Music

By RUSS GORDON

Igor and the Red Elvises, “your favorite band,” will perform in the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series at 7 p.m. Friday, May 24 at Ashley Pond.

You don’t get this “favorite band” thing? I had a hard time with it when they told me they were my favorite band, after hearing only one song. That was about eight years ago. “You’re not my favorite band!,” I said. “The Rolling Stones, the White Stripes and any band with Ray Wylie Hubbard or Delbert McClinton or Levon Helm in it were my favorites at that time.

LACS News:

To conclude its 70^th anniversary season, the Los Alamos Choral Society is presenting its Spring Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, May at the United Church of Los Alamos.

The concert entitled “Encore!  Favorites Through The Years” will include music from past performances; from the 1970s through the past decade.

Included in this program are:

• “How Can I Keep From Singing”, an American folk hymn arranged by Ronald Staheli,

• “Frostiana”, poems by Robert Frost set to music by Randall Thomson,

• “Omnia

The public is invited to attend an upcoming musical concert hosted by Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Catholic Church of Los Alamos -- the third in its series of free concerts to raise money for the Catherine LeClaire Memorial Organ Fund.

The concert will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19 at IHM, and will showcase the talents of a number of fine musicians from IHM and other churches and musical groups from around northern New Mexico.

Among the featured groups will be an accapella group of twelve voices “Memorare” (meaning ‘To Remember’) formed from experienced singers who were

LAAC News:

Looking back at your childhood, what memories come to mind? Having family picnics at the park? Running through an open field with your friends? Gazing at the sky making shapes out of the clouds? How about attending the Los Alamos Kite Festival?

For the 16^th year, the Los Alamos Arts Council presents the Los Alamos Kite Festival Friday, Saturday, and Sunday May 17-19 at the Soccer Field at Overlook Park in White Rock. Children of all ages are welcome to come and join the festivities.

The members of Rumelia. Photo by Jennifer Esperanza. Courtesy/Rumelia

Staff Report

Rumelia is returning to the Pyramid Café, 751 Central Park Square, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18.

The band has an enthusiastic local following, including Los Alamos folk dancers, who add their talents to the evening. There is a $10 cover and children are free.

Rumelia is a band composed of three women who are putting a new spin on music from Eastern Europe, a region generally known as the Balkans.

Rumelia’s repertoire is derived from the traditional and popular tunes of Albania, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia

Hannemann's Music Corner: What I Learned at LAPS

This week we have been treated to some stellar performances of LAPS musicians at all age levels, from fourth graders to, well, our superintendent on trumpet with the fifth grade band, to our graduating seniors and we still have several concerts to go during the last week of school.

Try to make one of the performances if you can, even if, and particularly if, you don't have a child or grandchild performing.

A few years back, a former Los Alamos band director asked me where I got my music education.

MUSIC News:

The M.A.D. Hatters, consisting of Los Alamos native Dan Nebel on horn, violinist Michael Allerheiligen, and pianist Angela Steiner will present a free lunch time concert at noon in Fuller Lodge Thursday, May 16. 

The Hatters will present Johannes Brahms’ celebrated Trio in E flat Op. 40, a trio by nineteenth century hornist of Opera Paris Frederic Nicholas Duvernoy, and the Walden Trio by New York City-based jazz saxophonist Daniel Schnyder.

By JOYCE WOLFF

I want to congratulate Nancy Wurden on her excellent review in the Los Alamos Daily Post of the Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 concert Sunday at Duane Smith Auditorium.

She described the event beautifully. It was a grand performance. The four vocalists were indeed a lovely blend. Perhaps because of the rewrite for winds only, I heard sounds and melodies that I have not picked out before in listening to this symphony.

I appreciated the addition of the Los Alamos High School Chorus to the Los Alamos Community Winds and Los Alamos Choral Society. It was indeed a "goose

Principal cellist Jim Knudson practices for the upcoming concert. Photo by Jackie MacFarlane

Conductor Don Gerheart, right, discusses the music with French Horn player Jim Beinke. Photo by Jackie MacFarlane

Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra will present an evening of music from the Romantic Period at its Spring Concert, 7 p.m. Friday, May 10 at Crossroads Bible Church.

On the program are “Procession of the Nobles” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, “Caucasian Sketches Suite No.

Staff