Santa Fe Pro Musica
Listen to their discussion about where Song comes from—of the inspiration, creation, and collaboration that culminates in Pro Musica’s Season Opening Orchestra Concert.
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Gabriela Lena Frank was born in Berkeley, California to a mother of Peruvian-Chinese ancestry and a father of Lithuanian-Jewish descent. She drew inspiration for her six-movement work Leyendas (Legends) from “the idea of mestizaje … where cultures can coexist without the subjugation of one by the other. As such, this piece mixes elements from the Western classical and Andean folk music traditions.”
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Woven throughout the concert are poems from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass with music by our artistic director Colin Jacobsen, his brother Eric, and GRAMMY-winning guitarist Kyle Sanna. Whitman’s words reach out to us from a fragile moment in America’s democracy—the Civil War—and call us to attention in our own times.
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The Season Opening Orchestra Concert titled “I Hear America Singing” features the Mexican singer–songwriter Magos Herrera in a program that connects music from across the American continent and across centuries.
The program opens with Vivaldi’s La Folia, a dance form that has shadowy roots dating back to 15th-century Central America. The Peruvian-American composer Gabriela Lena Frank is featured in Coqueteos from her larger work Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout.
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La Folia is an old form of music that is based on a repeating chord sequence or bass line upon which variations are performed. From noisy dances on the streets and plazas to elegant renditions in lavish courts, this simple form has been adapted across centuries and continents.
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Magos Herrera is best known for her eloquent vocal improvisations, singing in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, and her bold style that combines elements of contemporary jazz with Latin American melodies and rhythms. NPR called her style “bold, thrilling, and effortlessly global.”
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Join us for string quartet concerts at 3 pm, and a three-course dinner and wine with the artists at 5 pm.
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Catalyst Quartet
Sunday, October 13
Concert at St. Francis Auditorium
Artist Dinner at 315 Restaurant and Wine Bar
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Brentano Quartet
Sunday, February 16
Concert at St. Francis Auditorium
Artist Dinner at Restaurant Martín
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Isidore Quartet
Sunday, March 3
Concert at St. Francis Auditorium
Artist Dinner at Andiamo!
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Brooklyn Rider
Sunday, April 27
Concert at the Lensic
Artist Dinner at Santa Fe School of Cooking
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Brooklyn Rider performs Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1
Each of our five orchestral programs features special guest soloists who have a composing or improvisation practice as well as being virtuosic performers themselves.
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Season Opening
Orchestra Concert
I Hear America Singing
Sun. Sept 29 at 3 pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
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Fall Orchestra Concert
Art of Concerto Grosso
Sat. Nov 9 at 4 pm
Sun. Nov 10 at 3 pm
First Presbyterian Church
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Winter Orchestra Concert
Mozart’s Birthday and Chinese New Year
Sat. Jan 25 at 4 pm
Sun. Jan 26 at 3 pm
St. Francis Auditorium
in the NM Museum of Art
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Spring Orchestra Concert
The Lark Ascending
Sat. Mar 15 at 4 pm
Sun. Mar 16 at 3 pm
St. Francis Auditorium
in the NM Museum of Art
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Season Finale
Orchestra Concert
Appalachian Spring
Sun. May 4 at 3 pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
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The Mozart Requiem, performed by the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, conducted by Thomas O’Connor, at the Lensic, Apr 27 & 28, 2024
Mozart Requiem (completed by Robert D. Levin) performance April 28, 2024.
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, Thomas O’Connor, conductor laureate, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Maxine Thévenot, Artistic Director. Sherezade Panthaki, soprano, Meg Bragle, also, Thomas Cooley, tenor, Douglas Williams, bass.
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“Armed with vision, courage, a sense of humor and a devastating bow arm, violinist Colin Jacobsen is emerging as one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene.”
Washington Post 2011
Colin remarks that “Pro Musica’s 2024–25 season programming is indicative of my continuing interest in classical music being a living tradition in which careful curation of new music—usually in dialogue with older music—allows audiences to be surprised, refreshed, and find connections to today’s newest voices.”
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Season Opening
Orchestra Concert
Sun. Sept 29 at 3 pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
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Fall Orchestra Concert
Sat. Nov 9 at 4 pm
Sun. Nov 10 at 3 pm
First Presbyterian Church
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Bach Festival
Bach and Beyond Part I & Part II
Sat. Dec 28 at 7:30 pm
Sun. Dec 29 at 3 pm
St. Francis Auditorium
in the NM Museum of Art
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String Quartet
Brooklyn Rider
Sun. Jan 19 at 3 pm
St. Francis Auditorium
in the NM Museum of Art
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Winter Orchestra Concert
Sat. Jan 25 at 4 pm
Sun. Jan 26 at 3 pm
St. Francis Auditorium
in the NM Museum of Art
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Spring Orchestra Concert
Sat. Mar 15 at 4 pm
Sun. Mar 16 at 3 pm
St. Francis Auditorium
in the NM Museum of Art
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String Quartet
Brooklyn Rider
with Soprano Ariadne Greif
Sun. Apr 27 at 3 pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
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Season Finale
Orchestra Concert
Sun. May 4 at 3 pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
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I Hear America Singing
Sunday, September 29, at 3 pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
We kick off our 43rd Season with
Magos Herrera and her Jazz Trio,
with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra
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Just Added! Arnold Steinhardt Wednesday, January 22 at 6 pm | Governor’s Mansion
A Musical Salon in the Key of Strawberry. Arnold Steinhardt … Read our full E-Newsletter on Mailchimp.
They’re Back! Twice!
Brooklyn Rider
How’d we do it? We know a guy…
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Johnny Gandelsman, violinist, member of Brooklyn Rider, and music producer on two Ken Burns documentaries, performs the six Bach Cello Suites on violin. “…His approach is singular: feather-light and rooted in dance and folk music ”—The New York Times, Joshua Baron, June 1, 2021. Full article…
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The dazzling Mexican-born singer and songwriter Magos Herrera launches Santa Fe Pro Musica’s 2024–2025 season with original songs and classics from the Latin American songbook. Many of the songs on this concert are from her latest album Aire (2023)…
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