Today's Features

El Rancho de Las Golondrinas will be re-enacting New Mexico Civil War battles at “Battlefield New Mexico: The Civil War and More.” The battles of Glorieta Pass and Apache Canyon were fought near Santa Fe in 1862. The re-enactments will be conducted by the First New Mexico Volunteer Infantry, along with living history re-enactors from the state and elsewhere.
Other activities that are included is military drills and cannon fire, Union and Confederate camps, music by the Territorial Brass Band, Civil War-era living history and demonstrations, talk about Civil War-era medicine and surgery and much more to see.
The event runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, with re-enactments beginning at 2 p.m. Adults: $8; seniors, 62 and over and teens: $5. Children under 13 get in free.
El Rancho de las Golondrinas Living History Museum is located at 334 Los Pinos Road, just south of Santa Fe. From I-25, take Exit 276 and follow the signs.
For more information, visit golondrinas.org or call 471-2261.  

Bioponics Institute established itself early this year as a super green business in the hydroponic and aquaponic food growth industry in Santa Fe. It is a “real food” advocate promoting — local grown organic food for everyone. BpI produces organic, nutritious, fresh food at affordable prices for both people and livestock through advanced hydroponic, aquaponic and animal fodder technologies and the relationships it develops within the locales it serves.
Did you know food travels approximately 1,500 miles before it even gets to your table? And by then, that its nutritional value is minimal? That it takes 50 gallons of water to grow one head of Bibb lettuce conventionally, and that it takes only one gallon hydroponically?

 The Los Alamos Concert Association presents the Borromeo String Quartet in a concert dedicated to the memory of George and Helen “Satch” Cowan, local patrons of the arts whose service to the community of Northern New Mexico will long be remembered.
“Satch” passed away in 2011 and George died last year.
Beginning with George’s service on LACA’s Board of Directors in the early 1950s, he and his wife supported the association’s efforts to bring great music to Los Alamos for more than 60 years. LACA’s unique program offering free tickets to young people, master classes with its artists and other youth outreach events will continue into the future thanks to the Cowan’s generosity.
Since their debut in 1989, the Borromeo String Quartet have become one of the most sought after strings quartets in the world, performing over 100 concerts of classical and contemporary music across three continents every season.
Audiences and critics alike champion their ability to bring back the contemporary fire to often heard works from the classic repertoire while making even the most challenging new music approachable.
As one of today’s most adventurous quartets, they continue to push musical, intellectual, and technical boundaries to a level achieved by only a very few.

The May 10 Spring Concert presented by the Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra will feature the works of several well known composers from the mid-romantic period.
Director Don Gerheart, has chosen works which “have audience appeal and utilize all of the sections of the orchestra as much as possible, while still having a balanced program,” Gerheart said.
Procession of the Nobles opens the concert. Russian composer, Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov, was a master of orchestration and wrote this piece as part of his opera Mlada. It begins with the brilliant fanfares of the brass along with percussion, then proceeds to processional music, a majestic tune in the strings and concludes with an energetic march.
The other three works have the common theme of using incorporated folk tunes — from Russia, Germany and Czechoslovakia. The Caucasian Sketches #2, “Iveria,” by a pupil of Rimsky Korsakov, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, is a suite of four movements based on Russian folk music.
The Hungarian Dance Number 5 of Johannes Brahms was originally composed for piano, four hands, but has been arranged for full orchestra. Its lively melodies, familiar to many, are based on folk tunes of the Roma people.