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San Juan Symphony Orchestra packages musical box of chocolates

Next week, the San Juan Symphony has creatively packaged four events around Valentine’s Day. The orchestra has scheduled three exactly on Thursday, and its big weekend concert pair in Durang...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

MET Live delivers Love Potion No. 9

No doubt about it, “L’Elisir d’Amore” is a potboiler. Brimming with stock characters, melodramatic story line and the sudden discovery of a rich uncle, “The Elixir of Love” could...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Snowdown Follies’ old-timers show the upstarts how it’s done

Veterans and newcomers spin silliness into another Follies

DATE: Feb 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

The MET Live in HD explores sexual harassment

As the #MeToo movement surges, let me propose Tosca as its poster child. Floria Tosca is the fictional heroine in the tragic opera named after her. She’s a beautiful diva stalked ...

DATE: Jan 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

The phenomenon of PostSecret travels to Durango

Community Concert Hall, New Face Productions join forces to sponsor show

DATE: Jan 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Hidden gems to be found at St. Mark’s

The next recital in the St. Mark’s chamber music series has to be among the most unusual concerts to come our way in a very long time. Titled “Hidden Gems of Eastern Europe,” the ...

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Quadrivium ensemble continues outreach with the best in vocal music

A cappella group to offer performance, master class

DATE: Jan 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Music in the Mountains recalibrates education components

As Music in the Mountains enters its 32nd year, the organization is taking a long winter look at its various components. From a modest, and somewhat informal, beginning with 11 mu...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Dennis Elkins returns for Christmas

Pagosa mounts a comedic ‘Tuna’

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

How to say goodbye with style

DAC stages a theatrical farewell

DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

It’s a hard-knock life in rags-to-riches musical

Durango Arts Center’s Applause presents ‘Annie Jr.’

DATE: Dec 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

A Sondheim prescription for the holidays

“Not while I’m Around” is one of Stephen Sondheim’s warmest ballads. It arrives in the middle of one of his darkest, coldest musicals, “Sweeney Todd.” The message is that no matter how dange...

DATE: Dec 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch