Music

Classical Music World: Pale Blue Dot

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The Dover Quartet performs in Los Alamos March 11 at Smith Auditorium. Courtesy photo
 

The Pale Blue Dot: This iconic image was taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from a distance of almost 4 billion miles from Earth. The dot can be seen about halfway down the orange stripe on the right. Courtesy/NASA

 

By ANN MCLAUGHLIN, Artistic Director
Los Alamos Concert Association

There are plenty of classical works inspired by or associated with heavenly bodies. Debussy’s ever-popular, Clair de Lune comes to mind as does Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Gustav Holst’s The Planets, is a staple Read More

Dover Quartet To Perform In Los Alamos

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Dover Quartet will perform March 11 in the Smith Auditorium. Courtesy photo

 

LACA News:

 

The much admired Dover Quartet will perform in the Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Friday, March 11 as part of the Los Alamos Concert Association’s 70th Anniversary Season.

 

Since a triumphant sweep at the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2013, the Dover has won acclaim world-wide. The New Yorker dubbed them “the young American string quartet of the moment.” James Keller of the Santa Fe New Mexican described the young ensemble as “string quartet Nirvana.”  Read More

Lions In Illyria: Shakespearian Hijinks In Animal Guise

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From left, Rose Corrigan, Jim Jenkins , and Patrick Webb  perform in Friday night’s opening of Robert Kauzlaric’s play, ‘Lions in Illyria’ at the Los Alamos Little Theatre. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Robert Kauzlaric’s play, “Lions in Illyria,” opened Friday night at the Los Alamos Little Theatre. The play is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” with animal characters.

The play is aimed at children and is best suited for ages 7-12. Younger children will not understand the complicated plot and

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LAHS Choirs Preview Concert Smith Auditorium Tuesday

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Image by Leslie Bucklin

 

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

The best way to be successful is practice, practice, practice and Los Alamos High School Choir Director Jason Rutledge and his bevy of beautiful voices will perform for the community Tuesday, March 1, as they prepare for additional great things ahead.

“This concert is our preview concert for our Music Performance Assessment that occurs the following day,” Rutledge said. “It will involve the Los Alamos Middle School Choir and four choirs from Los Alamos High School; Man Time, Harmony, Bel Canto and Schola Cantorum.”

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Music Group Manic Drive Plays Los Alamos March 5

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Pop/rock band Manic Drive, touring from Canada via Wisconsin, Texas and on to California, will be in Los Alamos March 5. Listen to KRSN for an artist interview next week.
 
Local organizer, Infinity Squared Music (Phil Jacobson), continues to bring internationally acclaimed talent to Northern New Mexico – more than three years running now. A pre-show tailgate party will start at 4 p.m., with doors opening 6:30 p.m., at White Rock Baptist Church. Show starts promptly at 7 p.m. All ages welcome.
 
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Coro De Cámara Presents ‘New York Nuance’

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MUSIC News:

Coro de Cámara’s energetic concert, “New York Nuance,” features music by notable New York composers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, and Thomas “Fats” Waller. Excerpts from West Side Story are the centerpiece of the program, along with other well-known works, such as “Make Our Garden Grow” from Bernstein’s Candide, “The Promise of Living” from Copland’s The Tender Land, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” by Ellington, and several selections from Ain’t Misbehavin’ by Waller. 

Back by popular demand, guest trio—Joe Cox, piano; Howard Read More

LAHS Freshman, Presley Gao, Wins Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Piano Concerto Competition

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Steinway Artist Jacquelyn Helin with her student Presley Gao who won The Music Guild of New Mexico’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition Feb. 13 at the Keller Hall at UNM. Courtesy photo

MUSIC News:

Presley Gao, 13, won The Music Guild of New Mexico’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition Feb. 13 at the Keller Hall at UNM.

Gao played the first movement of the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, accompanied by his teacher, Steinway Artist Jacquelyn Helin, on the second piano.

As the first place winner, Gao received a cash award of $2,000 plus several Read More

Scenes From LAMS Jazz Band Tour Of Schools

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The Los Alamos Middle School Jazz Band, here at Mountain Elementary School, toured all five local elementary schools Thursday performing for students and staff. The musicians performed music that they have prepared for adjudication today at the Albuquerque Jazz Festival. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Scene from LAMS Jazz Band performing Thursday at Mountain Elementary School. The band also toured all five local elementary schools. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Scene from LAMS Jazz Band performing Thursday at Mountain Elementary School. The band also
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Los Alamos Arts Council’s Brown Bag Show Features En Saga Players March 2

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En Saga Players including Kay Newnam, violin; Brian Newnam, viola; Joseph Fasel, clarinet; Laura Taylor, flute; James Knudson, cello; Regina Doorn, contrabass; and violinists Michelle Yang and Grace Kim. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
Los Alamos Arts Council’s March 2 Brown Bag show will showcase the En Saga Players as well as two works by Wolfgang Mozart and Jean Sibelius.

The performance will begin at noon at the United Church of Los Alamos. The usual venue, Fuller Lodge, is being renovated.

En Saga Players is made up of local

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