Music

Fifth Annual UNM-LA Music Marathon Feb. 8

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The Craig Martin Experience will perform at the 5th Annual UNM-LA Music Marathon. Courtesy/CME

UNM-LA News:

With just over 30 volunteer performers scheduled, the 5th Annual UNM-LA Music Marathon will take place 2-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, in the Student Center on the UNM-LA campus.

Historically, the UNM-LA Music Marathon has raised more than $4,600, featuring as many as 60 performers, and attracting 800 audience members. The event is co-chaired by UNM-LA adjunct music instructor Juanita Madland and Rheta Moazzami, with the intent of funding UNM-LA scholarships.

“In our first year we raised Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Tone, Pitch, Note & Timbre

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By RICHARD HANNEMANN
Los Alamos

In music, there are four fundamental terms you need to know and understand including tone, pitch, note and timbre.

TONE: A musical sound, which repeats at regular intervals, higher or lower.

PITCH: The placement of a tone, high or low, within the range of tones and relative to, high or low, other and all of those tones.

NOTE: The symbolic representation of a given tone, at a specified pitch, with specified time duration.

TIMBRE: The quality and/or character of a note (the sound of a sound).

These four terms are often confused with one another and often thought Read More

Former Los Alamos Musician James Carothers Signs Worldwide Booking Agreement

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James Carothers. Courtesy/www.jamescarothers.com

COMMUNITY News:

NASHVILLE – Country newcomer James Carothers, formerly of Los Alamos, has signed an exclusive worldwide booking agreement with Nashville-based Third Coast Talent.

The deal comes just prior to Carothers’ performance from the DRX Artist Showcase stage at 3rd and Lindsley, at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Hosted by singer/songwriter and SiriusXM “Prime Country” personality Deborah Allen, the event will stream live HERE; Facebook fans can learn more at FB Events. 

Carothers honed his chops Read More

Classical Music World: How Do They Do That?

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By ANN MCLAUGHLIN
LACA Artistic Director
 
After Red Priest’s phenomenal performance on the Los Alamos Concert Association series last week, several people asked me the same question: How did the ensemble transport a harpsichord all the way from Great Britain?

The answer: They didn’t. We rented an instrument for them to use. That sounds simple enough but the reality makes for quite a story. 

Harpsichords are notoriously finicky instruments. They don’t take kindly to being moved about or to temperature and humidity changes. They need to be tuned by a skilled technician before

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NMSA Jazz Ensemble Performs Jan. 17

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NMSA Jazz Ensemble. Courtesy/NMSA

NMSA News:

The New Mexico School for the Arts Jazz Ensemble will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, in the Large Rehearsal Hall at the NMSA campus at the corner of East Alameda and Paseo de Peralta.

The NMSA Jazz Ensemble is comprised of 16 music and voice students under the direction of John Trentacosta and Bert Dalton. The concert is free and open to the public; donations accepted at the door.

Students will perform compositions by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Horace Silver, Mongo Santamaria, Ivan Lins, Nat Adderly, Sonny Rollins, and a vocal Read More

Classical Music World: Viva Baroque!

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Red Priest. Courtesy photo
 
Classical Music World
By ANN MCLAUGHLIN

Have you noticed the posters around town advertising the Los Alamos Concert Association’s next event featuring Red Priest? Maybe you assumed that the rock star poses, leather pants, and crazy hair mean they will be playing something other than classical music. Look again! You will see a recorder, a violin, a cello and a harpsichord. Not an electric guitar or amp in sight.

This flamboyant ensemble from the UK has taken the vibrant artistic spirit of the 17th  and early 18th centuries very much to heart. Below are the

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Hannemann’s Music Corner: The Language of Music

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By RICHARD HANNEMANN
Los Alamos
 
Music is a language. As such it has structure, context, idiom. As with verbal language it has phrases, subject-predicate relations, sentences, independent clauses, dependent clauses — it can even be said to have passive and active verbs, adverbs, nouns. In verbal language we spell words — in music we spell chords.
 
Music as language can be written or aural — you can read it, you can write it, you can “speak” it with an instrument, you can hear it. Most importantly you can think in it and communicate
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Brown Bag Series Presents Music & Theater Jan. 7

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LAAC News:

Los Alamos Art Council’s Brown Bag Performance Series presents a scene from Los Alamos Little Theater’s “Murdered to Death” at noon Wednesday, Jan.7 in the Pajarito Room of Fuller Lodge.

The play is directed by Patrick Webb and produced by Laurie Tomlinson. The play opens Jan. 16.

“Murdered to Death” is Peter Gordon’s hilarious spoof of the best Agatha Christie traditions, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight: Bunting the butler, an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip, a shady French art dealer and his moll, bumbling local Read More

LACA Presents Red Priest Jan. 9

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Red Priest. Courtesy/LACA

LACA News:

Britain’s flamboyant Baroque ensemble, Red Priest, will perform Antonio Vivaldi’s iconic work, The Four Seasons at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9 in the Duane Smith Auditorium. Presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association, the concert also will feature works by Bach, Telemann and others in a program called “Viva Baroque!”

Red Priest, renowned for bringing a theatrical sensibility to Baroque repertoire, takes its name from Vivaldi, known in his time as The Red Priest because he was, in fact, a priest with bright red hair. In an interview on National Public Radio, Read More