Choir for the Memory Impaired

Jane Stump There are 70 choirs for the memory impaired all over the world. Vista de la Montana Methodist Church, 3002 E. Miravista Lane, Tucson, near Catalina, will be number 71! Hoping to clarify misperceptions on the part of our culture regarding those whose short-term memory is compromised as well as increase the quality of life of the memory impaired and…

61st Tubac Festival of Arts planned for February 5-9

Candy Vermillion The historic Tubac Festival of Arts will be on Feb. 5-9, 2020 in the Village of Tubac, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come and enjoy fine arts and crafts, eateries, music, and horse-drawn trolleys. Admission is free. Southern Arizona’s longest running arts festival, the Tubac Festival of the Arts, is a 61-year…

Messiah Sing-Along at SaddleBrooke Ranch

Voices in the Oaks Chorale performed one of two Messiah sing-along concerts at SaddleBrooke Ranch Sol Ballroom on Dec. 20, 2019. With talented University of AZ graduate students Donte Ford conducting and Hsin-Chih Chang on piano, the 24-voice chorus led the audience through Handel’s Messiah part 1 and the Hallelujah Chorus. Audience members showed great enthusiasm and…

SASO Opening Concert Feb. 15-16

Punch Howarth The Feb. 15-16 concerts by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra will perform two divergent works of Ludwig van Beethoven and an unusual opus by Richard Strauss. Opening the concert will be a frivolous short work, Turkish March, featuring the Turkish instruments, triangle, cymbals, and bass drum. The Marcia alla Turca is one of ten selections…

High Desert Gardening Classes Start February 26

Ellen Sosin Back by popular demand, the Master Gardeners will be offering the six-week class, High Desert Gardening. This will be presented in the MountainView Ballroom at the MountainView Clubhouse, SaddleBrooke, on Wednesday afternoons starting Feb. 26, 2020. Each session will last two hours, and registration is required. This course is designed to help residents…