When the Trio Solisti started its Telluride Musicfest 10 years ago, its Artistic Director, the stellar Maria Bachmann, explained to us that the Trio is a unique type of ensemble. In string quartets, the whole effort is directed towards creating one integrated instrument, a “sound...
Old idea. New blood. This week, the Telluride region plays host to 30 nationally recognized artists, who will plant easels in alleys, down by the river, smack dab in the middle of Colorado Avenue, and hidden away in various other nooks and crannies of Mother Nature,...
Naming a thing helps give the senses a place to aim, but sadly, the phrase "classical music" is a tour de force of negative publicity. The words suggest something inaccessible outside pop culture. "Classical music" conjures the sounds of dead white guys, for blue hairs...
Writing about yoga instructor Erin Fleming, I feel compelled to quote Sarah Powers, from "Insight Yoga": "Yoga can best be understood as a set of behaviors that develops a holistic experience of the body, heart, and mind… A yoga practice is therefore an in-depth training in...
Program Sponsor, Wags and Menace Foundation of Denver, brings warm-hearted film to the Palm on Friday, June 29, a benefit for Second Chance Humane Society The Palm Theatre partners with the Wags and Menace Foundation of Denver and the Second Chance Humane Society to screen the...
A new painting program offering college credits takes root in Telluride this fall at the Ah Haa School For the Arts. Mature painters are invited to take their work to greater depths while focusing on personal artistic style and voice. Instructor Robert Weatherford, who is...
Waldo will be in Telluride July 1 – July 15. Join Between the Covers Bookstore in the search. Can you believe it? The world has been searching for the iconic fellow in the striped shirt and black-rimmed spectacles for 25 years. To celebrate the milestone – and...
Let's play a game of free association. I say "Ashtanga yoga." You say what? "I live for power yoga." Or "Love the workout." Or, "Can't do Ashtanga. That's for the young and for super jocks." And what would Ashtanga yoga teacher Annie Pace say? She would...
There is a certain homespun lyricism, complete authenticity and distinctly regional cast to the new body of work by painter Julee Hutchison. (See my catalog foreword for details.) If you find magic in the Telluride region, then the bottom line on the paintings is short...
Editor's note: In his doctoral dissertation, Pastor Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church is claiming the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative theology and for an earth-focused, contextual approach...
