Music

Serenata Of Santa Fe: Help Us Keep Chamber Music Alive

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By PAMELA EPPLE
Artistic Director
Serenata of Santa Fe

Friends and Supporters, Serenata of Santa Fe has been impacted greatly by the COVID-19 pandemic.

We recognize the need for a sense of place and community more than ever and know that our musicians and audience crave connection, beauty, healing and hope.

Serenata’s Musical Postcard Project was conceived for this purpose, and it is our mission to keep chamber music alive, whether it’s a live-streamed solo performance from one of our living rooms or recorded concerts from last season.

We’ve worked hard on our new website so you can view Read More

Los Alamos Favorite Max Gomez Performs Holiday Concert Virtually With Friends From Los Angeles Saturday Night

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Los Alamos favorite Max Gomez will be doing his holiday concert virtually this year and invites his friends in Los Alamos to join him. Gomez, who has played a holiday show in Fuller Lodge each of the past three years, will be performing from Los Angeles and will be joined by a number of accomplished singer/songwriters, including Leslie Stevens who won many fans here when she played last year. Also performing will be Taos’s Michael Hearne, Michael Martin Murphy, Los Angeles based Shawn Mullins and Jed Zimmerman. The show will stream on YouTube and Facebook beginning at 6 p.m. Mountain Time Saturday,
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Virtual Christmas Tuba Concert Lifting Spirits In Los Alamos

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For 20 years local musicians have performed a free Christmas concert. Due to the pandemic, this year’s concert is virtual. For all you low-brass fans, watch the Christmas Tubas concert, which is lifting spirits all over Los Alamos and available here. ‘We hope to be back live in 2021. Merry Christmas everyone!’ Courtesy screenshot
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Los Alamos Pianist John Kang Is New Mexico’s Division Finalist In MTNA Junior Artist Competition

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John Kang, of Los Alamos is New Mexico’s Division Finalist in the MTNA Junior Piano Artist Competition. Courtesy/MTNA

MTNA News:

John Kang, of Los Alamos, has been selected to compete as a Division Finalist in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Junior Artist Piano Competition.

He earned this opportunity by first winning the Junior Artist Division of the MTNA Statewide competition and will now advance to compete among five other winners from their respective states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah.

The Division Winner will be announced in mid-January. The Winner Read More

Coro de Cámara Brings ‘Tidings Of Joy’ Performance Dec. 22

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Angels made by David Alvarez, photographed by Blair Clark. Image used by permission of Susan Topp Weber, of Susan’s Christmas Shop. All rights reserved.

By ANNE MARSH
Coro de Cámara

Fresh from the success of November’s “Amuse-Oreilles (Amusement for the Ears)”, the chamber singers of Coro de Cámara offer a holiday gift to the community with their second virtual performance, “Tidings of Joy from Our Homes to Yours”.

This free mini-concert (donations gratefully accepted) will premiere at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22, and be available thereafter through a link on the Coro website at corodecamara-nm.org Read More

2020 Holiday Prism Concert On YouTube 2 P.M. Saturday

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COMMUNITY News:

Los Alamos Community Winds (LACW) presents its annual Holiday Prism Concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the concert will be performed on YouTube.

The concert includes a series of performances by members from the community:

  • The Los Alamos Flute Choir;
  • The Covid Clarinets;
  • The SaxAtomix; and
  • The LACW Brass.

The concert also includes individual solo performances:

  • Flautists Heidi Morning and Tracey Speyrer; and
  • LACW director/trombonist Ted Vives all accompanied by pianist Julian Chen.
The concert will be free for viewing, but LACW would request
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LAAC Features SaxAtomix In Brown Bag Show Noon Today!

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SaxAtomix, from left: Bryan Fearey, Sadie Barry, Paul Lewis, Joyce Guzik and Adolfo Meana. Courtesy/LAAC

LAAC News:

The Los Alamos Arts Council features the SaxAtomix at noon today during the virtual Brown Bag show.

To hear the SaxAtomix, visit https://losalamosartscouncil.org/ or go the Los Alamos Arts Council’s Facebook page.

The SaxAtomis will perform a variety of popular tunes such as the theme from “The Pink Panther,” “Beale Street Blues,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “My Funny Valentine”. As an encore, they will play a holiday jazz tune.

According to the program, the SaxAtomic began in Read More

Maestro Figueroa Conducts Virtual Holiday Concert Dec. 13

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Joel Becktell, Assistant Principal Cello. Courtesy photo

The Santa Fe Symphony performing its fall 2020 virtual concert series. Courtesy/SFS

SFS News:

The Santa Fe Symphony’s (SFS) first four performances presented in its fall 2020 virtual concert series have reached thousands of viewers from around the world since its inaugural virtual concert, Canyon Echoes, Oct. 11—filmed on the majestic 21,000 acres of Ghost Ranch.

Christmas Treasures, the fifth and final concert in its fall 2020 virtual series premieres at 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 13. This brilliant program, beautifully filmed by Hutton Read More

SFCC Presents ‘Compart-Mentally Undefined’ Live-Streaming Electronic Music Performance Tuesday Dec. 8

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SFCC News:

SANTA FE — For more than a decade, Santa Fe Community College students in the Intro to Reason and Live class have left the classroom behind to take the best final ever – performing their music for a live audience. This semester continues that tradition, but in an entirely new venue. The music event of the year is coming to your quarantine the only way that’s legal!

Join the free streaming performance, “Compart-Mentally Undefined,” at 7 p.m., Tues., Dec. 8, 2020, on Twitch. Students in the Intro to Reason and Live class show off their musical and performance achievements and express how Read More