Entertainment

TCMG: American String Quartet Performs In Taos June 2-3

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Taos Center for the Arts and the Taos Chamber Music Group present the American String Quartet at the Taos Community Auditorium June 2-3. Courtesy/TCMG

TCMG News:

Taos Center for the Arts partners with Taos Chamber Music Group (TCMG) to present the American String Quartet at the Taos Community Auditorium 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 2 and Friday, June 3 as part of the  TCMG Season 29. 

The ASQ will perform two different shows. The first (June 2) features Beethoven’s String Quartets Opus 74 (“Harp”) and Opus 131 in a belated 250th birthday tribute that TCMG had originally scheduled with the Americans Read More

NMFO: ‘Wanted Man’ To Begin Filming In New Mexico

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Actor Kelsey Grammer

NMFO News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Film Office Director Amber Dodson announced Wednesday that the feature “Wanted Man” will begin principal photography beginning in May, in and around Las Cruces.

Directed by Dolph Lundgren (“Castle Falls”) and produced by Craig Baumgarten (“Hook,” “Universal Soldier,” “Shattered Glass,” “Castle Falls”), “Wanted Man” is the story of an aging detective, Travis Johansen, whose violent policing methods have given the department a serious public relations problem.

To save his job, he is sent to Mexico to extradite a female witness, and once Read More

LALT Presents ‘Blythe Spirit’ By Noel Coward

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Wendy Lanchier as Elvira and Patrick MacDonald as Charles in the LALT production of ‘Blythe Spirit’. Courtesy/LALT

LALT News:

The Los Alamos Little Theatre’s (LALT) May production is the classic comedy, “Blithe Spirit” written by Noël Coward and first performed on London’s West End in 1941.

Performances are Friday and Saturday, May 13, 14 (curtain at 7:30 p.m.), Sunday May 15 (curtain at 2 p.m.) Thursday May 19, Friday May 20 and Saturday May 21 (curtain at 7:30).

It is the story of writer Charles Condomine who is doing background research for a new mystery novel. He and his wife invite a local medium Read More

TGIF Concert Series: Pianist David Solem May 20

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CONCERT News:

What: David Solem, piano

Music: Nikolai Kapustin 

Date: May 20, 2022

Time: 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:15 p.m.)

Where: First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501

Admission: Freewill offering and open to all

For More Information call 982.8544 

Program: 

  • Eight Concert Studies, opus 40 (1984) – Nikolai Kapustin (1937 – 2020)
  • Prelude
  • Reverie
  • Toccatina
  • Reminiscence
  • Raillery
  • Pastoral
  • Intermezzo
  • Finale

A Note about Kapustin: Nikolai Kapustin was a Ukrainian composer and pianist. He played with many Soviet jazz bands in his career and his compositional Read More

Susan Eddings Pérez Gallery: 2022 Spring Highlights

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Susan Eddings Pérez Gallery announces ‘Spring 2022 Highlights’ at 717 Canyon Road in Santa Fe. Visit susaneddingsperez.com. Courtesy/Susan Eddings Perez Gallery

Susan Eddings Perez ‘Go Ahead and Stop’, 2022 Mixed media with gold leaf on panel 60 x 60 in. Courtesy/Susan Eddings Perez Gallery

Brandon Reese ‘Time’, 2021 Clay, Oxides, Paint, Plaster, Wood, Sticks 30 x 30 x 2.50 in. Courtesy/Susan Eddings Perez Gallery

Alison Hixon ‘I would never’, 2022 ink and watercolor 8.50 x 11 in. Courtesy/Susan Eddings Perez Gallery

Rob Lang ‘Dry Dock’ 23C, 2022 (3/10) Photograph Limited Edition Pigment Read More

Santa Fe Opera Guild Presents: ‘Carmen’s Path From Novella To Opera’ Tuesday May 10

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Celestine Galli-Marie as Carmen de Bizet. Courtesy/SFOG

SFOG News:

Santa Fe Opera Guild Presents ‘Carmen’s Path from Novella to Opera’, 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10 with presenter James Keller virtually on Zoom. (Virtual Check-In, 2:50 p.m. MDT)

Complementary for Guild Members; $10 Per Device for Non-Members.

Keller considers how composer Georges Bizet and librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy put together their opera Carmen, drawing principally from Prosper Mérimée’s novella but from other literary and musical sources as well.

He will discuss how political, social, and aesthetic Read More

LARSO Kicks Off Older Americans Month With LAHS Jazz Band Concert Friday Night May 6

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Come let the cool, golden melodious tones of Hilltopper Jazz set your mood this Friday night at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. Courtesy/LARSO 

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Executive Director
LARSO

While it is not over, we appear to have some semblance of a graduated return to a graduated normal-ish.

May is Older Americans Month and the local senior centers will celebrate throughout the month. It kicks off with a community concert, brought to us by the Los Alamos Hilltopper Jazz Band, after award winning teacher, Ryan Finn made the offer.

There will be indoor and outdoor seating 6-8 p.m. this Friday Read More

PAC 8 Community Media Center: May 6-12, 2022

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PAC 8 News:

PAC 8 Community Media Center is available for recording events, transferring of old media, shooting and editing, live streaming and drone photography and videography.

For information, email pac8@losalamos.com, call 505.662.7228 or visit pac8cmc.com.

PAC 8 Television schedule for May 6 through May 12:

Friday, May 6

  • 6 a.m. Democracy Now! – Live
  • 10 a.m. The Tom Hartman Program
  • 11 a.m. County Council Replay 5-03-22
  • 3 p.m. Democracy Now!
  • 5 p.m. PAC PAGES – Los Alamos County News Updates
  • 6 p.m. Los Alamos Senior Center – “Chair Yoga with Jacci”
  • 7 p.m. JROMC presents “MANHATTAN-
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TGIF Concert Series: Baritone Rick Beaubien & Pianist Natasha Stanjovska May 27

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CONCERT News:

What: Rick Beaubien, baritone & Natasha Stanjovska, piano

Music: American Art Songs

Date: May 27, 2022

Time: 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:15 p.m.)

Where: First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501

Admission: Freewill offering and open to all

For More Information call 982.8544 

Program: 

  • American Songs, American Poems
  • Musical settings of well-known American poems
  • Rick Beaubien, baritone; Natasha Stojanovska, piano

Program:

(Note: All printed texts are the versions set by the composer, which sometimes differ from the originals.)

  1. “Serenity” (1919)
    Charles
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