Look! at the Arts Spring 2011

The Fairest Season

On Saturday, May 7, the 44th Annual Spring Arts and Crafts Fair will be held on the lawn at Fuller Lodge. This year’s Arts and Crafts fair, which will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., promises to be the one of the best ever. There should be something of interest for everyone with lots of new artists, including metal-worker Pozzi Franzetti. Preview his funky pigs (see photo, left) and Southwestern designs at http://franzettimetal.com.

Featuring more than 100 of the finest artisans in New Mexico, the Arts and Crafts Fair offers both traditional and contemporary art forms, in media such as pottery, weavings, clothing, wood-workings, paintings, and jewelry. All of the items displayed are handmade or handcrafted.
The Lads of Enchantment and Sol y Luna will be on hand to entertain shoppers. Join us for a special day with lots of activities in downtown Los Alamos. There will also be food and beverages for sale throughout the fair.

With Mother’s Day following the fair people will be able to find something special for all of those on their list.

For more information contact the Arts Council at 663-0477.
Other events and programs
Brown Bag Performance Series

The LAAC will serve up a double-helping this month of its popular, free, noon-time concerts.

MAY 4: Flute and Friends

Flute and Friends, featuring local musicians Kay Dunn (flute), Jane Gerheart (oboe), Kathy Gursky (viola), Junita Madland (piano), Marjorie Selden (flute), and Dennis Davies-Wilson (bassoon), will perform at noon, Wednesday, May 4, at Fuller Lodge. The show will highlight works by Laura Shur, Samuel Barber and Louis Moyse.

Selden, who has taught music in the public schools and plays in the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra, started an ensemble called Flute and Friends fifty one years ago in Cheney, Washington. The idea was for friends to share playing good music together and to put on public performances in the local community.

This Flute and Friends concert will feature three pieces, and each will have different instruments. The first piece is called “Gentle Into the Night” by Scottish composer Laura Shur. She wrote this piece as a tribute to her brother who died unexpectedly in 1987. It has five movements, and the first letter of each movement spells his name, Henry. “Gentle Into the Night” is played by four players Selden, Gerheart, Davies-Wilson, and Madland. The instrumentalists are all members of the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra. Gerheart is a retired Los Alamos school music teacher; Davies-Wilson is the librarian at the University of New Mexico - Los Alamos; and Madland is a well known local piano teacher and soloist.

The second piece is a “Canzone” by Samuel Barber for solo flute and piano. Selden and Madland will play this short, melancholy tone poem that Barber took from the second movement of his piano concerto.

The third and last piece is “Suite in C” by Louis Moyse. The composer is the son of the famous French flutist Marcel Moyse, and he has become well known for his many compositions that feature the flute. He is also know for establishing the Marlboro Festival in Vermont. He died at age 95 in 2007. The “Suite” has four short movements, and is scored for two flutes and viola, to be played by Selden, Dunn, and Gursky respectively. Dunn performed the Griffith “Poem” for solo flute with the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra. Gursky is a well known violist in New Mexico, including the Roswell Symphony Orchestra.

MAY 13: Albuquerque & Four Corners Pipes and Drums

The Albuquerque & Four Corners Pipes and Drums will perform the final Brown Bag concert of the season noon on Friday, May 13, at Fuller Lodge. In addition to the traditional and mystic music of the great Highland bagpipe and drum ensemble, led by piper Don Machen of Los Alamos, highland dancers will also be taking the stage.
The group first played in 1984 with pipers and drummers from two area bands; today the members are from Los Alamos and Santa Fe. Band pipers are Machen, Anthony and Leslie Puckett, Lynn Foster, Tristan Goodwin, Scott Archer, and Rebecca Dempsey of Santa Fe. Snare drummers are Caroline Spaeth, and Scott Beguin. Margaret Guthrie is the tenor drummer and Christine Rand is the base drummer. Highland dancers are Leslie, Anthony and Jillian Puckett.
The Albuquerque & Four Corners Pipes and Drums typically draws a big crowd, so get to the Lodge early for this one.
Kite Festival

The annual high-flying event will be held May 20, 21 and 22 at Overlook Park in White Rock. There will be kite-building workshops at the park for the kids, a Friday-night concert, food, and sky-fuls of fun for all ages.

New Web Site
The Los Alamos Arts Council has a new updated web site: losalamosartscouncil.org. Please take some time to visit us. We hope you will find it much easier to navigate -- and we'd love to hear your feedback.
Guitars at the Lodge
The season concluded with artist Mickey Jones. Jones, a member of performing solo for a Los Alamos audience April 28 at Fuller Lodge. The Arts Council will update you once the schedule for next season is finalized.
New and renewing members

The Los Alamos Arts council uses a rolling membership program. Your anniversary date should appear on the mailing label of this newsletter. Your prompt renewal is very appreciated to help this non-profit organization continue to bring you excellent programs at a very reasonable or no cost. Below are the names for new and renewing members since the fall newsletter:

For more information about any of the Arts Council’s programs, call Marlane Hamilton, executive director, at 663-0477.

Look at the Arts

May and June 2011
May


May 1 Mesa Public Library, Stephen Stoddard WWII, One Soldier’s Story,

Opening Reception, 2- 4 p.m., exhibits through May 28.

May 1  LA Rotary Club, Deborah Beene Memorial Auditions,  Fuller Lodge, 1 p.m.
May 1  Party for PEEC, benefit dinner, Best Western Hilltop House Hotel, 4:30 p.m.
May 1  Coro de Camara presents “ If Music be the Food Of Love, Sing On...”, United Church, 2:30 p.m.

May 4 LA Arts Council Brown Bag Performance Series, Flute and Friends, Fuller Lodge, 12 noon.

May 5  Mesa Public Library Free Film Series, High Fidelity, 6:30 p.m.
May 7  LA Arts Council, Spring Arts and Crafts Fair, Fuller Lodge lawn, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
May 8  LA Concert Association, Metales m5, Duane Smith Auditorium, 4 p.m.
May 10  LA  Historical Society Lecture Series, Steve Stoddard,

Memories & Memorabilia, Fuller Lodge,  7:30 p.m.

May 13  LA Arts Council Brown Bag Performance Series,

Albuquerque and Four Corners Pipes &Drums, Fuller Lodge, 12 noon.

May 14  LA Community Winds, The Pines of Rome, White Rock Baptist Church, 7 p.m.
May 14, 15  Starstruck Youth Theatre, Comic Book Artist, Duane Smith Auditorium, 3 p.m.
May 20  Fuller Lodge Art Center, Opening Reception, Back to Basics, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
May 20  Gordon’s Summer Concert Series, Junior Brown, Overlook Park, 7 p.m.
May 20  Los Alamos Arts Council, Kite Festival, night kite fly, Overlook Park, 7 p.m
May 21  LA Arts Council, Senior Recital, Shannon Burns, Fuller Lodge, 2 p.m.
May 21, 22  LA Arts Council & LANB, 14^th Annual Kite Festival, Overlook Park, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
May 21  PEEC Art Supplies Swap, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. (3540 Orange St.)

May 13  LA Arts Council Senior Recital, Eli Berg, Alex Austell, Fuller Lodge, 7 p.m.

May 26  Mesa Public Library Authors Speak Series, Marilyn Stablein, 7 p.m.
May 27  Gordon’s Summer Concert Series, J T and the Clouds, Ashley Pond, 7 p.m.
May 28   Voices of Praise Spring Concert, First Baptist Church, 6 p.m.

June


Jun. 3   Gordon’s Summer Concert Series,  Eric Sardinas Band, Ashley Pond, 7 p.m.
Jun. 3  LA Arts Council, Senior Recital, Aubrie Powell, Fuller Lodge, 6 p.m.
Jun. 7   LA Arts Council, Senior Recital, David Li, 7 p.m.
Jun. 4  Summerfest at Pajarito Mt. Ski Area, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Jun. 10  Gordon’s Summer Concert Series, Cedric Burnside Project,

Chamberfest kick-off, Main & Central, 7 p.m.

Jun. 11  Gordon’s Summer Concert Series, Nomads, Main & Central, 10 a.m. -2:30 p.m.
Jun. 17  Gordon’s Summer Concert Series, Greg Abate & Pete Amahl Trio, Ashley Pond, 7 p.m.
Jun. 19  39^th Annual Tour de Los Alamos Bike Tour, 6:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Jun. 23  Mesa Public Library Authors Speak Series, Christina Nealson, 7 p.m.
Jun. 24  Gordon’s Summer Concert Series, John Nemeth, Pajarito Ski Area, 7 p.m.      

Los Alamos Arts Council

Board of Directors

2010-2011
Margaret McIntyre, president

Paul Mutschlecner, vice president

Pat Randall, treasurer

Pat Boyer, secretary

Charlene Cox-Clifton

Janine Detter

Kelly Dolejsi

Mary Pat Goulding

Kathy Hjeresen

Richard Klamann

Kirsten Laskey

Doris Theilemann

Marlane Hamilton, Executive Director




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