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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 visuals for Caroline Shaw’s Thousandth Orange. 

American composer Shaw’s work was inspired by still life paintings. Here is some of what she has to say about it, “There’s a reason that Van Gogh painted those vases of sunflowers again and again, or Caravaggio his fruit. Maybe after the tenth, or the hundredth, or the thousandth time one paints, or looks at, or eats, an orange (or plays a simple cadential figure), it is just as beautiful as the first time. There is still more to see and to hear and to love.”

TCMG’s 31st Season continues with three more programs to follow from March through May 2024.   

For more information on artists and performances, visit taoschambermusicgroup.org. Purchase tickets at  taoschambermusicgroup.org or harwoodmuseum.org.