Author - The Durango Herald

‘Suite of Dances’: San Juan Symphony joins the Florence Price revival

Innovative music programming drives today’s major symphony orchestras. Aligning old and new, classic and contemporary, European and American music in concert, even recordings, seems to be a ...

DATE: Feb 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Merely Players stages a farce for laughter’s sake

A murder-mystery spoof just in time

DATE: Feb 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

The trumpet shall sound: College launches winter recital programs

Trumpeter Wiff Rudd is on his way to wintery Durango from Dallas to give the first music recital of the semester at Fort Lewis College. Performing under the banner of the newly named FLC De...

DATE: Jan 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Editorial Cartoon

DATE: Dec 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

For the love of music: Youth orchestras perform again – live at Concert Hall

Musicians set to take stage Monday night

DATE: Dec 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Tisdale: ‘I have felt I personally had a stake in this’

FLC completes NAGPRA requirements in November

DATE: Nov 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

From darkness to light

Sunday FLC Showcase introduces music faculty

DATE: Oct 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Fort Lewis stages Native American Plays

When Fort Lewis College senior Tyler Gleason (Diné) played Rookie Carroca, an effusive Italian-American father in “My Favorite Year,” he seemed right at home. Naturally ebullient, Gleason bu...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

15 years and counting: Myrick says farewell after long, successful Symphony tenure

“I’ve stayed five years beyond my expiration date,” Kathy Myrick said with a wry smile. After 15 successful years as executive director of the San Juan Symphony, Myrick has decided to move o...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Exploring the unknown: Traveling down the Colorado with Merely Players

Theater company opens new space with ‘Men on Boats’

DATE: Sep 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Santa Fe comes to Durango

Recital series opens with chamber trio celebrating the visual arts

DATE: Sep 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Fort Lewis College cancels The MET Live in HD

After a successful 10-year run at Fort Lewis College, the popular MET Live in HD is kaput in Durango. “We’re not a priority group,” Charles Leslie, director of the Community Concert Hall, sa...

DATE: Sep 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch