Music

Be Surrounded by Sound at Holiday Prism Concert

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Community Winds Musical and Artistic Director Ted Vives at Tuesday’s Holiday Prism Concert rehearsal. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Winds saxaphone and bassoon players rehearse for the upcoming Holiday Prism Concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Community Winds will present its third annual Holiday Prism Concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at White Rock Baptist Church. The idea of a prism concert, presenting continuous music in the round, began at the Eastman School of Music about 40 years ago, Winds Read More

Santa Fe Pro Musica Presents ‘The Brandenburg Concertos’

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Santa Fe Pro Musica performing at the St Francis Auditorium. Courtesy photo

SFPM News:

Santa Fe Pro Musica presents all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos featuring the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra and Soloists at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29 at St. Francis Auditorium inside the New Mexico Museum of Art (107 W. Palace Ave. in Santa Fe.)Thomas O’Connor conducts.

Tickets are $20, $35, $45 and $65 at the Santa Fe Pro Musica Box Office (505) 988-4640, ext. 1000, Tickets are also available at The Lensic (505) 988-1234, or online at www.santafepromusica.com Read More

Full Day of Activities at Fuller Lodge Open House

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Fuller Lodge in Winter. Photo by TK Thompson
 
LAAC News:

The annual Fuller Lodge Open House is Saturday, Dec. 7. The Los Alamos Arts Council, along with the Art Center at Fuller Lodge and the Historical Society, will kick off the holiday season at the Lodge, Los Alamos’ best known historic building and its cultural and artistic center. 

Fuller Lodge is decorated for the holidays. Come by and enjoy the holiday spirit and all of the festivities planned for the Open House.

This year, the festivities begin with the Chamisa SingSations at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m., a musical group will be playing Read More

Topper Choral Presents Winter Concert

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Students rehearse for the upcoming Topper Choral Winter Concert. Courtesy photo

LAPS News:

The public is invited to a free Topper Choral Concert. The concert begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 at Duane Smith Auditorium. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and holiday treats will be available for sale.

The Topper Choral consists of all the Los Alamos High School and Los Alamos Middle School choir classes.

More than 50 student performers competed and qualified for District Honor Choirs and were challenged to an intensive multi-day training and a superb performance in October with elite music directors. Read More

LASO Holiday Concert Gives Gift of Music to the Community

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LASO’s youngest and oldest members are violinists Michele Yant and Ernie Bryant. They reheared for the LASO Holiday Concert in the Los Alamos High School Band Room Monday night. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

First Chair Violins Marion Pack and Brian Newnam. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

LASO News:

In what has become a popular tradition in Los Alamos, the musicians of the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra will present their annual Holiday Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 at Crossroads Bible Church on East Road.

Under the baton of Don Gerheart, the full symphony will

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Schwarzkopf and Schepps Perform Dec. 4 Brown Bag

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Alexander Schwarzkop. Courtesy/LAAC

LAAC News:

The Los Alamos Arts Council presents Alexander Schwarzkopf with David Schepps in concert for the noontime Dec. 4 Brown Bag performance at Fuller Lodge. All Brown Bag concerts are free and open to the public.

Currently, Dr. Schwarzkopf is on the piano faculty at the University of New Mexico, where he recently performed a recital of music by Beethoven and Shostakovich for cello and piano with David Schepps and a solo recital and lecture on Steinbach’s “Figures: 17 Choreographic Etudes for Piano,” the latter at the invitation of the composer.  Selections Read More

Classical Music World: The Special Joys of Live Performance

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Want to see a great live performance? Cellist Joshua Roman will be in concert in Los Alamos Jan. 24. Photo by Tina Su
 
Classical Music World: The Special Joys of Live Performance
Column by ANN MCLAUGHLIN

I don’t listen to recorded music very often. That probably comes as a surprise to people who know that I’m the artistic director of the Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA).

I certainly listen to CDs as part of my work with LACA. I do listen to the radio and sometimes to a CD in the car, but I hardly ever put on a CD at home just for, I guess, fun.

This is, in part, because I can’t multi-task where music Read More