Music

Jan McDonald Plays for LAHS Marching Band Fundraising Dinner

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Los Alamos High School Marching Band. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

BAND BOOSTER News:

Nationally recognized trumpeter Jan McDonald will join Los Alamos High School Marching Band Boosters for a fundraiser Italian dinner Wednesday, Nov. 7 at Trinity on the Hill Church’s Kelly Hall.

The fundraiser will benefit the LAHS Marching Band.

“Jan McDonald continues to support the Topper Band, which he directed for almost 30 years,” event organizer Karen Mehlin said. “We are so excited that he will play for this event.”

McDonald received his BA and MA degrees Read More

Clark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview: Nov. 2

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This week’s preview is sponsored by www.fyila.com

The Los Alamos Daily Post will provide live election coverage Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Get out the Vote Event – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall and U.S. Senate Candidate Martin Heinrich 2-3 p.m. Friday, Nov 2 at Los Alamos Democratic Party Campaign Headquarters, 140 Central Park Square. Questions, call 661-9002

Varisty Football @ Sullivan Field 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2 vs. Capital High School 

Dive-in Movie – Madagascar 3 7–8:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2 @ Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center.  Enjoy a movie while floating in the main pool. Doors Open at Read More

Nov. 7 Brown Bag Performance Features Local Students

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LAAC News:

The Los Alamos Arts Council’s Brown Bag Performances are always free, always entertaining, take a lunch break at the Brown Bag Performance series in Fuller Lodge.

Presenting a wide range of programs, from Beethoven to ballet, opera to jazz, chamber music to bagpipes, these concerts have been entertaining Los Alamos music lovers on their midday breaks since 1973.

Brown Bag Performances connect performers to the community.

Performances are held at noon, usually on the first Wednesday of each month but dates may vary.

For the noon, Nov. 7 Brown Bag, LAAC presents Local Students Read More

Sopahn Kellogg Wins Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico Northeast I District Competition

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Sopahn Kellogg is the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico vocal winner in Northeast I District competition.

Next, she will compete at the PMTNM State Conference Nov. 3 in Santa Fe with an Italian aria and a Schubert lied.

She is in 10th grade at Los Alamos High School. Her teacher and accompanist is Juanita Madland. Courtesy photo Read More

Making the Arts Accessible to People with Dementia

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LIBRARY News:

Meet Me at Mesa – Making the Arts Accessible to People with Dementia

As director of the Betty Ehart Senior Center and as a music therapist, Pauline Schneider sees both the difficulties dementia sufferers and their caregivers face daily and also how music and the arts can help people connect and enjoy the arts’ beauty and energizing effects.

“I have worked with people in all phases of dementia and even  those who seem to have stopped relating to the world around them  remarkably respond to music. One person, who hadn’t spoken for quite some time, began to sing along Read More

Hope, Struggle and Change Comes to Los Alamos

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LADP News:

Roy Zimmerman has driven 25,000 miles this year, fulfilling a “campaign promise” to perform his satirical songs in all 50 states.

He brings his live show, “Roy Zimmerman: Hope, Struggle and Change” to Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30 for a performance at the Los Alamos Little Theater, 1670 Nectar St.

Admission is $18. Tickets are on sale at Democratic Party Office,140 Central Park Square. Call 661-9002 or visit the office noon to 8 p.m. every day.

“Hope, Struggle and Change” is a 90-minute juggernaut of funny songs and comic commentary on presidential politics, the Occupy Movement, Read More

Clark & Kendall’s Weekend Preview: Oct. 18

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This week’s preview is sponsored by www.fyila.com

 

Pasion de Tango at Los Alamos Little Theatre
7:30 p.m. Thursday Oct. 18
 
Olions Perform Musical Comedy Murders of 1940’s
8 p.m. Oct. 19, 20, 26 and 27 with 2 p.m. matinee Saturday, Oct. 20.
All five performances are in the new Black Box – third floor of new LAHS building.
 
Fuller Lodge Art Center Arts & Crafts Fair
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road

Rotary Flower Bulb Sale 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 20, Crossroads Bible Church

SKI SWAP  1-4 p.m. Saturday Oct. 20
The sale Read More

Tour the World With the Los Alamos Community Winds Saturday

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Courtesy/LACW

By Bonnie J. Gordon

The Los Alamos Community Winds will open their concert season with “A World of Music” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20 at White Rock Baptist Church.

“This is a typical Winds concert in that we are performing a variety of music,” Winds Artistic Director Ted Vives said. “We started looking at people’s suggestions for music and I saw that there was a wide variety of locations around the world represented. The theme grew out of that realization.”

The concert theme is particularly appropriate because this performance by the Los Alamos Community Winds is part of the 11th Annual Read More

Council Recognizes Los Alamos Community Winds for National Accomplishment

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Los Alamos County Councilor Vincent Chiravalle, on behalf of the Council, recognizes the Los Alamos Community Winds for their recent second place award in the American Prize Competition, accepted by flutist Carolynn Scherer during this evening’s County Council meeting at Fire Station 3 in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Community Winds flutist Carolynn Scherer and saxophonist Jonah Katz listen as Council recognizes the organization for their recent second place award in the American Prize Competition during this evening’s meeting at Fire Read More

LAHS Marching Band Color Guard Awarded Outstanding Auxiliary

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Los Alamos High School Marching Band Color Guard received the award for Outstanding Auxiliary at the Valencia Classic last weekend.
Back row from left, Coach Kim Kissane, Rebecca Flavin, Gabby Conley-Lopez, Annie Romero, Kyanna Martinez, Kim Pestovich and Coach Edwin Parker. Front row from left, Angelique Castillo and Amanda Milligan. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

Los Alamos High School Marching Band Color Guard earned the Outstanding Auxiliary Award Saturday at the Second Annual Valencia Classic in Los Lunas. Band director Zane Meek said Monday that the award is a testament to the “number Read More