Concert promoter Russ Gordon. File photo
COMMUNITY News:
Tune in to The Voice of Los Alamos at noon today on 101.5 FM to hear Bonnie Gordon of the Los Alamos Daily Post interview longtime Los Alamos concert promoter Russ Gordon.
Gordon details his band lineup including the blues and rock band “Slick” Nick Schnebelen from Kansas City, which plays at 7 p.m. today at Ashley Pond Park. Read More
Courtesy photoThe HillStrummers Ukulele group will hold “The Doug Lier Memorial Day Singalong” of patriotic songs at 11 a.m. today on the Smith’s Marketplace Terrace (or the “Produce ” Lobby, weather dependent).
The community is invited to join us in this unique Memorial Day Weekend event. Song sheets will be available.
MUSIC News:
Nora Scott, graduating with the 2016 senior class of Los Alamos High School, will perform a voice recital at 1 p.m. Friday at Fuller Lodge.
Scott was a member of Los Alamos High School premier choir Schola Cantorum that has performed at the Lincoln Center and throughout Europe. She also has taken voice lessons from Alicia Solomon for the past two years.
ACCT News:
Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), Los Alamos Public Schools’ award winning after-school musical theater program announced their events and shows for the 2016-17 season.
ACCT Summer Workshops
ACCT’s jam-packed season begins in August with the return of their popular ACCT Summer Workshops. The Summer Workshops are 9-11 a.m., Aug. 1-5 in two locations at the high school. The Dance, Acting and Music workshops are in the Topper Theater Monday-Wednesday. The workshops will then move to Smith Auditorium Thursday-Friday for the Stagecraft/Prop and Makeup workshops. Read More
The Rotary – Deborah Beene Music Award Competition winners. from left, Theodore Warner, Irene Kwon, Jamie Philp, Grace Kim and Brian Johnson. Photo by Ed Van Eeckhout
COMMUNITY News:
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos recently held auditions for the annual Deborah Beene Music Award competition.
The award was established in the memory of Deborah Beene, daughter of Donald and Sara Beene, a violin and piano student who died while enrolled in school here in December 1973.
The award is intended to assist 9th-12th grade Los Alamos High School students in their musical growth. The students Read More
Courtesy imageThe Los Alamos Community Winds will take the audience on an interplanetary adventure at tonight’s concert. The centerpiece of the concert is Gustav Holst’s “The Planets, Op 39 (1918).
The work is based on astrology, rather than astronomy.
A short book by Alan Leo called “What is a Horoscope?” suggested to Holst the possibilities for musically interpreting the influences of each planet. In later years, he stressed that the suite was not intended to be programmatic, and that each movement simply suggested the traits ascribed to the Read More
Scene from a previous kite building workshop. File photoLos Alamos Arts Council’s (LAAC) Kite Festival launches this weekend. The festival is a 19-year tradition, which showcases expert flyers who perform dizzy aerial acrobatic moves with sophisticatedly constructed kites as well as simple, hand-made paper kites piloted enthusiastically by young children.
A kite flyer gets creative during a previous kite building workshop. File photo
Los Alamos High School Olion Devon Mccleskey wins Best Actor at this evening’s Popejoy Awards in Albuquerque. Photo by Ryn Herrmann
LAHS drama teacher David Daniel dedicated his Best Director win to Rachel Saxton, the previous LAHS drama teacher. Best Actor winner Devon Mccleskey moves on to the Jimmy Awards (high school Tony’s) on Broadway in New York. Photo by Ryn Herrmann
LAHS Drama teacher David Daniel wins Best Director at this evening’s Popejoy Awards. Photo by Ryn Herrmann
Josh Vigil and Lauren Partin win Directors Choice Choir. Photo by Ryn Herrmann
Staff Read More
Music critic and former Los Alamos Public Schools orchestra teacher, Mary Helen F. Klare, right, does a selfie with Patricia Racette, who plays Minnie, the golden girl, in Puccini’s La Fanciulla Del West that opens the Santa Fe Opera season July 1. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.comBy ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post
“Three hundred years of opera, five new productions, three new to Santa Fe, including a world premiere, and two beloved works returning to our stage.”
That in a nutshell is the repertoire for the 2017 season announced by Santa Fe Opera General Director Charles MacKay Read More
