Thurs. 6/14 10a: Two late 19th Century musical melodramas by Richard Strauss, "The Castle By the Sea" and "Enoch Arden," will be given a rare performance on June 24 at Albuquerque's National Hispanic Cultural Center. Host Spencer Beckwith talks with pianist Douglas Riva, who will be performing the works with performance artist Patricio Tlacaelel Trujillo y Fuentes.
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.