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A rare tribute to a rare musician: Cellist Lynn Harrell dies and Carnegie Hall marks his passage

Acclaimed American cellist Lynn Harrell died on April 27. His sudden death was not associated with the coronavirus. The news sent shock waves throughout the world of international music. ...

DATE: May 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

San Juan Symphony: 34 years and counting

Orchestra opens with three interrelated ‘Classical’ works

DATE: Sep 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Living

Young musicians show what they’re made of in San Juan Symphony Youth Orchestra

Groups will play to perform in Bayfield and Durango

DATE: Nov 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Choral Society celebrates holiday with traditional program

The winning request in Linda Mack Berven’s rolling City Market poll is the song “O Holy Night.” “People stop me in the aisle,” Mack Berven said. “People literally stop me all year...

DATE: Nov 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

FLC launches recital program with chamber music

At 3 p.m. Sunday in Roshong Recital Hall at Fort Lewis College, a program of chamber music will be performed by three faculty members plus one. Titled “Piano Quartets of the Maste...

DATE: Sep 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

A musical prelude from out of the 416 Fire’s ashes

Gordon Thomas brings together music and photography to commemorate firefighters

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Music in the Mountains offers two preludes, Mozart and Mussorgsky

“Right now, I couldn’t be happier,” Dallas composer David Sterrett said during intermission on opening night, July 13, at Music in the Mountains. His new composition, “Brighter Than the Flam...

DATE: Jul 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Santa Fe Opera offers ‘best of all possible worlds’

Opera highlights ‘Candide,’ ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Dr. Atomic’

DATE: Jul 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Living

Silverton launches innovative play festival

Honoring a colleague with creative collaboration

DATE: Jun 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

On Saturday morning, the Met will spin a satirical tale

Massenet’s ‘Cendrillon’ is all French all the time

DATE: Apr 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Living

FLC showcases student performers at an honors recital on Feb. 25

At the annual honors recital Feb. 25 at Fort Lewis College, 11 music students will perform works by Mozart and Beethoven, Poulenc and Faure, and others. “This is my favorite stud...

DATE: Feb 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Durango Arts Center shows early Englehart works

Stanton Englehart often described Gaia, the ancient Greek earth mother, as “the real driver of our lives.” Englehart, who died April 22, 2009, was a child of the Southwest, an...

DATE: Feb 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Living