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‘Salt and Pepper’ a Funny, Touching and Accurate Look at Aging

The Director (Rick Vargas) invites ‘Gertrude’ (Deborah Dennison) to look over his script in ‘Resting Places.’ Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Joyce (Deborah Hayden), left, and Dianne (Jennifer Graves) share a moment together at the Post Office. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

It’s not often one reviews two productions of the same play within five months. I reviewed the New Mexico premier of Los Alamos playwright Robert Benjamin’s “Salt and Pepper” in June. Last night I attended a new Read More

Meet Photographic Artist Karen Waters Saturday

Tapping at My Door’ is a photographic art piece by Karen Waters
 
‘Winter Respite,’ photographic art by Karen Waters.

FLAC News:

Photographer Karen Waters focuses on images of the natural world, with trees and birds her most common subjects. She has developed a unique style of presentation, manipulating the images by digitally adding a layer of texture to the photograph.

Waters will hold a “Meet and Greet” session 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Fuller Lodge Art Center to share stories about her photography adventures, to answer questions about her Read More

Hannemann’s Music Corner: Introduction to Notation

Hannemann’s Music Corner
Column by RICHARD HANNEMAN
 
Introduction to Notation

It’s time we learn music notation. Notation, in some form of representing sounds on paper, goes back as far as the Greeks. Notation has been described as a set of playing instructions, but it is much more than that.

Learning notation is learning musical literacy. Musical literacy serves the same function of linguistic literacy, allowing you to share thoughts and ideas and to communicate with others through music, just as linguistic literacy allows you to share thoughts and ideas and to communicate Read More

Taos School of Music Welcomes Miro Quartet for 2014 Season

The Miro Quartet. Courtesy photo

TSM News:

Taos School of Music, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious summer chamber music schools, announces the addition of the highly-acclaimed Miro Quartet to its 2014 summer  faculty.

“We are thrilled that the Miro Quartet will be joining us for the 2014 season, as faculty members and guest artists,” Kathleen Anderson Knox, executive director of Taos School of Music said. 

The Miro will join a roster of  distinguished faculty that includes Michael Tree, founding member of Guarneri String Quartet, pianists Read More

Hey Mozart! New Mexico Concert Friday

Hey, Mozart! News:

The highpoint of the 2013 Hey, Mozart! New Mexico child composer project will be a free concert presented jointly with the National Hispanic Cultural Center at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.1 in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre.

The young composers from around the state will each perform an original melody and then an ensemble will perform an arrangement of the work by a New Mexico arranger. Karin Ebey of Los Alamos is one of the composers.

This year, they are joined by Quintessence: Choral Artists of the Southwest, members of the Albuquerque Civic Chorus, the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Read More

LASO Presents Fall Concert Nov. 8

Conductor Don Gerheart leads the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra as they rehearse for the Fall Concert. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

LASO News:

The Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra will present its Fall Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8 at Crossroads Bible Church. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and there is no admission charge, however, donations at the door are gratefully accepted.

Conductor Don Gerheart has selected a program that will spotlight all sections of the 60 member orchestra.

The opening number, Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” composed in 1873,  is based on a theme Read More

‘Annie’ on Stage in Taos

Annie and the orphans rehearse for their upcoming performance. Courtesy photo

Staff Report:

What’s the matter? Chaos in the federal government and strife in the Middle East got you down? Or you just managed to pay the propane bill, and suddenly the car is busted again? Are your troubles leaving you with a colorless gloom, casting a shadow on your day and leaving you wondering how, oh, how
can you possibly go on?

The answer is this: Annie, the wonderful, heartwarming musical with its message of hope. The cast of more than 70 Taos performers has been rehearsing since August, and will belt out the familiar Read More

Robert Benjamin’s ‘Salt and Pepper’ Opens Friday at Teatro Paraguas

Tone Forest and Jennifer Graves perform a scene. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

Santa Fe Rep and Teatro Paraguas present Salt and Pepper, a humorous play about maturing by Los Alamos playwright Robert Benjamin.

The play opens Nov. 1 for nine performances. Beth Kennedy Jones directs a stellar and seasoned cast, including Alaina Zachary, Fran Martone, Deborah Dennison, Deborah Hayden, Tone Forrest, Kerry Kehoe, Larry Glaister, Rick Vargas, and Tad Jones.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturday with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Nov. 1-10 at Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie. Tickets Read More

Scenic Roots Perform at Morning Glory Bakery Nov. 1

Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Amber and Erin Rogers are Scenic Roots. These sisters perform original and traditional Ozark, Appalachian, and Celtic music on mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and clawhammer banjo.

Scenic Roots will be in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1 at Morning Glory Bakery, 1377 Diamond Dr. This show is part of the duo’s Fall Colors 2013 concert tour with stops in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and Mississippi. Both women have degrees in commercial music from the renowned bluegrass program at South Plains College.

Amber’s musical journey began when she started playing Read More

Crowd Oohs and Ahhs at Pumpkin Glow Creativity

Los Alamos Arts Council Board Member Deb Huling places candles into pumpkins for the annual Pumpkin Glow, held Saturday night in collaboration with Friday’s Trick or Treat on MainStreet. Sponsored by the Los Alamos Arts Council, the highly popular event featured hundreds of glowing gourds on the lawn of Fuller Lodge. Photo by Kirsten Laskey

Photo by Kirsten Laskey

Photo by Kirsten Laskey

Photo by Kirsten Laskey Read More

Beta Sigma Phi Hosts Arts and Crafts Fair

Necklace. Photo by Bernadette Lauritzen

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN

The sisters of Beta Sigma Phi will host their annual arts and crafts fair with more than 55 vendor 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Crossroads Bible Church in Los Alamos.

Jewelry, clothing, handmade items and holiday decorations will abound, as vendors help the community organization celebrate its 26th year in Los Alamos.

“I always enjoy mingling with long-time neighbors and friends at the craft fair,” Xi Nu member Karen Edwards said. “I can always count on finding unique gifts, while being able to help those in need.”

The Read More

Letter to the Editor: Thank You For Wowing Our Patrons!

By the Staff at the Fuller Lodge Art Center
 
We wanted to shout out a great big thank you from the rooftops for the amazing performers at Harambre Hip Hop Crew and Dance Arts Los Alamos but it occurred to us that more people would probably read and pass on our thanks through the Los Alamos Daily Post! 
 
As part of our Trickster show in September, both groups came out and wowed our patrons with practically an entire day of break dancing and statues coming to life. Both groups were out of this world, and we tried to capture them in all their talent, but unfortunately were unable to upload the
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SFI’s Clio Andris Presents Dr. Strangelove

Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

The popular Science On Screen series continues with Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Postdoctoral Fellow Clio Andris presenting Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 dark comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

The presentation begins at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28 at the CCA, 1050 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe. Advance tickets are recommended. For tickets and prices, call the CCA Box Office at 505-982-1338.

The legendary Peter Sellers stars in Kubrick’s satire of Cold War-era mutually assured destruction, nuclear hysteria, and U.S.-Russian relations. Read More

NMSA Theater Department Presents En Punto de Mis Ojos

NMSA News:

SANTA FE –  New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA) Theater Department presents En Punto de Mis Ojos … an original, site-specific performance that takes place at NMSA.

NMSA is in the former St. Francis Cathedral School, 275 East Alameda in Santa Fe.

Audience members will travel throughout the two-story school building, where they will be immersed in the history and myth of one of the 16th century’s most controversial couples: Hernan Cortez and Malinal, later to be known as La Malinche.

Originally a slave, La Malinche became Cortez’s consort and bore him the first mestizo, Read More

Skeleton Spotted Off Rover Boulevard

This partially buried skeleton was spotted this afternoon in the front yard of a home off Rover Boulevard in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Historic Sculptures Master Plan – The Details

Oppenheimer and Groves statues on Central Avenue in front of Fuller Lodge adorned with flowers during the 2012 County Fair. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Editor's Note: This story appeared in the April 2 edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post and provides background to the upcoming Los Alamos County Council work session discussion of the "Plans for Historic Sculptures" set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the White Rock Fire Station. Minor changes to the plan may have been made since April.

By GREG KENDALL
Los Alamos Daily Post

 

The Historical Sculptures Master Plan Read More

Benefit Concert for Wounded Soldier Features Mama’s Black Sheep

Mama’s Black Sheep. Courtesy photo

LEGION News:

American Legion Post 90 in Los Alamos will host a Halloween Party and Benefit Concert featuring nationally touring duo Mama’s Black Sheep from Baltimore, Md. The party and concert is 7-10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 at the American Legion Post 90, 1325 Trinity Dr. in Los Alamos.

 In addition to live music, there will be a Halloween Costume Contest and other festive activities, all to raise funds to help First Lt. Micah Jay Andersen who was seriously injured in Afghanistan June 1. The American Legion is a private club. To attend, you Read More

‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ Nostalgic Romp Will Win Your Heart

The Man in the Chair (Henry Knutsen), center, lives his dream. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Robert Martin ((Patrick MacDonald), Janet Van De Graff (Rose Corrigan) and The Man in the Chair (Henry Knutsen) in ‘An Accident Waiting to Happen.’ Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

 

Review by BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

There’s nothing like a show where the cast seems to be having as much fun as the audience. Everyone had a rollicking good time at the opening of “The Drowsy Chaperone” Friday night when the Dixon Community Players opened at The Toolshed Read More

Apollo’s Fire Performs Brandenburg Concertos

Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, brings The Brandenburg Concertos to Los Alamos Oct. 27. Courtesy photo 

LACA News:

The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach have proven their extraordinary power to move, delight and captivate audiences for 250 years. Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, will bring these iconic works to Los Alamos at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Smith Auditorium. This performance is the second event in the Los Alamos Concert Association’s 2013-14 Season.

Award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell Read More

Moon Over White Rock

A large October moon shines brightly early Friday evening looking east from Grand Canyon Drive in White Rock. Photo by Katy Korkos Read More

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