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Violinist Cármelo de los Santos

Fri. 1/24 10a:  On January 25 and 26, the Santa Fe Pro Musica celebrates its annual Classical Weekend at the Lensic Performing Arts Center with the Beethoven Symphony No. 1 and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.  New Mexico violinist Cármelo de los Santos is the Classical Weekend's guest soloist for Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.  Cármelo joins Spencer Beckwith for a preview.

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.