Events

A pop savant who fastidiously avoided easy categorization throughout the course of his career, Todd Rundgren straddled the gap separating a mainstream star from a cult figure.

Formed by lead vocalists and songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, acclaimed indie band Lucius is best known for their sinuous harmonies and highly-original, pop-noir musical artistry.

Four-time Grammy winner Stanley Clarke, a jazz-fusion pioneer and bass virtuoso, revolutionized the genre with Return to Forever and is celebrated as a living legend in global music history.

STRAVINSKY Three Pieces
JONNY GREENWOOD Suite from There Will Be Blood
BEETHOVEN Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
DANISH QUARTET Nordic Folk Music

In 1975, two visionary artists—film director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass—came together to create Koyaanisqatsi, an apocalyptic vision of the collision of urban life and technology versus the environment. The film comes to life at the Lensic with the score performed live by the Philip Glass Ensemble.   

Singer-songwriter heavyweights Craig Finn (The Hold Steady), Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), and Alejandro Escovedo come together on the Lensic stage for a night of incredible music and collaboration.

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk.

The Symphony’s annual Messiah performance at the Lensic is a Santa Fe tradition and a “can’t miss” event of the holiday season.

DakhaBrakha is a music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine. Their music has textural, layered sounds with distinctive percussive heartbeats, thumping bass lines, distorted electric guitars, and influences of jazz, spoken word, rap, and punk.

Experience a brilliant program packed with winter and holiday favorites the entire family can enjoy.

Celebrate the holidays with The Klezmatics, the Grammy-winning klezmer superstars who revolutionized Yiddish music.

Colin Jacobsen, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Edward Arron, cello

BACH Goldberg Variations (arr. Dmitri Sitkovetsky)