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The Santa Fe Community Orchestra closes its season with a free concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 4, at St. Francis Auditorium. Every year this nonprofessional but enthusiastic orchestra holds a competition for new symphonic compositions, and it will premiere the latest winner in this concert: The Ruins of Quivira by Santa Fe pianist-and-composer Charles Blanchard.
Nothing against Mozart and Beethoven, but sometimes a music lover hungers for a change of diet from the familiar classics. In Santa Fe, concertgoers can enjoy a smorgasbord of repertoire when it comes to chamber or choral music, but for aficionados of full-scale symphonic music the city’s concert menus tend toward the tried and true. The most notable exception lurks where one might least expect it, in the Santa Fe Community Orchestra.
Good friends Tony Blankenship and Cory Fidler are chefs who work in the Santa Fe restaurant/hotel industry. They are behind Chefscapades, a benefit for Santa Fe’s Interfaith Community Shelter.