Music

White Rock Senior Center Becoming Social Hub

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LARSO News:

With two new programs, the White Rock Senior Center is becoming a social hub.

The community is welcome to sing old and familiar tunes at 3 p.m. every Friday. Song sheets will be provided and a pianist will accompany singers.

Additionally, the center also offers a “Gals Gab Group,” which begins at 1 p.m. each Tuesday. The social club, which started in February, is geared toward women who live alone and do not get to talk much to other women.

Rides are available to the center by calling 505.662.8922.  Read More

Opera Guild Opening Night Party Early Bird Discount Available Through March 31

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OPERA News:

The Guilds of the Santa Fe Opera, Inc. present an all-guild opening night party and dinner at 5:30 p.m., July 3 at the Dapples Pavilion in the Santa Fe Opera.

The event is a fundraiser for the opera’s education and community programs department.

 An early bird discount is being offered until March 31; the cost for just the dinner is $70. Dinner and tickets to section 5 at the opera house cost $150 until March 31. Additionally, dinner plus tickets to section four in the opera house cost $205 until March 31.

The performance will be “La Fille du Regiment,” or “The Daughter of the Regiment” Read More

LASO Presents All Beethoven Concert Friday

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Violin soloist David Feldberg during Monday’s rehearsal of the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra will present an all-Beethoven concert under the direction of Albuquerque native and guest conductor, David Chavez at 7 p.m. Friday, March 13 at Crossroads Bible Church.

Admission is free but donations are gratefully accepted. The program will include three works of Beethoven: the Egmont Overture, Symphony #5, and the Concerto for Violin Read More

Board Celebrates ‘Music In Our Schools’

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Young violinists Sarah Crotzer, left, and Ashley Lestone entertain the LAPS School Board Tuesday night in honor of ‘Music In Our Schools’ month. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Members of the Los Alamos Middle School string quartet received a ‘superior’ at the state competition, as did the duo and the trio pictured above and below. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Los Alamos Middle School trio performs ‘Galactic Odyssey.’ Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Fourteen members of the Los Alamos High
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Classical Music World: The Show Must Go On

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Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Courtesy photo
 
Classical Music World
By ANN MCLAUGHLIN
 
The Show Must Go On

Most working people have occasionally called in sick. Or arrived at the office late after car trouble. No big deal. But for performing artists, the deal is very big indeed. That the show must go on is their mantra, their creed. 

Considering our nearly 70-year history, the Los Alamos Concert Association has dealt with remarkably few situations where an artist could not appear as advertised. We are dealing with one of those rare occasions right now.

Daniel Binelli, the bandoneón Read More

Santa Fe Pro Musica Presents ‘Baroque Holy Week’

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Deborah Domanski

SFPM News:

SANTA FE – Santa Fe Pro Musica’s beloved Baroque Holy Week concerts return this April, featuring the Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble performing works inspired by the secular and the divine in the historic Loretto Chapel.

Vocalists Kathryn Mueller and Deborah Domanski will join the Ensemble for the final piece on the program, Pergolesi’s transcendent Stabat Mater.

Kathryn Mueller

There will be three performances:

  • 7:30 p.m. April 2;
  • 7:30 p.m. April 3; and
  • 6 p.m. April 4.

Tickets $20, $35, $45, $65 at the Santa Fe Pro Musica Box Office 505.988.4640, Tickets Santa Read More

‘A Night Of Hindustani Music’ March 7

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Devotional singers Mark and Terra Choplin. Courtesy photo
 
 UCLA News:
 
The Unitarian Church of Los Alamos (UCLA) presents “A Night of Hindustani Music and Traditional Indian Storytelling” with Mark and Terra Choplin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7.
 
Mark and Terra Choplin are devotional singers, trained in India, who specialize in traditional Indian story-telling, and classical Indian instrumental, or Hindustani music. They will be presenting the ancient story of the Hindu holiday Holi; the story of the boy, Prahlada, in a way of telling called
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