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Music from Angel Fire’s 43rd Festival, August 13th-26th, 2026! See www.musicfromangelfire.org for details.

10/12/2026

Hello Everyone and Happy Musical Monday!

In honor of today being Indigenous Peoples' Day we chose to feature the music of Robert Mirabal.

Robert Mirabal (b. 1966) is a Pueblo musician and Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. He is an award-winning musician and leading proponent of world music. Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling. Mirabal has twice been named the Native American Music Award's Artist of the Year, and has received the Songwriter of the Year award three times. He is also a two-time Grammy Award winner. His breakthrough PBS musical production, Music From a Painted Cave, remains a benchmark of Native American traditional/rock fusion and storytelling. Mirabal also has ties to Music From Angel Fire being a featured artist during the 2018 Music From Angel Fire festival. Along with bring a musician and composer, he is also a painter, master craftsman, poet, actor, screenwriter, author, horseman, and farmer.

Here is a link to a playlist of his music. Many of the videos in this playlist come from his PBS musical production, "Music From A Painted Cave" from 2002.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Egggh5oZJeVX13u7D5-om_eVp5yCgqT&si=x69x7h_-TpeWRsNS

We Hope You Enjoy!

10/09/2026

Hello everyone, we hope you are all well. We have begun our search for the artwork that will be used for the 2027 festival. If you or anyone you know is an artist and would like to have the chance to have your art work featured, please review the attached photo which contains all the pertinent information on how to submit your art. Also feel free to share the photo and this post with anyone that might be interested.

10/05/2026

Hello Everyone and Happy Musical Monday!

Today we would like to share with you Franz Shubert's, "Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821".

The Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert(1797-1828) in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition extant today for the arpeggione. The sonata was composed in November 1824, about a month after Schubert had returned to Vienna from his second stay in Zseliz. The piece was probably commissioned by Schubert's friend Vincenz Schuster, who was a virtuoso of the arpeggione Which had only been invented the previous year. By the time the sonata was published posthumously in 1871, the enthusiasm for the novelty of the arpeggione had long since vanished, together with the instrument itself. It has been adapted to other string instruments, especially the cello and viola.

The arpeggione is a six-stringed fretted musical instrument that is tuned like a guitar. It features a curved bridge so it can be bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba. The instrument is sometimes also called a guitar violoncello. It is essentially a bass viol with a guitar-type tuning. The body shape of the arpeggione is more similar to a medieval fiddle than either the guitar or the bass viol. The arpeggione is especially suited to playing runs in thirds, double stops, and arpeggios. It enjoyed a brief period of popularity for about a decade after its invention around 1823 by the Viennese instrument luthiers Johann Georg Stauffer and Peter Teufelsdorfer.

Here is a performance using an Arpeggione as well as a Piano Forte.
Movement 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9UgdfwM5Q&list=RDdo9UgdfwM5Q&start_radio=1
Movement 2&3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFQ85SU_qs&list=RDJRFQ85SU_qs&start_radio=1

09/28/2026

Hello Everyone and Happy Musical Monday!
Today we chose to feature Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka.

Petrushka is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971).
Petrushka tells the story of the loves and jealousies of three puppets. They are brought to life by the Charlatan during the 1830 Shrovetide Fair in Saint Petersburg. Petrushka is in love with the Ballerina, but she rejects him as she prefers the Moor. Petrushka is angry and hurt, and curses the Charlatan for bringing him into the world with only pain and suffering in his miserable life. Because of his anger, he challenges the Moor. The Moor, who is bigger and stronger than Petrushka, kills him with his scimitar. The crowd watching is horrified, and the Charlatan is called to the scene as well as a police officer. The Charlatan reminds everyone that Petrushka is nothing but a puppet made of straw and cloth, and that he has no real emotion nor 'life'. As the crowd disperses, the Charlatan is left alone onstage. At that moment, Petrushka's ghost rises above the puppet theatre as night falls. He shakes his fist and thumbs his nose at the Charlatan, making him flee, terrified. Petrushka then collapses in a second death.

Petrushka was one of three ballets commissioned by impresario Sergei Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes's Paris seasons. Stravinsky composed the music during the winter of 1910–11. It was premièred in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet on June 13, 1911 with the Orchestre Colonne under conductor Pierre Monteux, choreography by Michel Fokine, and sets by Alexandre Benois.
The title role was danced by Vaslav Nijinsky.

Here is the full ballet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXkBIWmQQs

We hope you enjoy!

09/21/2026

Hello Everyone and Happy Musical Monday!

Today we chose to feature Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. Born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk in the Vyatka district of Russia, Tchaikovsky was the son of a successful engineer. Pyotr and his brothers and sister received a sound education from their French governess. His parents sometimes took him to concerts, and after one such evening he complained that he could not fall asleep because of the music stuck in his head. Tchaikovsky attended law school in St. Petersburg, Russia, and, while studying law and government, he took music lessons, including some composing, from Gabriel Lomakin. Tchaikovsky graduated at the age of nineteen and took a job as a bureau clerk. He worked hard, but he hated the job. He soon met the Rubinstein brothers, Anton and Nikolai, both of whom were composers. In 1862 Anton opened Russia's first conservatory, under the sponsorship of the Imperial Russian Music Society, in St. Petersburg. Tchaikovsky was its first composition student. He studied harmony and counterpoint with Zaremba and instrumentation and composition with Rubinstein. Once Tchaikovsky graduated in 1865, Nikolai offered him the post of Professor of Music Theory at the soon-to-open Moscow Conservatory. While the salary for his professorship was only 50 rubles a month, the offer itself boosted Tchaikovsky's morale and he accepted the post eagerly. From 1867 to 1878, Tchaikovsky combined his professorial duties with music criticism while continuing to compose. This activity exposed him to a range of contemporary music and afforded him the opportunity to travel abroad. During the 1870s and later, there was considerable communication between Tchaikovsky and the Rubinsteins as well as the members of the "Mighty Five" Russian composers.

The Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 was composed in 1872. One of Tchaikovsky's joyful compositions, it was successful right from its premiere and also won the favor of "Mighty Five". Tchaikovsky used three Ukrainian folk songs in this symphony, which caused it to be nicknamed the "Little Russian" by Nikolay Kashkin, a friend of the composer as well as a well-known musical critic in Moscow. Despite its initial success, Tchaikovsky was not satisfied with the symphony. He revised the work extensively in 1879–80, substantially rewriting the opening movement and shortening the finale. This revision is the version of the symphony usually performed today, although there have also been supporters of the original version. Tchaikovsky wrote much of the Little Russian Symphony during his summer holiday at Kamianka in Ukraine with his sister Aleksandra's family, the Davydovs. The Davydov estate had become the composer's favorite refuge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_ixBQNKN8&list=RD0g_ixBQNKN8&start_radio=1

We hope you Enjoy!

09/14/2026

Hello Everyone and Happy Musical Monday!

Today we chose to feature music by composer Anna Bon(c.1738-after 1767). We chose her Six Flute Sonatas, Op. 1

Anna Bon was a performer and composer during the transition period between the Baroque and Classical periods which often dubbed the "Rococo" era. Much of Anna's life is unknown and lost to time like her exact date of birth. The only record we have is a baptism date which places her birth around 1738 in Bologna. Both her parents were professional musicians. Her father Girolamo was a set designer and librettist, and her mother Rosa Ruvinetti was an opera singer. At the age of four, she was admitted to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice as a student where studied with the maestra di viola, Candida della Pietà. In 1755, she and her family moved to Bayreuth, Germany to work as court musicians for Margrave Friedrich of Brandenburg Culmbach and his wife, the composer Wilhelmine von Bayreuth. After Princess Wilhelmine's death in 1758, the musical culture at Bayreuth declined, and the Bon family moved to Austria. In 1762, she arrived at Eisenstadt to work at the celebrated Esterházy court, where she remained until at least 1765. In 1767 she married a singer named Mongeri. After this she disappears from history with no historical records of her life or death after this point.

In 1756, Anna composed and published her six Op. 1 flute sonatas. At the time her and her parents were in Bayreuth where they were in the service of Margrave Friedrich of Brandenburg Kulmbach. There she held the new post of 'chamber music virtuosa' at the court, and dedicated the work to Friedrich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV1w9cGi5Bk&list=RDqV1w9cGi5Bk&start_radio=1

We hope you enjoy!

09/07/2026

Hello Everyone and Happy Musical Monday!

Today we chose to feature Piano Trio No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 11 by composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944).

Cécile Chaminade is a French Romantic composer and pianist.
Chaminade was born in Batignolles, France and raised in a musical family. She received her first piano lessons from her mother. At around age 10, Chaminade was assessed by Félix Le Couppey of the Conservatoire de Paris. He recommended that she study music at the Conservatoire. Her father forbade it because he believed it was improper for a girl of Chaminade's class. He did, however, allow Chaminade to study privately with teachers from the Conservatoire. She studied piano with Le Couppey, violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, and music composition with Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard and Benjamin Godard. Chaminade experimented in composition as a young child, composing pieces for her cats, dogs and dolls. In 1869, she performed some of her music for Georges Bizet, who was impressed with her talents. In 1878, Chaminade gave a salon performance consisting entirely of her compositions. This performance marked the beginning of her emergence as a composer and performer and became the archetype for the concerts she gave for the rest of her career in which she only performed her own works. In her early years, she gave recitals throughout France, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland. In 1892, she debuted in England, where her work was popular. She repeatedly returned to England in the 1890s, premiering her compositions with such singers as Blanche Marchesi and Pol Plançon. She visited England again in 1907 and performed at the Aeolian Hall in London, and in Bath. Queen Victoria was known to enjoy Chaminade's music and in 1901 at her funeral, the Prélude for Organ, Op. 78, by Chaminade was played. In 1908, she performed concerts in twelve cities in the United States. Her compositions were tremendous favorites with the American public. Most of her compositions were published during her lifetime and were financially successful. She was a prolific composer who published more than four hundred pieces over her eighty-six years. These works cover a wide range of forms, from quasi-concertos with soloist and orchestra such as the Concertino or her Concertstück, Op. 40, to character pieces for solo piano. She also wrote over a hundred mélodies for voice and piano as well as an opéra comique, a highly successful ballet, and a piano sonata.

Here is a recording of Chaminade's Piano Trio No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1UZcvDBitw&list=RDO1UZcvDBitw&start_radio=1

We hope you enjoy!

08/31/2026

Hello Everyone and Happy Musical Monday!

First we want to start out by saying thank you to everyone who attended and made this season a success. We are grateful for all of you and hope to see you next year. Speaking of next year we have already started making plans for next season so stay tuned for updates in the future.

For today's Musical Monday we chose to feature Beethoven's "Emperor Concerto".

The Piano Concerto No. 5 in E♭ major, Op. 73, known as the Emperor Concerto, is a piano concerto composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Beethoven composed the concerto in 1809 under salary in Vienna, and he dedicated it to Archduke Rudolf, who was his patron, friend, and pupil. Its public premiere was on 28 November 1811 in Leipzig, with Friedrich Schneider as the soloist and Johann Philipp Christian Schulz conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Beethoven was usually the soloist for his concertos, but could not perform due to his declining hearing.
The origin of the epithet Emperor is uncertain. It may have been coined by Johann Baptist Cramer, the English publisher of the concerto. The concerto has no association with any emperor, and according to Donald Tovey and Betsy Schwarm, Beethoven would have disliked it due to his disapproval of Napoleon's conquest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEYajsa8NeM&list=RDpEYajsa8NeM&start_radio=1

We Hope You Enjoy!

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87710

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Tuesday	10am - 4pm
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