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Tuesdays At The Pond Entertainment Series Begins June 6 With The Bus Tapes At 7 p.m. At Ashley Pond Park

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Tuesdays at the Pond Entertainment Series kicks off the season Tuesday night with The Bus Tapes at 7 p.m. at Ashley Pond Park. Courtesy photo

LA CREATIVE DISTRICT News:

The Tuesdays at the Pond Entertainment Series kicks off the season Tuesday night with The Bus Tapes. Brought to you by the Los Alamos Creative District, the concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Ashley Pond Park stage.

Two time New Mexico Music Award winners, husband and wife duo Case and Heather Tanner, bring together a range of talented musicians for fun and interactive shows, taking audiences by the hand and leading them Read More

Classical Music World: Notes From Cliburn 5

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South Korean Yekwan Sunwoo impressed with a beautiful performance of Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6 in the Cliburn semi-final round. Courtesy photo

Canadian Tony Yike Yang, 18, is the youngest Cliburn competitor. Courtesy photo

Italian competitor Leonardo Pierdomenico acknowledges a standing ovation after his performance with the Fort Worth Symphony under the direction of Nicholas McGehan. Courtesy photo

 
By ANN MCLAUGHLIN
LACA Artistic Director

The audience during the Cliburn Competition has been admirably silent. We have all been made repeatedly aware that the performances are Read More

Classical Music World: Notes From Cliburn 4

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Bass Performance Hall Dome: Cliburn competitors’ view of the Bass Performance Hall when they take the stage. Courtesy photo

Bass Performance Hall exterior: Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth. Courtesy photo

 

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN
Musical Director
Los Alamos Concert Association

The Cliburn Competition is blessed with a beautiful venue, the Bass Performance Hall. We had a chance to see the hall from the competitor’s point of view during a tour Saturday morning. 

Built in 1998, the hall is modeled along classic European opera house lines, a somewhat unusual design decision Read More

Scenes From Friday’s Summer Concert

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The Coral Creek Band performs at the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Friday night at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Young dancers. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Houdini’s serves up popcorn. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Summer Concert crowd Friday evening. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Young ladies follow a path in Ashley Pond. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
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Lensic Presents 2017/2018 Season

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LENSIC News: 

 

SANTA FE—Lensic Executive Director Joel Aalberts has announced the lineup for the 2017/2018 season of the nonprofit performing arts center’s Lensic Presents original programming series.

 

The season kicks off Aug. 26 with a concert from bluegrass/country legend Ricky Skaggs and his longtime band, Kentucky Thunder, and continues through May 3, 2018, with a diverse and exciting lineup of music, theater, dance and family events.

 

“We have stars of Latin, jazz, bluegrass, folk, and classical music, plus live theater, two cutting-edge Read More

Classical Music World: Notes From Cliburn 3

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A native of the San Francisco Bay area, Daniel Hsu, one of the youngest competitors at age 19, studies at the Curtis Institute. Courtesy photo 
 

South Korean competitor Dasol Kim, 28, studies at the Hochshule fur Musik in Hanover, Germany. Courtesy photo 
 

By Ann McLaughlin
Artistic Director
Los Alamos Concert Association

The penultimate round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is finally under way. Twelve semi-finalists will each play a 60-minute recital and a Mozart concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony.

Last night 19-year-old Daniel Hsu, one of Read More

Classical Music World: Notes From Cliburn 2

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Los Alamos Concert Association Artistic Director Ann McLaughlin reports on the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth. Courtesy Photo

By Ann McLaughlin
Artistic Director
Los Alamos Concert Association
 

Downtown Fort Worth is all gussied up for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Banners line the streets. The Cliburn logo is everywhere. Even the crosswalks in front of the Bass Concert Hall are painted to look like keyboards. For a city that is famous for its stockyards, these Texans sure take their music seriously!

We arrived here Thursday morning Read More

Choral Creek Band Plays Ashley Pond 7 p.m. Today!

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The Choral Creek Band performs at 7 p.m. today at  Ashley Pond Park. Courtesy/Elliot Siff Photography
 
By RUSS GORDON
Concert promoter

The Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series presents the excellent Colorado Front Rage group, The Choral Creek Band today, June 2 at Ashley Pond Park. The show starts at 7 p.m. and is free. The weather calls for a clear and nice night. We’re calling for rock and roll!

The Choral Creek Band play high energy shows of bluegrass, newgrass, country-rock, blues, jazz, jamband and unique renditions of traditional and Americana classics. Check them out on Read More

Candyman ‘Micro Store’ Opens In Los Alamos

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Nick Hudson, left, and owner Rand Cook offer all manner of musical goodies to customers at The Candyman’s micro store in the Portage Building on DP Road. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com 
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Candyman has been serving the Santa Fe music community for 48 years. Now Candyman has come to Los Alamos in the form of what Candyman’s owner Rand Cook calls a “micro store,” at 200 DP Road in the Portage Building. The store is open 3-6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The phone number is 505.983-5906. The staff also can be available Read More

Classical Music World: Notes From Cliburn 1

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Van Cliburn in 1959, the only classical musician to be honored with a ticker tape parade in New York. Courtesy photo

By Ann McLaughlin
Artistic Director
Los Alamos Concert Association

It happens every four years. Competitors vie for medals as fans cheer. Paparazzi swarm about. It isn’t the Olympics. It’s the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition! The competition is underway right now and I will be reporting to you from Fort Worth every day.

The story of the competition’s birth is legendary and begins in Moscow.  

In 1958, at the height of the cold war, the Soviet Union wanted to showcase Read More