Classical music - The Durango Herald

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

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

Music in the Mountains’ Mischa Semanitzky ‘very dedicated to adopting Durango’

Friends, colleagues remember one of festival’s founders

DATE: Dec 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Mischa Semanitzky, Music in the Mountains maestro, dies at 89

Conductor helped create Durango’s annual classical music festival

DATE: Dec 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

The Met Live in HD’s ‘The Exterminating Angel’ to be screened at Fort Lewis College

“The Exterminating Angel” is a scary new opera based on a scarier old movie. Rough, dark and depressing, the opera, by British composer Thomas Adès and his co-librettist Tom Cair...

DATE: Nov 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

FLC to host pianist as artist in residence

Fort Lewis College will host pianist Mark Valenti as its artist in residence, and will offer two events at the end of November at Roshong Recital Hall, Room 205, in Jones Hall: Va...

DATE: Nov 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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

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

Altius Quartet boys are back in Durango for recital

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

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

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