Culture Gulch - The Durango Herald

Performing arts in bloom

Durango’s persistent shortage of social and performing arts venues is changing. Tonight (May 12), Durango’s finest mid-sized performance venue will host another memorable recital and a new v...

DATE: May 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

A historic musical merger

After more than two decades of organizing, and sponsoring a multitude of concerts and festivals, searching out, cajoling, persuading and convincing top-notch musicians to participate, and cr...

DATE: Apr 19, 2023 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Sweden comes to Mesa Verde– again

“What about repatriation?” Mats Carlsson-Lénart asked the question last week in the middle of an interview with me for the Swedish Broadcasting Co., the American equivalent of NPR, National ...

DATE: Apr 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Bach Festival, 16 and counting

Starting Sunday and all next week, Third Avenue Arts will celebrate the 338th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. It’s the 16th annual collection of recitals and concerts organized by Four Co...

DATE: Mar 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Marie Curie’s year

We just passed the 155th anniversary of Marie Curie’s birth. She was born Nov. 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. She was the first woman scientist to win a Nobel Prize – 1903 in physics and in 191...

DATE: Nov 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Sonata, serenade, tango

Flute and harp recital tonight

DATE: Nov 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

It’s a wrap on Durango PlayFest 2022

PlayFest 2022 has concluded a successful fourth season. Total attendance for the seven readings totaled 663, according to official records. The new venue, a large, white tent at Fort Lewis C...

DATE: Aug 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

A wagonload of music

A snazzy, green-and-white traveling performance wagon will launch Music in the Mountains’ 36th season Thursday. At 11 a.m. in Boyle Park, Mancos, the wagon will unfold and reveal the festiva...

DATE: Jul 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

A senior recital to remember

On June 2, violinist Casey Reed walked into Roshong Recital Hall at Fort Lewis College, thanked the audience for coming and launched into a brilliant, 100-minute program. Music lovers would ...

DATE: Jun 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Recital series winds down

On May 20, the 14th Unitarian Universalist Recital Series came to a stellar conclusion when three Fort Lewis College faculty members joined founder and pianist Marilyn Garst for a program of...

DATE: May 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

From darkness to light

Sunday FLC Showcase introduces music faculty

DATE: Oct 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

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