Music

TGIF Series: Celebrate Bach’s Birthday March 24

TGIF News:

What: Bach’s Birthday: Linda Raney, organ

Music: J. S. Bach for his Birthday

Date: March 24

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

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

Admission: Freewill offering and open to all

For More Information call 982.8544 

Program: 

  • S. Bach (1685-1750)
  • Preludium in G, BWV 550
  • Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV532
  • Prelude and Fugue in a minor, BWV 543

First Presbyterian offers weekly recitals 5:30-6 p.m. Fridays. These concerts are free and open to all. A freewill offering for the recital fund will be received. Read More

LAPS Elementary Students Participate In Music Festival

Chamisa Elementary School music teacher Megan Tholen, along with PE teacher Justin Black, led the Drums Alive workshop during the 2nd Annual North Central General Music Festival. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS elementary students sing in the choir during the North Central General Music Festival. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

Elementary school students from Los Alamos joined students from Santa Fe for the 2nd Annual North Central New Mexico Music Educators General Music Festival on feb. 25 at El Camino Real Academy in Santa Fe.

Around 95 students participated in a variety of music workshops culminating Read More

TGIF Series: eSSO March 17

TGIF News:

What: eSSO

Music: Delius and Haydn

Date: March 17, 2023

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:

Rehearsals: 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13, Wed 3/15 and TGIF 3/17.

  • Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring
  • Haydn Symphony No. 6 in C Major, “Le Matin”
  • Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

March TGIF Conductor is UNM Graduate Student Leonardo Pinto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

June 16 TGIF Cycle would begin May 8.

First Presbyterian Read More

Los Alamos High School Olions: Pippin Opens Thursday

LAHS News:

This week is Pippin’s opening starting Thursday. Performed by the Los Alamos High School Olions, this will be a production the community will not want to miss.

Pippin is a musical originally released in 1972 with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, was also a great contributor to the libretto. Fosse also originally choreographed Pippin, so you will see that the dance in our rendition is inspired by him.

The show premises on a mysterious impromptu performance troupe, led by the Leading Player, to Read More

Community Invited To Multicultural Festival March 15

LAPS News:

The community is invited to attend the10th annual Multicultural Festival, Around the World in White Rock. This year the event is 5 p.m. Wedensday, March 15 at Piñon Elementary School.

Presented jointly by Chamisa Elementary and Piñon Elementary Schools, the festival features dance, music, games, crafts and food tastings. This year will feature Brazil, Chile, China, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Korea, Norway, Uzbekistan and Cochiti Pueblo.

There also will be performances by Elias Davila, a hoop dancer from San Ildefonso Pueblo, Dance Arts Los Alamos Scottish Highland Read More

Teatro Paraguas Presents: ‘Katie’s Tales – A Woman’s Desire In The Whirlwind Of History’ April 1

Teatro Paraguas presents ‘Katie’s Tales – a Woman’s Desire in the Whirlwind of History’ April 1. Courtesy/TA

TEATRO PARAGUAS News:

Teatro Paraguas presents “Katie’s Tales — a Woman’s Desire in the Whirlwind of History”, a solo show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 1 with Agnieska Kazimierska from Poland at Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie in Santa Fe.

Katie’s Tales interlaces song, poetry, evocative physicality, and striking stage imagery, to create the dream traces of one woman’s encounter with love, war, ancestral memory, and a future still-to-come.

Katie’s Tales is the story of a woman and Read More

Legendary Coach Lenny Roybal At Long Last Is A Hit

Legendary Coach Lenny Roybal, 83, was a star for a few minutes Thursday as he played his original tune ‘Red or Green?’ for members of the House of Representatives in an effort to get lawmakers to adopt the tune as New Mexico’s official State Chile Song (link). Post screenshot

By ROBERT NOTT
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Lenny Roybal was dreaming of stardom about the time Glen Campbell’s version of “By The Time I Get to Phoenix” hit the radio airwaves late in 1967.

It was a huge hit for Campbell, leaving Roybal’s version — recorded as a single on the Corby Records label around the same time — to languish in obscurity. Read More

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