Chris Clark

Taos School Of Music Announces 54th Season

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Courtesy/TSM
 
TSM News:
 
Executive Director of Taos School of Music Kathleen Anderson has announced the faculty for the upcoming 2016 season:
 
  • Borromeo String Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music;
  • Miro Quartet based in Austin, Texas; and
  • Brentano String Quartet, now engaged as Quartet in Residence at Yale School of Music.
 
Summer faculty will perform at Taos Community Auditorium in July and August. 
 
“We are exceedingly proud of our faculty, who regularly perform at venues such as Carnegie Hall and receive rave reviews
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Ye Olde Pumpkin Patch Is Open For Business

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Los Alamos High School Choirs October Pumpkin Patch at 4th Street and Central Avenue. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Los Alamos High School Choirs October Pumpkin Patch at 4th Street and Central Avenue. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
LAHS News:
 
The 2015 Los Alamos High School Choirs October Pumpkin Patch at 4th Street and Central Avenue runs through Oct. 31.
 
HOURS: 
M, Tu, Th, F – 3:30-6 p.m.
Wed – 12:30-6 p.m.
Sat & Sun – 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Columbus Day 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m 
 
LOCATION:
Canyon
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Letter To The Editor: High Tea On The Hill Sunday

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By ONNOLEE ENGLERT-ERICKSON, ZOE HEMEZ, EMILY HOPKINS
Los Alamos United Way Youth Team
 
My name is Emily Hopkins, one of the Los Alamos United Way Youth Team co-chairs for 2015.
 
As you probably know, the United Way Youth Team of Los Alamos has been doing some great things for the community this semester, and is halfway through their campaign!
 
In case you did not know, United Way is a nonprofit organization that contributes to the Community Action Fund and helps to support local organizations that benefit our community.
 
We have two final events for this season, and we are
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NMSA Hosts Tribute Concert For Mara Robinson

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NMSA News:
 
SANTA FE ― New Mexico School for the Arts will celebrate one of its long-time supporters, Mara Robinson, with an evening of Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, honoring Mara for her unending contributions to the music program at NMSA, as well as music education in Santa Fe and throughout the Southwest.
 
Robinson and her late husband Charles were long-time patrons of the arts, arts education, and the well-being of children and youth in New Mexico. In January 2014, they were memorialized as “Living New Mexico Treasures” by the New Mexico House of Representatives.
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Letter To The Editor: Wrong To Say Weather Extremes Occur Due To Climate Change

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By TOM HARRIS, Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition
Canada
 
It is wrong to say that “weather extremes occur due to climate change.”

This is one of the few areas of agreement between the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

In 2012, the IPCC asserted that a relationship between global warming and wildfires, rainfall, storms, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events has not been demonstrated.

In 2013 the NIPCC concluded the same saying, “in no

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Sunday’s Piano Recital With Gabriella Herczeg

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A crowd of people gathered at Fuller Lodge Sunday to listen to Gabriella Herczeg perform works by Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin. Herczeg will perform this program again for the recital that is part of her master’s degree program at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Herczeg received her bachelors’ degree from UNM and is also a 2007 graduate from Los Alamos High School. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
 
UNM graduate student Gabriella Herczeg performs at Fuller Lodge Sunday. Herczeg said ‘it’s really nice’ to come back and perform in her hometown.
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Luján Signs Discharge Petition To Force Vote On Job-Creating Export-Import Bank

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U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján
 
CONGRESSIONAL News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District joined in an effort to force a vote on the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. 
 
Luján signed a discharge petition that would require an up or down vote on legislation to reauthorize the bank once a majority of the House, 218 members, sign on to the petition. 
 
The bank’s charter expired at the end of June after House Republican leaders refused to allow a vote on reauthorization. After 80 years of supporting U.S. jobs by financing
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Two Museums, Two Parties, One Night Of Fun Oct. 30

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Big Swing Theory performs Oct. 30 in the St. Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe. Courtesy/NMMA
 
NMMA News:
 
SANTA FE — Grab the kids, don a costume and head to the Santa Fe Plaza for a progressive Halloween party 5-8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 30, at the Museum of Art and New Mexico History Museum.
 
There will be music, treasure hunts, ghost stories, tarot cards and more. And it’s all free, with full access to all of our exhibitions.
 
The details:
 
The Museum of Art invites you to celebrate the Fall of Modernism with Halloween Modernist-style. Come
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