Music

Santa Fe Pro Musica: The Balourdet String Quartet

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Balourdet String Quartet. Photo by Kevin W. Condon

SFPM News:

SANTA FE — The up-and-coming, award-winning Balourdet String Quartet will be replacing Cuarteto Casals—who had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances—for Santa Fe Pro Musica’s next String Works Series concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19 at St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, 87501.

The ensemble will perform  familiar favorites of the string quartet repertoire by Mozart, Stravinsky, and Brahms, as well as Memento Mori – Phase 1 (2013) by composer and sonic artist Nina C. Young.   Read More

Santa Fe Pro Musica Presents Borromeo String Quartet With Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott

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Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Photo by Matteo Trisolini

Borromeo String Quartet. Photo by Richard Bowditch

SFPM News:

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Pro Musica (SFPM) presents the Borromeo String Quartet (“simply the best”—Boston Globe), 3 p.m. March 6 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, performing quartets by  Adolphus Hailstork and Claude Debussy.

Pro Musica’s artistic director Anne-Marie McDermott will join the ensemble in performing Béla Bartók’s Quintet in C Major for Piano and Strings, Sz. 23. 

As part of Pro Musica’s Community Engagement Program, the quartet will be giving a Read More

County To Distribute Free At-Home Rapid Tests To Residents

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COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Emergency Management staff will distribute free at-home rapid antigen tests to Los Alamos and White Rock residents Tuesday in White Rock and Wednesday in Los Alamos.

Drive-through stations will be set up 1-3 p.m. as follows:

Individuals can receive up to four tests (two boxes that contain two tests each) while supplies last.

The tests were secured by the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) Read More

35th Annual Festival Flamenco Albuquerque June 11-18

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Festival Flamenco Albuquerque 35 poster created by Santa Fe artist Erin Currier. Courtesy/NIF

Flamenco News:

Every summer, the National Institute of Flamenco and the University of New Mexico host Festival Flamenco Albuquerque, bringing the finest flamenco artists in the world to Albuquerque.

This year, Flamenco Albuquerque 35 returns June 11-18.

For eight days, the city is filled with the pulse of flamenco, and is transformed into a cultural epicenter for the art form. This tradition celebrates flamenco, the incredible art form that UNESCO declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Read More

Santa Fe Opera Guild Presents Lecture On Falstaff Feb. 23

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Falstaff (1893) Hohenstein design for world premiere. Courtesy/SFO

Santa Fe Opera Guild News:

Santa Fe Opera Guild Presents a talk by Mark Tiarks Desirée Mays: “Falstaff: Portraits of a Scoundrel or of a Saint, If You Asked His Opinion”.

The talk is 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23 on zoom, with check-In 2:50 p.m. MDT.

This event is complimentary for guild members and $10 for non-members.

Shakespeare’s Falstaff has almost none of the conventional virtues, but we love him in spite of it, or perhaps because of it and his irrepressible zest for life.

Giuseppe Verdi had searched for years to find a suitable Read More

LAAC Brown Bag Performance Features Giachetti Piano Quartet Noon Wednesday Feb. 2

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LAAC Brown Bag Features Giachetti Piano Quartet Feb. 2 at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy/LAAC

LAAC News:

Always free, always entertaining … the community is invited to take a lunch break at the upcoming Los Alamos Art Council (LAAC) Brown Bag event.

LAAC announces the Giachetti Piano Quartet will perform at its next Brown Bag, noon Wednesday, Feb. 2 at Fuller Lodge.

LAAC follows all health directives and recommendations. Due to concerns regarding social distancing and health risks, performances might be canceled or moved to a virtual format with short notice.

LAAC thanks the community for Read More

NHCC Presents Robert Xavier Rodriguez’ Frida In February

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Courtesy/NHCC

NHCC News:

The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) presents Robert Xavier Rodriguez’ Frida Feb. 13, 16, 18 and 20.

Robert Xavier Rodriguez’ Frida is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Spanish with both Spanish and English translation supertitles. Presented in two acts with one intermission.

Frida is based on the life and work of the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Tickets are $21, $41, $62, $83, $103 with discounts for groups of 8 or more, anyone 30 years old or younger, and Opera for All with a WIC or EBT card.

Don’t miss a chance to see an operatic Read More

LACA: Poulenc Trio To Perform In Los Alamos Feb. 11

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Poulenc Trio performs 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11 in the Duane Smith Auditorium. Photo by Steve Parke (2021)

Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA) News:

The most active piano and wind chamber ensemble in the world, the Poulenc Trio, will perform in Los Alamos at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 11 in the Duane Smith Auditorium.

Alex Vvedenskiy (oboe), Bryan Young (bassoon) and Irina Kaplan Lande (piano) named their ensemble after French composer Francis Poulenc who wrote a witty piece for this unusual combination of instruments.

Since its founding in 2003, the trio has performed in 45 U.S. states and at music Read More

TGIF Concert Series: Harpsichordist Linda Raney Jan. 21

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First Presbyterian Church at 208 Grant Ave. in Santa Fe. Courtesy/FPC 

CONCERT News:

What: Linda Raney, harpsichord

Music:  Herbert Howells Lambert’s Clavichord 

Date: January 21, 2022

Time: 5:30 (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: 

Lambert’s Clavichord Op. 41 (HH 165):

  1. ‘Lambert’s Fireside’
    The Croft: 14 May 1926
  2. ‘Fellowes’ Delight’ 
    H. London: 13 Sept 1927
    The Rev. Edmund H. Fellows (1870-1951)
    Director of choir at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
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SF Pro Musica: Castalian String Quartet; Cuarteto Casals

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Cuarteto Casals performs Feb. 19 at  St. Francis Auditorium. Courtesy/Santa Fe Pro Musica

The Castalian String Quartet performs Feb. 13 at  St. Francis Auditorium. Courtesy/Santa Fe Pro Musica

Santa Fe Pro Musica News:

SANTA FE – Two weekends, two concerts, two world-class ensembles! Santa Fe Pro Musica continues its String Works Series in February with back-to-back concert weekends.

The Castalian String Quartet and Cuarteto Casals will perform classics of the string quartet repertoire in St. Francis Auditorium.

The Castalian String Quartet will perform works of Mozart, Janáček, and Read More