Brian Eyster from Planet Bluegrass sent us the preliminary lineup for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, 2010. The usual suspects will be in attendance, plus some names that are just now getting recognition. Among the latter is a group that entertained us at the Sheridan Opera House earlier this month (and had the joint jumping): Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
Telluride's Rock and Roll Academy holds its 6th annual Winter Rock Concert at the Sheridan Opera House on Saturday, December 12, 2009. The extravaganza showcases nine bands featuring 43 student musicians ages 7 – 18, including 13 girls, from the public school, the Mountain School, Norwood and Ophir.
"Nutcracker" at Telluride's Palm Theatre, December 12 & 13
Scrooge may complain of a whopper of a toothache from all that sugar, but for the rest of us sentimental saps, "The Nutcracker" remains as much a part of Christmas as evergreens and eggnog. The ballet's enduring appeal stems from the fact this coming-of-age story speaks to the child in us all.
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride is showing "2012" the week of December 11-17.
What are your plans for 2013? Oh, you didn't make any? Just as well, as this movie posits the end of the world in 2012. Buildings, bridges, monuments: all fall down. There is plenty of selfishness involved- who gets on the lifeboat? Anyway, it should be entertaining. (Rated PG-13)
The Telluride Film Festival presents "A Serious Man" (Rated R) on Thursday evening, December 17. For showtimes, see below. See the Nugget website for reviews and trailers.
In the early 1870s, miners first came to the Telluride region in search of silver and gold, but the settlement wasn't called "Telluride." It was named Columbia. But Columbia's post office application was turned down on the grounds a town in California with the same name beat the settlers to the punch. The U.S. Postmaster General resolved the problem in 1880: we got our post office, but it came with a new name:"Telluride."
"Telluride"might have been derived from "tellurium," an element often associated with gold seams. Was the moniker just a crass marketing ploy to lure prospectors to the region? Some subscribe to the idea "Telluride" was code among outlaws. Was the name simple contraction of the phrase "to hell you ride," because way back when Telluride was wild and wooly.
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer More than these greens tossed with toasted pecans, I want to serve you the hymn I sung into the wooden bowlas I blended the oil and white vinegar. More than honey ice cream beside the warm pie, I want to serve...
Sally Strand is one of a number of high profile pastel artists in the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art's stable, which also includes Bruce Gomez, Doug Dawson, Carole Katchen, Deborah Bays, Albert Handell, and Ramon Kelly.
For two years running, the man who is arguably America's greatest living composer of classical music was artist-in-residence for the Telluride Musicfest. During that time Philip Glass was pretty busy doing what he does. He performed all over the world, wrote two new operas and several more film scores. One of the classical pieces Glass agreed to write at the time was commissioned through the Meet the Composer program by Martin Murray as a special birthday gift for his wife, Lucy Miller Murray. Mrs. Murray was celebrating her 70th birthday and 27 years as the founding director of Market Square Concerts. Glass's "Sonata for Violin and Piano," premiered in Harrisburg, PA, in February and got raves. Maria Bachmann of the Trio Solisti, artistic director of the Telluride Musicfest, was the violinist. Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the historic Sheridan Opera House, where the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Young People's Theater presents "The Wizard of Oz," this weekend, December 4 – December 6, 6 p.m. nightly.
Director Jen Julia's Telluride production is based on the classic MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz," and features 33 locals, grades 6 – 8.
