His opera La Llorona, a collaboration with novelist Rudolfo Anaya will be presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center in October, 2008.

In 2007 the New Mexico Symphony commissioned him to write the commemoration piece for its 75th anniversary. Collaborating with cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, he created the satiric/comic opera Too Much Coffee Man which premiered in 2006.

His music has been recorded by the Kiev and Czech Philharmonics and the Prague Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra for the Masterworks of the New Era series available on the ERM label. Two CDs of his music, Contemporaries (short, satirical keyboard works) and ARIAS (excerpts from operas) have been released on the BACAT label.

He's been an arts writer for the past 20 years, and serves as the book editor, for the Journal.

Over the years, he's also acted in plays, sung in choruses and played trumpet.

In New Mexico Ms. Noyer has taught, directed, and choreographed contemporary dance for several years. Her writing on dance includes a monograph accompanying the video of choreographer Bill Evens’ ballet “The Legacy.” An overview of Evans’s world wide career, it was written and published during his tenure at the University of New Mexico.

Ms. Noyer’s studies in the humanities, and her studio dance work influence her approach to dance as an integrative art form in the United States.

He has written theater reviews for the Journal since 2000. He has attended theater all over the world including Shakespeare productions in Russia, South Africa, Denmark, and Poland. He has also served as literary advisor for two professional theater companies and written performance reviews for Shakespeare Quarterly.

Gaines has taken two years of acting with Paul Ford and appeared in small parts in three plays at the Albuquerque Little Theater. He believes that he is probably a better reviewer than actor.

She has also been a music lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates and a music critic and arts writer for The Washington Post. She was director of the Levine School of Music, one of the country’s largest community music schools, in Washington, D. C. 1980-1993.

She and her husband moved to Corrales, New Mexico in July 1993. Also a poet, her fifth collection, “Einstein in New Mexico,” was published in 2002.

A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, Greenberg has been performing and studying drama for most of her life. She is thrilled to have this opportunity to review for the Journal.

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