Music

LIVE!: Jesús Muñoz Flamenco’s New Production Brings 12 Internationally Renowned Artists To NHCC

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Jesús Muñoz Flamenco. Courtesy/NHCC
 
NHCC News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― The National Hispanic Cultural Center and Jesús Muñoz Flamenco present the new production, Live!, at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 26 and Saturday, Feb. 27, in the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Albuquerque Journal Theatre.
 
Tickets are $25, $40, $50, $60 and $75, with a $5 discount for students, seniors, and children 12 and under, and are available from the NHCC Box Office at 505.724.4771 or here.
 
Live! showcases the artistry of 12 internationally
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Letter To The Editor: Music Teachers Give Thanks

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By LAPS MUSIC TEAM
Los Alamos
 
Have you ever enjoyed listening to the marching band at a parade and watching the drumline cadence by?
 
Maybe you’ve been to a football game and seen the marching band sousaphones or the xylophones entertaining the crowd? Or perhaps you’ve been to an elementary music performance and seen your child or grandchild singing from the risers? Possibly your child is a cellist and is able to use a cello at school – eliminating the need to haul one from home.
 
All of these musical supplies – drums, sousaphones, xylophones, cellos,
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LACS And LASO Present Brahms Concert Jan. 23

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By CHARMIAN SCHALLER
Los Alamos

When the Los Alamos Choral Society and the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra present Johannes Brahms’ Requiem on Saturday, their performance will be the culmination of hundreds of hours of practice.

Approximately 45 singers and 43 orchestra members will be part of the performance. Those singing have been learningthe 95-page work since early September, practicing together for two hours every Tuesday night. In the two weeks before the concert, they participated in several two-hour rehearsals with the orchestra, which had been practicing the complex music since Read More

Medieval To Metal: Art & Evolution Of Guitar Feb. 5

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ART News:
 
SANTA FE — Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art with a free public reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5.
 
The exhibition examines the craftsmanship, design, and history of this popular musical instrument.
 
Medieval to Metal is a companion exhibition to two others opening the same evening at the New Mexico Museum of Art, First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare and Stage, Setting, Mood: Theatricality in the Visual Arts. Together, these three
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Watoto Children’s Choir Performs At Crossroads Bible Church 6:30 p.m. Thursday

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COMMUNITY News:

The Watoto Children’s Choir traveling from Africa is thrilled to present a brand new choir production entitled “Oh What Love” at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road in Los Alamos.

The group’s tour began in Norway in September of 2015 and traveled around Scandinavia for three months, before arriving in Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 6, where they began a four month tour visiting several states throughout the West Costal region of the U.S.

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Chanticleer Performs In Los Alamos Jan. 24

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Chanticleer in performance at the Abbaye aue Dames Saintes. Courtesy/Festival of Saintes

 

LACA News:

Chanticleer, “the reigning gods of the men’s chorus world” (Washington Post), will perform in Los Alamos at 4 p.m., Jan. 24 in the Duane Smith Auditorium.

Presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association as part of its 70th Anniversary celebration, the Grammy-winning ensemble is touring with a program spanning five centuries of vocal music called “Over the Moon”.

Founded in 1978 and named for the “clear-singing rooster” in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer is admired world-wide Read More

6th Annual Music Marathon Raises Money For UNM-LA Scholarships 2-8 p.m. Jan. 31

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The Craig Martin Experience joins the band lineup at the Music Marathon Jan. 31 at UNM-LA. Courtesy photo

By MANDY MARKSTEINER

Music lovers can spend the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 31 listening to local musicians while raising scholarship funds for students attending the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos. The 6th Annual Music Marathon runs 2-8 p.m., in the UNM-LA student center, in building 2.

Pianist Cindy Little, left, and violinist Kay Newnam. Courtesy photo

The band lineup includes The Craig Martin Experience, The Pajarito String Band, Higher Ground, The Double A Trio and the Brave New Read More

Celebrate Carnaval 2016 At NHCC Feb. 5-6

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Frank and Pilar Leto and the NHCC continue their annual celebration of Carnaval Feb. 5-6 in Albuquerque. Courtesy/NHCC
 
NHCC News:
 
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is partnering with Frank and Pilar Leto to present the Center’s annual celebration of Carnaval with “Carnaval 2016: Ticket to Paradise” at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6 in the NHCC’s Albuquerque Journal Theatre.
 
Tickets are $17, $22, and $27, with a $2 discount for students, seniors, and NHCC members, and are available from the
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