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C6 Rio Grande Sun, Thursday, July 25, 1991 Chama Enthused About 1992 Festival concert of The Chama Music Festival," a Jpng-range plan designed to make Chama a music center offering an annual summer series of quality conceits and musical instruction. Next summer, the Chama festival will host a series of 30 musical events, July 10-26, in the village of Chama and on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. The planned concerts will present a mix of popular and classical music. "Colcannon," the Irish Band, will appear July 11. Other performances will include a jazz quintet, a barbershop quartet, a classical vocal quartet, a string quartet and other instrumentalists and vocalists, both from America Lyric tenor Scot Weir sang to a warmly receptive audience of 250 Saturday night in Chama's Community Center.

He was accompanied by pianist Terese Stewart of Denver. "I want to share this music and these mountains," said Weir to his audience. "The music will live even after we are Weir's mutilingual repertoire for the evening included selections from Britten's "Folk Song Arrangements." through Wolf's 'Italian Song Book," Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and Tfonizetti's "The Elixir of Love," among others. He ended the evening's performance with. Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs." His performance marked the first and Europe.

There will be "Discovery Lectures' before the classical concerts. Optional and free, these lectures are designed to increase the enjoyment of concert-goers by discussion of the composers, performers and instruments to be presented. Tenor Weir, who has a home under me Brazos Bluffs near Tierra Amarilla. is the driving force behind the Chama Music Festival. "This is my fondest dream," said Weir, who is volunteering his time, money and voice, "I feel it is my job to expose the public to as many lands of music as I can." "In 1993, in said Weir, "We will institute Children's Concerts.

Pianist Norman Shetler, who works with Classical music and puppets, will offer Saturday morning workshops. By the end of the class, the children will present an opera, using puppets. "Part of the plan of the Chama Music Festival is to have a performance hall by 1994. By 1995, we will institute the Academy, offering master classes for young musicians with the professional singers, pianists, instrumentalists and conductors who come here to perform," said Weir. Authors to Read in Taos At the Weir concert, Phil Cole, of Chama, said, "I think the idea of the Music Festival is great It seems a very well-organized plan.

If this first concert is any indication of the professionalism we can expect, they certainly did all the right things. "It was a good idea to use the young people as ushers, and they did a nice job on the hall," Cole said. "I was mentally comparing it with the Atlanta Syphony, and it compares very favorably. I consider the mix of offerings in the performance very appropriate. It definitely showed that it is being done by someone who knows what he's doing." Other area residents expressed similar views, Chon LaBrier, of Ensenada, said, "I'm at a loss for words.

The concert was wonderful. We are way overdue for this kind of entertainment. I'm especially delighted with the plans for the future. This is not only important to us as the older generation, but it's really good for the young people." A regular Chama visitor, Anne French, of Rockland County, New York, said, "I enjoyed the concert, and found it professional. The concept of the Chama Music Festival is extremely ambitious.

I hope to be here next summer when it is in progress." Jjfape Crisis Center Lil NEW MEXICAN i PI i I. HIM if i music 1 1 I i FBIAL Natalie Goldberg is author of Wild Mind, Living the Writer's Life, and Writing Down the Bones. Goldberg is known throughout the country for her workshops that teach how to free the writer to trust the true source of creative power. When not traveling Goldberg shares her time between Taos and Santa Fe. Alvaro Cardona-Hine poet, translator, painter and composer has published ten books of poetry, prose, and translation.

His work has appeared in over 60 literary magazines including The National and Poetry Northwest. Two new books, When I Was a Father, and Miss O'Keeffe, written with Christine Taylor Patten, (University of New Mexico Press) will be forthcoming in the spring of 1992. He lives in Truchas with his wife Barbara where he owns and operates the Cardona-Hine Gallery. Notices Legal Notices REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FEEDING OF INMATES Proposal No. 35 Sealed proposals will be accepted in the office of the Rio Arriba County Purchasing Agent, Naranjo Building, Onate Street, Espanola, New Mexico, on or before 10:00 a m.

July 29, 1991. Sealed proposals are requested, for the inmates housed at the Adult Detention Facility located in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico. For more information and specifications, cad the purchasing agent at 753-6249. All proposals must be marked on the outside of the envelope. (PROPOSAL NO.

35 TO BE OPENED ON JULY 29. 1991 AT 10:00 A The Rio Arriba Board of County Commissioners reserve the right to accept or reject any or at proposals. Phillip H. Morfin Purchasing Agent (Published July 25, 1991 PO 21939) Society of the Muse of the Southwest summer writer series will present Natalie Goldberg and Alvaro Cardona-Hine Saturday, July 27 at 8 p.m. at the Caffe Tazza on Kit Carson Road in Taos.

Youth Concert In Los Alamos Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will present an 11 a.m. youth concert Saturday, July 27 "Travels With a String Quartet" in the Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos. One of six free youth concerts, the Los Alamos performances will include the Mendelssohn string quartet of Ida Levin and Nicholas Mann, violin; Katherine Murdock, viola and Marcy Rosen, cello. The Festivals American quartet in resident will share amusing anecdotes of their travels together. Legal Notices Legal CITY OF ESPANOLA INVITATION FOR BIDS UNIX BASED CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT IFB No.

92-01 The City of Espanola, pursuant to the requirements of the Procurement Code, is seeking competitive sealed bids for a Unix Based Central Processing Unit described in the Invitation for Bids Copies of the detailed IFB may be obtained by telephoning the Purchasing Agent at 753-2437 of by picking up a copy at City Hal. Deadline far receipt of proposals is 2:00 p.m., August 8, 1991, addressed to: City of Espanola, Post Office Drawer 37, 404 N. Paseo de Onate, Espanola, New Mexico 87S3 Attn: Robert Vigil, Purchasing Agent Proposals received after the deadline will not be considered. Robert Vigi Purchasing Agent (Published July 1. 1991 PO JOINT AGREEMENT SEPTAGE The Pueblo and the County will hold a Thursday.

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