Telluride is the beneficiary of a full program of holiday concerts sponsored by The Sheridan Arts Foundation. The Sheridan Opera House will be the venue to hear Citizen Cope on December 30, 2010, 8:00-10:00 p.m. Citizen Cope last performed in Telluride during the 2009...
The Ah Haa School for the Arts would like to thank the community and those art lovers out there for another wonderful year of support and inspiration. We feel blessed to be a part of a community that places a high value on the...
kicker: Great Room alive once again with the sound of music. Palmyra deck too.
For years, The Peaks was a showcase for Telluride, even regional talent, its Great Room a great place to listen to great music and socialize with friends. Then for awhile the music stopped. And the crowds that gathered in support and appreciation stopped coming. But they are returning now in droves to a vastly new and improved Peaks, with a management team eager to support the cultural life in Telluride and Mountain Village.
Case in point: Monday, December 20, the Telluride Choral Society performed a program of traditional carols and holiday songs for the family. The Choral Society was followed by Richard Tavener's Lodges Lane Live doing smooth jazz and Mike Pale on acoustic guitar playing popular favorites. New Year's Eve day, DJ Ryan spins on The Palmyra Deck, 2:30 – 6 p.m., where he has been appeared on and off in late December. New Year's Eve the Jeff Solon Trio entertains.
About 10 days ago, Telluride Inside...
Telluride's Michael D. Palm Theatre hosts the Flying Karamazov Brothers December 27 and 28, 7:00 p.m. both nights.
Telluride local and friend Jeff Hauser called last week, hair on fire: the Flying Karamazov Brothers are skilled and screwy and not to be missed.
The New York Times agrees. In a review this past February, a critic wrote:
Nutcraker Tanka by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Sometimes I’m like the four-year-oldgirl in the silvery snowflake costumewho stands in the lights at the edge of the stagenot remembering to plie, nor to turn, nor to raise both arms,who remembers only to wave to you. (ed....
kicker: Final interview of series on Christmas Eve. Merry holiday.
Telluride Inside... and Out continues with its mini-series about Christmas, interviewing Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Church on the subject of the holiday that's becoming a hot potato, from its name to its meaning.
Despite the beliefs about Christ that relate to the birth stories – although, as Pat pointed out earlier, the earliest writings of the New Testament are the letters of Paul, and Paul seems to have no knowledge of a virgin birth – the church did not observe a festival for the celebration of Christmas until the 4th century, a date chosen to counter the pagan festivities connected with the winter solstice. In fact, the birth of Christ coincides with Saturnalia, a pagan winter solstice ritual. Solstice marks the sun's descent into darkness, heralding the start of winter. Days later, the sun starts ascending in the heavens again, where it resides for another year. In its simplest expression, Christmas is about light, whether it is the natural light of the sun that nourishes from without or the metaphorical Holy Light – or holy light – that nourishes and heals from within. Ot is it?
Trimming by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is...
In his first post/interview Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride's Christ Presbyterian Church talked about the myth and magic of Christmas. In the second of his three-part series parsing the holiday, the focus is on the "war" on Christmas, which has a lot to do with the different perceptions Bailey addressed in his first interview.
The news last week was chockablock with scary, seemingly insurmountable challenges to our country, one of which hit Tulsa hard: Could its Christmas parade be saved despite protests against the disappearance of the word "Christmas" from its title. (The name had been changed to The Holiday of Lights parade, which outraged the righteous state senator, James Imhofe for one.) The good news: the parade would go on, albeit without Imhofe on his high horse – at least not the carrot-chomping version.
Missed Harry and Rapunzel at the Nugget Theatre in Telluride last week? Well, here's another chance. "Tangled" (PG) shows twice each day (once on Friday, 12/24) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (PG13) once each evening.
See below for showtimes and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
