The times they are a-changin' in the white-male-dominated worlds of classical music and opera, with two big-screen events that demonstrate the change playing here — the feature film Chevalier, about 18th-century Black composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Champion, a new piece by jazz composer Terence Blanchard about the troubled life of boxer Emile Griffith, on the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast series.

The Santa Fe Symphony brings a breath of youth to its celebration of Earth Day.

Laetitia Tamko, better known by her recording sobriquet Vagabon, is preparing a new album and gearing up for an appearance as the opening act for Weyes Blood at Meow Wolf on Wednesday, March 29.

Albuquerque resident Raven Chacon won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music with his Voiceless Mass for orchestra and pipe organ. Now it's coming to Albuquerque, on a Saturday, March 4, concert by the Friends of Cathedral Music at downtown's Cathedral of St. John.

Raven Chacon is an accomplished visual and multi-media artist, as well as a composer, and his scores often include or consist of graphic elements that go far beyond tr…

When husband-and-wife folk duo Ordinary Elephant performs at Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, it will be a visit for the southern Louisiana band but a homecoming for some of the songs they'll perform. 

One of the music world's preeminent solo cellists, Alisa Weilerstein, led a session for nine pre-college students from the area on Jan. 30, demonstrating her skills as a music coach, acting teacher, and psychologist while noticeably improving the performance skills of the aspiring musicians.

Santa Fe Pro Musica’s contribution to the Art + Sol festival is a concert by the acclaimed Dover Quartet, featuring a bedrock work of the string quartet genre, Antonín Dvořák’s “Slavonic” Quartet No. 10, plus George Walker’s 1946 String Quartet No. 1 and Mason Bates’ 2022 Suite for String Quartet.

Susan Graham, Santa Fe's favorite mezzo-soprano, and the Music from Copland House Ensemble, making their local debut, team up for performances of three contemporary chamber music works. The centerpiece is A Standing Witness, a 75-minute survey of American history from 1968 to the pandemic by composer Richard Danielpour and librettist Rita Dove.

He was just a talented kid thrust into an unfamiliar position by his diligence and preparation. Five decades later, Eric Henderson is still touring and mining the skills he learned from Spanish guitar master Andrés Segovia.

There's something to please just about every musical taste on Santa Fe Pro Musica's Winter Orchestra Concert. For new music lovers, there's the area premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis' Earth. Tenor fans get Nicholas Phan, soloist in Earth. Musical archeologists get a symphony by Joseph Bologne, an unjustly neglected 18th-century Black composer. For those seeking an energy fix, Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony and Falla's "Ritual Fire Dance" will be just the ticket.

In an era of such celebrated French polymaths as Voltaire and Beaumarchais, Joseph Bologne certainly stood in their company, as many contemporary reports indicated. 

Tony Furtado likes working with his hands — whether it's writing songs on his banjo, performing to appreciative crowds, or creating sculptures. The artist performs Saturday, Jan. 21, at San Miguel Chapel.

The Modern Jazz Quartet was one of the most important and highly regarded groups working in the genre for several decades and its "third stream" style was created by pianist and Albuquerque native John Lewis. The Aaron Diehl Trio and guest vibraphonist Jason Marsalis reinterpret the MJQ songbook in a Jan. 19 concert at the Lensic.

Violinist Colin Jacobsen, Santa Fe Pro Musica’s new artistic director, is on a mission to widen the classical music tent. He’s just as comfortable programming works written by a contemporary American jazz great or a composer from the classical Indian Odissi dance form or by a Syrian clarinet virtuoso as he is with the Eurocentric tradition, so future Pro Musica seasons will start to take on a more global sensibility.

If you're in a holiday music rut, our recommendations for alternative tunes will recharge the season with options classical or comical, soulful or syncopated.

If your holiday memories are indelibly tied to a Christmas LP or two that you tossed long ago, you're in luck. A company called Christmas LPs to CDs can almost certainly provide you with the record, along with a digital copy of it on CD or MP3 download. Its inventory is extraordinary.

Española native Santiago Alberto has made a name for himself in the music world in Los Angeles. On Dec. 2, he'll take the stage solo in Santa Fe for only the second time.

Michael Martin Murphey's 1991 album Cowboy Christmas: Cowboy Songs II inspired several sequels, as well as Murphey's series of holiday performances. He plays Dec. 3 at St. Francis Auditorium.

Processed instruments, quadraphonic sound, and field recordings are among the distinctive elements of a new monthly series focused on experimental music.

Although Hermanos Gutiérrez is based in Switzerland, the band's music can be described as a soundtrack to a Southwestern journey. 

A Santa Fe man has parlayed his passion for music into a record label, Mama Mañana Records.

Music groups love to talk about talking their audiences on an emotional journey, but the Santa Fe Symphony is going one step farther and taking patrons on a physical journey, with Rite this Way. It's a chamber music concert that begins in the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Center's theater and ends in its ballroom, with a champagne break at the midpoint.