Thurs. 8/16 10a: Each year, northern New Mexico's chamber music festival Music From Angel Fire commissions a new work from an American composer and invites that composer to be in residence at the Festival. Over the years, composers such as Joan Tower, Roberto Sierra and Lowell Liebermann have taken part. Host Spencer Beckwith talks with Music From Angel Fire's Artistic Director, Ida Kavafian, about the 2012 composer-in-residence, Steven Stucky.
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.