The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango is excited to announce its eighteenth season with the 2025-2026 Recital Series.

Do you enjoy jazz, wind instruments, and/or voice? If so, this season will feature programs in all of these musical genres.

Dates:
Friday, September 12, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Friday, April 24, 2026

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 435 San Juan Drive, Durango, 81301

Price:
Single concert – adult $25, children and students $8 
Entire series ticket – adults, $65, children and students $30

We look forward to seeing you at the concerts.

Click here to buy tickets online for the entire series.

To buy tickets by check, please print the attached form and fill it out.

Checks can be made payable to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango (or UUFD) with “Recital Series” on the memo line and mailed to the church.

UUFD
435 San Juan Drive
Durango, CO 81301

RECITAL SERIES 2025-2026

Friday, September 12, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Helen Goode, clarinet
Carolyn Beck, bassoon
Cynthia Williams, piano

Program:

• Hollywood inspired chamber music
• Three trios by Bill Conliffe, Nino Rota, and Andre Previn
• Viktors Tale for clarinet and piano by John Williams
•  Cafe from Casablanca for bassoon and piano by Charles Fernandez
• Uncle Bebop for clarinet and bassoon by Gernot Wolfgang

Click here to buy tickets online for the September 12 Recital.

Friday, November 7, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Civic Winds Jazz Collective
Jared Wright, trumpet
Michelle Wagner, tenor saxophone
Chad MacCluskey, bass
Jack Maines, piano
Clay Lowder, drum kit

Program:

•  Classics from the Great American Songbook
•  Contemporary arrangements of standards
•  Works from the 21st century

Click here to buy tickets online for the November 7 Recital.

Friday, April 24, 2026, 7:00 p.m.

Michael Hix, baritone
Marilyn Mangold Garst, piano

Program:

• Concert arias by Mozart
• German lieder by Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms
• Let Us Garlands Bring (cycle of 5 songs) by Gerald Finzi
• Piano arrangements of Gershwin songs
• Musical theatre selections by Bernstein and Rodgers & Hammerstein

Click here to buy tickets online for the April 24 Recital.

Support the Recital Series

If you would like to further support this recital series, please consider a tax-deductible gift.  Any amount will be greatly appreciated and will enable us to continue this series at UUFD. There are two ways to give:

1. Send a check made payable to UUFD.  Include “Recital Series Support” in the memo line and mail to: UUFD, 435 San Juan Drive, Durango, CO 81301. Please include a note letting us know how you’d like to be listed in the program.

2. Click the “donate” button below. If you would like to be credited as a supporter in the program, please send an email to Marilyn at mmgarst1940@gmail.com letting her know how you’d like to be listed.

GIVING LEVELS

Friend: $10-49
Contributor: $50-99
Sponsor: $100-249
Donor: $250-499
Patron: $500 or more