Music

TCMG: American String Quartet Performs In Taos June 2-3

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Taos Center for the Arts and the Taos Chamber Music Group present the American String Quartet at the Taos Community Auditorium June 2-3. Courtesy/TCMG

TCMG News:

Taos Center for the Arts partners with Taos Chamber Music Group (TCMG) to present the American String Quartet at the Taos Community Auditorium 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 2 and Friday, June 3 as part of the  TCMG Season 29. 

The ASQ will perform two different shows. The first (June 2) features Beethoven’s String Quartets Opus 74 (“Harp”) and Opus 131 in a belated 250th birthday tribute that TCMG had originally scheduled with the Americans Read More

Aspen Student Earns Nacha Mendez Music Scholarship

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Nacha Mendez Music Scholarship recipient Elena Roybal with her orchestra teacher Michelle Rosette. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

Aspen Elementary School 6th grader Elena Roybal has been awarded a Nacha Mendez Music Scholarship. She will receive a first-place level scholarship in the younger girl category in the amount of $2,000. The NMMS Awards Ceremony will be held May 9 at SITE Santa Fe.

“Music runs deep in my blood,” Roybal said. “I really want to get better at playing the violin. I want to learn and play more challenging music. I hope I can continue participating in the orchestra in middle school Read More

TGIF Concert Series: Pianist David Solem May 20

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CONCERT News:

What: David Solem, piano

Music: Nikolai Kapustin 

Date: May 20, 2022

Time: 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:15 p.m.)

Where: First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501

Admission: Freewill offering and open to all

For More Information call 982.8544 

Program: 

  • Eight Concert Studies, opus 40 (1984) – Nikolai Kapustin (1937 – 2020)
  • Prelude
  • Reverie
  • Toccatina
  • Reminiscence
  • Raillery
  • Pastoral
  • Intermezzo
  • Finale

A Note about Kapustin: Nikolai Kapustin was a Ukrainian composer and pianist. He played with many Soviet jazz bands in his career and his compositional Read More

LARSO Kicks Off Older Americans Month With LAHS Jazz Band Concert Friday Night May 6

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Come let the cool, golden melodious tones of Hilltopper Jazz set your mood this Friday night at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. Courtesy/LARSO 

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
LARSO

While it is not over, we appear to have some semblance of a graduated return to a graduated normal-ish.

May is Older Americans Month and the local senior centers will celebrate throughout the month. It kicks off with a community concert, brought to us by the Los Alamos Hilltopper Jazz Band, after award winning teacher, Ryan Finn made the offer.

There will be indoor and outdoor seating 6-8 p.m. this Friday Read More

TGIF Concert Series: Baritone Rick Beaubien & Pianist Natasha Stanjovska May 27

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CONCERT News:

What: Rick Beaubien, baritone & Natasha Stanjovska, piano

Music: American Art Songs

Date: May 27, 2022

Time: 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:15 p.m.)

Where: First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501

Admission: Freewill offering and open to all

For More Information call 982.8544 

Program: 

  • American Songs, American Poems
  • Musical settings of well-known American poems
  • Rick Beaubien, baritone; Natasha Stojanovska, piano

Program:

(Note: All printed texts are the versions set by the composer, which sometimes differ from the originals.)

  1. “Serenity” (1919)
    Charles
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Summer Fun Is Heading To Los Alamos!

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Los Alamos Creative District will resume its Tuesdays at the Pond series May 31. The shows are held 5:30-8 p.m. every Tuesday at Ashley Pond Park through Aug. 2. Courtesy/LACD

Los Alamos Creative District News:

The Los Alamos Creative District has announced the 2022 schedule for the Tuesdays at the Pond summer entertainment series, sponsored by Zia Credit Union.

This year all performances will be live and in-person at Ashley Pond Park stage, 5:30-8 p.m. each Tuesday May 31 through Aug 2, with the exception of July 5 due to the holiday weekend.

This is a free series, and no tickets are required. More Read More

TGIF Concert Series: Gioiso Piano Quintet May 13

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CONCERT News:

What: Gioiso Piano Quintet

Music: Shostakovich 

Date: May 13, 2022

Time: 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:15)

Where: First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501

Admission: Freewill offering and open to all

For More Information call 982.8544 

Program: 

Dimitri Shostakovich (b: 9/25/1906, d: 8/9/1975) completed this quintet in September, 1940 while still in Russia.

He wrote the piece intending to play the piano part himself, performing it in Leningrad and Moscow with the Glazunov and Beethoven string quartet ensembles. Shostakovich once joked to a friend that he only Read More

Wonders On Wheels Mobile Museum To Bring ‘İMúsica Buena! Celebrating Music in New Mexico!’ Exhibit For Cowboy Cookout May 7

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Wonders on Wheels Traveling Museum. Courtesy photo

NMDCA News:

SANTA FE — The village of Magdalena will come together for an afternoon of merriment, down home music, and museum fun in support of its library starting at  noon Saturday, May 7. 

Visitors can enjoy a world of music inside Wonders on Wheels (WoW) – the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (NMDCA) 38-foot RV that brings New Mexico music from Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art to the state’s communities. Step inside WoW and touch actual instruments and costumes from the museum’s “İMúsica Buena! Celebrating Music in New Read More

TGIF Concert Series: Conductor & Organist Bryan Dunnewald May 6

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CONCERT News:

Conductor and Organist Bryan Dunnewald  will perform music by J. S. Bach and Louis Vierne at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:15 p.m.) Friday, May 6 at First Presbyterian Church at 208 Grant Ave. in Santa Fe.

The concert is open to all and the cost is a freewill offering. For More Information call 982.8544.

Program: 

–Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582; Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
–Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 28; Louis Vierne I. Allegro maestoso (1870-1937) IV. Adagio V. Final 

First Presbyterian offers weekly recitals 5:30-6p.m. Fridays. These concerts are free and open Read More