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The Figueroa Music and Arts Project: "Gems of the Baroque"

Fri. 1/31 10a:  Maestro Guillermo Figueroa leads the Figueroa Project Chamber Orchestra in music by Baroque masters Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn and Bach, February 2 at the Cathedral of St. John in Albuquerque.  Organist Maxine Thevenot is the Orchestra's guest soloist for Handel's Organ Concerto No. 3.  Guillermo Figueroa joins Spencer Beckwith for a preview of the concert.

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.