Music
Los Alamos Opera Guild Presents Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Concert June 30 at Fuller Lodge
BBQ, Chili, Swinging Country Music June 22
Lightnin’ Malcolm Plays the Pond For Los Alamos Daily Post Night
Lightnin Malcom and drummer Stud. Courtesy photo
By Russ Gordon
Delta Blues great Lightnin’ Malcolm will perform at 7 p.m. tonight at Ashley Pond for the second annual Los Alamos Daily Post Night at the Los Alamos County Summer Concert.
Don’t worry about the fences. In spite of construction at the Pond, the show will go on. There’s plenty of room in the grassy area on the west side of the Pond, the site of the former Municipal Building.
Delta Blues goes back to the origins of the blues. Lightnin’ Malcolm, one of the future greats, is a man who understands, respects and loves the genre. Malcolm has been Read More
Rumelia and Folk Dancers Bring Balkans to Pyramid Cafe Saturday
Rumelia at the Pyramid Cafe in Los Alamos May 13. Photo by David Griggs
Los Alamos folk dancers at the May 13 Rumelia show at the Pyramid Cafe. Photo by David GriggsStaff Report
Rumelia is returning to the Pyramid Café, 751 Central Park Square, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 15.
The band has an enthusiastic local following, including Los Alamos folk dancers, who add their talents to the evening. There is a $10 cover and children are free.
Rumelia is a band composed of three women who are putting a new spin on music from Eastern Europe, a region generally known as the Balkans.
Rumelia’s repertoire Read More
‘Downtown Friday Nights’ Infuses Culture & Fun in Los Alamos This Summer
COUNTY News:
Visitors and newcomers to Los Alamos – one of the top 10 “Best Small Towns to Visit in 2013” (Smithsonian Magazine, March 2013) will get to enjoy a number of special cultural, historical and educational events with “Downtown Friday Nights,” every other Friday on June 14, June 28, July 12 and July 26.
Downtown Friday Nights is sponsored by the Los Alamos Creative District in coordination with local businesses and cultural organizations.
“Downtown Friday Nights are a great kick-off to programming in the Creative District – our version of an Arts and Culture District in Los Alamos,” Read More
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Lessons Learned in Fort Worth
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano CompetitionBy ANN MCLAUGHLIN
Lessons Learned in Fort Worth
The fine folks at the Los Alamos Daily Post have let me chew up a lot of digital space over the past 10 days writing about an event in (gasp!) Texas. I have been known to grouse about our local media covering off-the-hill arts events at the expense of local efforts. So what’s going on here? What does the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition have to do with us?
The most obvious answer is, of course, that the Los Alamos Concert Association will be presenting one of the three Cliburn medalists Read More
Hannemann’s Music Corner: Get Ready for Session Work
Hannemann’s Music Corner: Get Ready for Session WorkBy RICHARD HANNEMANN
Here’s an option for work in the music profession is session and studio work.
Did you know that New Mexico is the fourth largest producer of films? That means when you feel confident enough, you can see about getting some studio work in Albuquerque.
The job requirements are:
- Be able to play anything and everything. Bach to Beatles – classical (all forms), country (all forms), jazz (all forms), folk (all forms), blues (all forms) — everything (all forms). This means practice playing everything.
- Be able
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Three Magnificent Performers
Posts Live from Van Cliburn International Piano CompetitionBy ANN MCLAUGHLIN
Three Magnificent Performers
Hello from high in the Texas sky.
On day three of the Cliburn Competition finals, Russia’s Nikita Mndoyants surprised the audience with two original cadenzas in his performance of Mozart’s Concerto No. 20. On day four, Ukrainian Vadym Kholodenko went him one better by performing a cadenza that he composed during his nine-hour flight to Fort Worth. (I’m usually satisfied if I manage to finish the in-flight crossword and get a good nap.) His performance of one of Mozart’s happiest concertos Read More
Student Community Band Meeting Tonight
Band News:
College and high school-aged music students, are you home for the summer and looking for somewhere to play some music?
Are you a Topper Band alumni looking to reconnect with your Los Alamos High School Topper Band friends?
There is an organizational meeting of the Student Community Band at 6:30 p.m., Monday at Trinity on The Hill Episcopal Church to kick this project off so that the band can play and march in the 4th of July parade that will be held in Los Alamos.
It’s a flexible group with the intent that it will be fun, with a little bit of marching up and down Central Avenue to Read More