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San Juan Symphony navigates the new world

At the heart of the next San Juan Symphony concert is a serenade that may have been a marriage proposal. Howard Hanson’s “Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings” was composed in 19...

DATE: Nov 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Fort Lewis College stages dystopian musical

There’s trouble in Urinetown

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango Chamber Singers to present varied program Sunday

What the world needs now is music and more music. On Sunday afternoon, “Heartstrings,” the newest iteration from the innovative Durango Chamber Singers, will take place. At 3 p.m....

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

The world in 10 minutes

A winning weekend at DAC’s 7th annual play festival

DATE: Oct 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Altius Quartet boys are back in Durango for recital

Fort Lewis College launches A.I.R. recital season

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Durango Arts Center hosts seventh annual 10-Minute Play Festival

Comedy, fantasy, meta-theater dominate

DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Recital Series getting underway Violinist, pianist perform at Unitarian Universalist Church

Tonight, violinist Brandon Christensen and pianist Marilyn Garst will unspool a remarkable program. Two majestic sonatas will frame two short contemporary works, and the concert will close w...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

The MET’s ‘Die Zauberflöte’ showing in Durango

Since Mozart completed “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”) in 1791, his light operatic fantasy has been reimagined many times. The MET Live in HD presents one of the most whimsical iterati...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Bellini’s ‘Norma’ launches MET Live in HD at FLC

If you live in occupied territory, your choices are limited: collaborate or resist. Norma, the title character in Vincenzo Bellini’s opera of the same name, does both – with disastrous resul...

DATE: Oct 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

San Juan Symphony, choral societies unite for concert

In early October, “Requiem for Eagles” will briefly alight in Durango and Telluride. At 7 pm. Saturday, David Lingle’s contemporary version of the ancient Latin Mass for the Dead...

DATE: Oct 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Duo presents Bach and Bruch; Quadrivium offers workshop, concert

The chamber music season begins this last weekend in September with an unusual singers’ workshop and concert and the beginning of the St. Mark’s Recital Series. Tonight at St. Mar...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Theater season starts with games, mystery

Fort Lewis College scans Pinter, Merely Players toggles Ludwig

DATE: Sep 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts