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Santa Fe Opera Seeks 20 New Volunteer Docents To Lead Backstage Tours During 2024 Festival Season

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A view from backstage at the Santa Fe Opera. Photo by Sullivan Peraino/Santa Fe Opera

Santa Fe Opera News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Opera is seeking 20 new volunteer Docents to conduct Backstage Tours during the 2024 Festival Season.

This is the first time in three years that new Docents have been admitted to the program. New Docent training will be conducted at the Santa Fe Opera over seven days in late April and early May.

Training centers on in-depth information about the Santa Fe Opera’s history, production facilities, and designs for the five 2024 Season productions including La traviata (Verdi),  Read More

Santa Fe Pro Musica Presents ‘Brentano Quartet–Chiaroscuro’ In St. Francis Auditorium Feb. 11, 2024

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Brentano Quartet members from left, Mark Steinberg, violin; Serena Canin, violin; Misha Amory, viola and Nina Lee, cello. Photo by Jürgen Frank

Pro Musica News:

SANTA FE—Pro Musica’s celebrated String Quartet Series continues this February with the “Passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding” Brentano Quartet (London Independent). In their program “Chiaroscuro”—referring to an artistic technique that uses contrasting light and shadow to create volume and depth—Shostakovich’s intensely personal String Quartet No. 8, dedicated to the victims of fascism and war, sits in high Read More

Los Alamos Choral Society Begins Winter Season Jan. 9

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Los Alamos Choral Society begins its 2024 Winter season Jan. 9. Interested singers should arrive around 6:30 p.m. to sign in and pay dues. Rehearsal runs 7-9 p.m. in United Church Sanctuary at 2525 Canyon Road. No audition required. Courtesy photo

By WENDY SWANSON
Los Alamos Choral Society

Los Alamos Choral Society invites all interested singers to join us for our 2024 Winter season! We are a talented amateur choral group that has been singing in Los Alamos since November 1943.

We encourage anyone, regardless of age or musical background, to join our choral society in the challenge and thrill Read More

Delirium Musicum To Perform In Los Alamos

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Delirium Musicum will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12 at the Duane Smith Auditorium. Courtesy/LACA

LACA News:

An exciting young chamber orchestra, Delirium Musicum, will perform in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 12, presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA).

Recently awarded three Audience Choice Awards by San Francisco Classical Voice, the self-directed ensemble will offer fresh interpretations of old masters juxtaposed with adventuresome new repertoire.

The program features new takes on two beloved Baroque masterpieces, Summer from Max Richter’s wildly popular  Read More

‘Discovering The Music Of Bach’ – Three Related Programs

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Conductor and educator Oliver Prezant. Photo by Jerri Foster

The Santa Fe Opera News:

The Santa Fe Opera presents “Discovering the Music of Bach” performances in Santa Fe and Albuquerque with conductor and educator Oliver Prezant and violinist Stephen Redfield, and “Bach’s Violin” – a free youth and family concert in Albuquerque.

The community is invited to join Prezant and Redfield for this in-depth look at selections from J.S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo.

During the program, Prezant will lead an interactive exploration of the music, as we look at how Bach weaves single line Read More

Violinist Philippe Quint Performs Jan. 14 At The Lensic

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Hailed by NPR as ‘classical music’s superstar’, multiple Grammy® Award-nominated violinist Philippe Quint joins The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra on the Lensic stage for this critically acclaimed multimedia program featuring orchestral works from the iconic actor, composer, and musical legend Charlie Chaplin and his most celebrated films. Watch the traler here. Courtesy/SFSO Read More

Winter Caroling With Lasses And Lads Of Enchantment & Santa Fe Harmonizers Friday Jan. 26 And Saturday Jan. 27

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Chorus Director Maurice Sheppard surveys the beauty of the Wreaths Across America event earlier this month in Santa Fe. Last week Sheppard was recognized with a certificate for 31 years of service to the Lasses and Lads of Enchantment (LALOE) and for being an original charter member. Courtesy photo

The Lasses and Lads of Enchantment (LALOE) and Santa Fe Harmonizers (SFH) provided some holiday harmony at the Wreaths Across America event and at Pacifica Senior Living in Santa Fe. The choruses sang at Montecito and Kingston Living Centers in addition to other venues in Los Alamos. The previously Read More

Taos Opera Institute: An Evening With Jamie Barton

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Taos Opera Institute News:

The Taos Opera Institute has announced that renowned mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton will perform 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13 at the Taos Community Auditorium to benefit Taos Opera Institute (TOI).

Hailed by Opera Magazine as “a complete singer with a once-in-a generation voice,” Barton is fresh from her triumphant performance as Elizabeth Van Lew in Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere of Intelligence by composer Jake Heggie (Dead Man Walking). 

Barton is familiar to New Mexico audiences from her recent performances in Tristan und Isolde at the Santa Fe Opera and Don Carlos Read More

Santa Fe Symphony Announces Adopt A Musician

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Santa Fe Symphony News:

Is there a Santa Fe Symphony musician you have always wanted to meet?

Musicians are the core of the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus—the ones who bring music to life. When you adopt a musician you honor our artists’ exceptional talent and dedication. Your adoption helps sustain high standards of professional support for our tenured orchestra members and outstanding singers.

From now until Dec. 31, 2023, choral musicians are available for adoption at $400 each or via a monthly payment plan of $33 for 12 months (the duration of the adoption). What better way to help Read More

Taos Chamber Music Group: ‘Winter Reverie’ Jan. 20-21

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Courtesy/TCMG

TCMG News:

The Taos Chamber Music Group (TCMG) starts off 2024 with a multimedia concert, “Winter Reverie” at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. 

TCMG performers violinist Elizabeth Baker, violist Laura Chang, cellist Sally Guenther and pianist Debra Ayers will impart winter daydreams and Romantic musings in this thoughtfully curated program.  

Ayers created “Winter Reverie” for TCMG, and it features Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Ernő Dohnányi’s Serenade in C Major, and the multimedia portion with Read More