Music

Los Alamos Student Wins National Award At 2017 Junior Theater Festival West In Sacramento

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The students who traveled to the iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival West on behalf of Atomic City Children’s Theater are Isabella Bailey, Mikaela Brown, Savannah Brown, Verona Brown, Taylor Kanzleiter, Yuneso Kim, Kate McDonald, Aliana Montoya, Ean Nickols and Elise Ovaska. Courtesy/James Barker Photography

ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater student Ean Nickols won a Freddie G Excellent Individual Performance by a Male award at the 2017 iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival West, which happened Feb. 10-12 in Sacramento, Calif.

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Santa Fe Pro Musica Presents Calidore String Quartet

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Calidore String Quartet. Courtesy photo

MUSIC News:

Santa Fe Pro Musica continues its 35th season with a concert featuring the Calidore String Quartet performing Mozart’s soulful String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421, a new work by the Pulitzer Prize winning American composer Caroline Shaw, and concluding with Dvořák’s beloved “American” quartet, the String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96. The Calidore String Quartet will also provide a free masterclass for area musicians and music lovers.

The concert is 3 p.m. Sunday, March 5 at the St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 West Palace Read More

Obituary: Rosalie Diane (Liebschultz) Heller

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ROSALIE DIANE (LIEBSCHULTZ) HELLER
March 20, 1931-Dec. 2, 2016

Rosalie Diane (Liebschutz) Heller, was born March 20, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, the second child of Martin and Faye (Bernstein) Liebschutz. She learned to read at a very early age and was an avid reader, having once told her mother that she wanted to read “until her conscience broke”. Her mother became her first piano teacher when Rosalie was just four years old.

What happened at age five became a life changing experience, which she recently described in these words: ”I was just a small girl playing in my room when I heard my older brother Read More

Shomaker: The Story Of My Violin

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Violin painted by Dianna Shomaker. Courtesy photo
 
By DIANNA SHOMAKER
Los Alamos

Violins, and the music they make, have been in my genes since youth. I struggled with learning to play and make it sound beautiful. My fingers ached from practice and in the end I decided I was more of an appreciater than a performer. And that continues today.

I deeply appreciate the feelings and memories from violin music and performers I have heard in my lifetime. There were professional classical performers in great concert halls, and there were jazzy, wonderful, toe-tapping fiddle players at Barn Dances. Read More

Garth Brooks World Tour Hits Las Cruces April 8

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Garth Brooks is set to appear in concert April 8 in Las Cruces at the Pan American Center. Courtesy photo

CONCERT News:

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 21 years, The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood is coming to Las Cruces. The tour is presented by Amazon Music Unlimited. The concert is 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8 at Pan American Center. This will be the only New Mexico appearance on the tour.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. EST Friday, Feb. 17 with an eight ticket limit per purchase. Tickets can only be purchased at ticketmaster.com/garthbrooks or ticketmaster.com or either Ticketmaster Read More

Fancy Fiddle Fundraiser For LAPS Orchestra Feb. 18

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Fancy Fiddle Auction Feb. 18 at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy image
 
COMMUNITY News:
 
Dozens of fancifully decorated string instruments will be auctioned at a special event at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 18 in Fuller Lodge.
 
The Fancy Fiddle Auction, a benefit for the orchestra program in the Los Alamos Public Schools, is the brainchild of a group of volunteers and artists who wanted to save the instruments from being destroyed. 
 
All the instruments were owned by the Los Alamos Public Schools and had been loaned or rented to students in decades past. They were
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California Guitar Trio & Montreal Guitar Trio Feb. 12

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MUSIC News:
 
SANTA FE — The Lensic presents the California Guitar Trio and the Montreal Guitar Trio, together on stage at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12.

The California Guitar Trio and Montreal Guitar Trio fuse more than 40 years of combined performing experience into a phenomenal six-by-six-string ensemble. California Guitar Trio’s steel-stringed guitars blend beautifully with Montreal Guitar Trio’s nylon-stringed guitars as each trio chases the other through original compositions and new arrangements of progressive rock, world, jazz, and classical music.

 
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The Harmaleighs Play Los Alamos Feb. 19

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The Harmaleighs. Courtesy/Facebook.com
 
MUSIC News:
 
The Harmaleighs will perform in Los Alamos Sunday, Feb. 19 at Fuller Lodge.  The Americana duo hails from Nashville, Tenn., and is hard at work on their much-anticipated second album. Their current single, “I Keep Ticking On” continues to garner more fans and has more than a million plays on Spotify. 
 
Doors open for The Harmaleighs at 6 p.m., and the band takes the stage at 7 p.m. Light meals will be available 6-7 p.m., and beer and wine are available throughout
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