26 YEARS OF MUSIC IN ANGEL FIRE.Music from Angel Fire opens its 26th season Friday, Aug. 21, when more than 30 internationally known chamber music artists and visitors gather at the Angel Fire Community Center for an evening of classical, romantic, baroque and contemporary work. The season continues through Sept. 6, during which 14 concerts will be presented at a variety of venues the Angel Fire area, including Taos, Eagle Nest, Raton and Las Vegas. Two special events will be held Aug. 18 and Aug. 30 in Taos and Angel Fire, respectively. The first is a pre-season fundraising event, while the latter features the 2009 Benefit Auction of Southwestern art. The 26th season features the Miami String Quartet The Miami String Quartet is an American string quartet. The group was founded in 1988 at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, and is now Quartet in Residence at The Hartt School in Connecticut and Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where all four members serve as , two-time Grammy winner Robert Mirabal of Taos Pueblo and composer-in-residence Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer. Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended St. Paul's School in Concord, NH, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of Music with , who will premier her new work, Capricious Angels, at the closing concert. Thomas was the Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1891 by Theodore Thomas, who conducted it until his death in 1905. Orchestra Hall was built for it in 1904 with funds raised by public subscription; the hall is now part of Symphony Center, which was completed in 1997. and a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music. "We are exceptionally proud of our Angel Fire Young Artist Program, now in its 11th year," said Artistic Director Ida Kavafian. "Ten youngsters from the Curtis Institute of Music Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia; coeducational; founded 1924 by Mary Louise Curtis Bok (later married to Efrem Zimbalist) and named for her father, Cyrus Curtis. in Philadelphia will join us this summer, performing in Festival concerts and meeting with school children in communities across Northern New Mexico Northern New Mexico may simply mean the northern part of New Mexico, but in cultural terms it usually means the area of heavy Spanish settlement in the north-central part. ." For schedule and tickets, call 575-377-3233 or 888-377-3300 or visit www.musicfromangelfire.org. |
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