sustaining music education, as well as putting together a stable of the area’s most diverse music teachers. Ruth, Jim Gillespie and Cathy and Scott Duncan have been deeply committed to the music through instruction and sales, caring for the needs of this region’s music students and musicians.
For 39 years, and for several generations of musicians, Katzin Music has provided an abundance of cultural richness to our Southwest corner of the world. To the Katzin family: Bravo! Standing ovation! The music lives on!
Jeff Solon
Durango
