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Schwartz, David

New Mexico Music Commission Foundation

David Schwartz ~ President

David Schwartz

Music Background

  • Recording Engineer: Wally Heider Recording (San Francisco)
  • Acoustical Engineer: Bolt Beranek and Newman

Administrative Background

  • Founder/Editor-in-Chief: Mix Magazine
  • Founder/Producer: Technical Excellence and Creativity (TEC) Awards
  • Producer: Pro Audio Education, National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)
  • President: Mix Publications, Inc.
  • Board of Governors: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys)
  • Director of Industry Relations: Expression College for Digital Arts
  • Board Chair: Music in Schools Today (San Francisco)
  • Board of Advisors: Warehouse 21 (Santa Fe)
  • President: New Mexico Music Commission Foundation
  • Chair: New Mexico Music Commission
  • Executive Producer: Platinum Music Awards show

Education

MBA incl. Music Production
Indiana University

BSIE Industrial Engineering
Purdue University

Hometown

tba

Current Residence

Santa Fe, Santa Fe County

Foundation Involvement

2012-2013; 2016-present

Bio

Schwartz was appointed Chair of the New Mexico Music Commission by Governor Susana Martinez August 2013. He served in that role until November 2016, when he elected to resign in order to head up the New Mexico Music Commission Foundation.

David brings a wealth of entrepreneurial development experience and creative vision into providing executive management for projects ranging from publishing ventures, to business development, event presentations, to music and film productions.

His current projects include producing the professional audio industry’s principal awards show, the TEC Awards, as well as the professional audio education track for the world’s largest professional music trade show, NAMM.

A leader in music and audio publishing, David is best known as founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Mix Magazine, the recording industry’s international trade magazine. During his 18-years of leadership, Mix Publications, Inc. became a leading publishing company that operated two magazines, Mix and Electronic Musician, a book publishing division and an event production unit.

Schwartz has a background in acoustical and audio engineering, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA from Indiana University. In 1994 he received the Most Valuable Person Award from the San Francisco Grammy chapter for his contributions to the Bay Area music community. In January, 2015, David was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association of Music Merchants.

Creative Examples

Interview with NAMM’s Oral History Program

Interview with NAMM’s TEC Awards

 

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Stephenson, Claude

Claude Stephenson

Claude Stephenson 2Education

BUS, University Studies 1985
University of New Mexico

MBA, Business Admin 1987
University of New Mexico

PhD, American Studies 2001
University of New Mexico

Music Background

  • Award-winning mandolinist with Big River boys, Sons of Rodan, and Elliott’s Ramblers
  • Guitarist and violinist with numerous groups
  • Producer KUNM-FM, Only the Radio 1979-1983
  • Producer KUNM-FM, Live Variety Show 1989-1991
  • Radio DJ, Folk Music USA and Folk Routes 1983-present

Administrative Background

  • State Folkorist emeritus, State of New Mexico 1991-2014
  • Folk Arts Coordinator, New Mexico Arts 1991-2014
  • Director, New Mexico Music Commission 2011-2014

City of Residence

Albuquerque’s South Valley

Commission term

expired May 6, 2016 ~ continues to serve until resignation or termination by the governor

Bio

Stephenson has been a working musician all of his adult life and is an award-winning mandolinist who played with seminal southwest bluegrass groups the Big River Boys, the Sons of Rodan, and Elliott’s Ramblers. In addition to mandolin, he has played and recorded acoustic and electric guitar and violin with more bands than there is room to list here. He produced the live radio programs Only the Radio (1979-1983) and the Live Variety Show (1989-1991) at KUNM-FM in Albuquerque promoting New Mexican musicians and has been a KUNM DJ producing Folk Music USA and Folk Routes since 1983.

Claude was the New Mexico State Folklorist and Folk Arts Coordinator at New Mexico Arts from 1991 to 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of New Mexico in 2001 and wrote his dissertation on the music of Matachines dance groups of New Mexico. He plays violin with the Bernalillo Matachines.

Now semi-retired, when not playing music, Claude and his wife of thirty-eight years, Zoe Economou, manage EcoStep Farm in the South Valley growing and selling unconventionally grown vegetables and eggs at local grower’s markets.

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Stoddard, Daniel

Daniel J. Stoddard

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Education

  • United States Coast Guard (1976 – 1980)
  • International Economic Development Council
  • Associates of Arts Degree – Liberal Arts (2003-2006)
  • Leadership New Mexico (2008)

Music Background

  • Event Chair, Clovis Music Festival

Administrative Background

  • Senior Community Services, Inc., Owner and President (2008, 2016)
  • New Mexico Veterans Hope Inn, Project for Homeless Vets (2011- present)
  • Curry County, Commissioner (2008-2012)
  • City of Clovis, Commissioner (2010-2014)
  • Eastern New Mexico Area Workforce Development Board (2008 – 2010)
  • New Mexico Association of Counties, Board of Directors (2009 – 2012)
  • New Mexico Local and State Government Program, Chairman (2012 & 2013)
  • Commissioner of Eastern Regional Housing Authority (2014 – present)

City of Residence

Rio Rancho (previous resident of Clovis)

Commission term

expired May 6, 2017 ~ continues to serve until resignation or termination by the governor

Bio

Dan Stoddard has been an active participant in the life of his community, with a particular passion for the diverse music of New Mexico. As the Chair of the Clovis Music Festival from 2004 -2009, Dan brought his extensive business and leadership skills to expand the yearly festival, and was instrumental in making it the premier festival for the matchless Clovis Seventh Street sound. During the course of his leadership, attendance for the three day event grew from 700 per night, to over 2500 a night, with visitors hailing from all parts of the world.

In addition to his various volunteer roles and community service in state and local government and economic development, Dan worked relentlessly as an executive board member of the Clovis Chamber of Commerce’s to preserve and promote the legend of Norman and Vi Petty Studio. Dan has served as the Vice-President of Clovis Chamber of Tourism and Music Festival, Badlands Chair, New Mexico Municipal League Board, and is a Leadership New Mexico Alumni. Dan is honored to serve on the Board of the State of New Mexico Music Commission, continuing his tradition of supporting and promoting the divergent and exceptional musicians and music of New Mexico.

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1998 – Albuquerque – Weird Al Yankovic

Songs About New Mexico: Albuquerque

written and performed by Weird Al Yankovic (1998)

“Albuquerque” is the last song of Weird Al’s Running with Scissors album. At 11 minutes and 22 seconds, it is the longest song Yankovic has ever released on any of his official studio albums.

With the exception of the choruses and occasional bridges, the track is mostly a spoken word narration about Yankovic’s made-up life in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after winning a first-class one-way airplane ticket to the city. According to Yankovic, the song is in the style of the “hard-driving rock narrative” of artists like The Rugburns, Mojo Nixon and George Thorogood.

Lyrics

Way back when I was just a little bitty boy
Living in a box
Under the stairs
In the corner of the basement
In the house half a block down the street from Jerry’s Bait Shop
You know the place

Well anyway,
Back then life was going swell
And everything was just peachy!

Except of course for the undeniable fact
That every single morning
My mother would make me a big ol’ bowl of
Sauer kraut for breakfast

Dawww
Big bowl of sauer kraut!
Every single mornin’!
It was driving me crazy!
And I said to my mom,
I said, “Hey, mom, what’s up with all the sauerkraut?”

And my dear, sweet mother,
She just looked at me like a cow looks
At an oncoming train
And she leaned right down next to me
And she said, “IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!”

And then she tied me to the wall
And stuck a funnel in my mouth
And force fed me nothing but sauer kraut
Until I was twenty-six and a half years old

That’s when I swore that someday,
Someday I would get outta that basement
And travel to a magical, far away place,
Where the sun is always shining
And the air smells like warm root beer,
And the towels are oh so fluffy!

Where the shriners and the lepers
Play their ukuleles all day long
And anyone on the street
Will gladly shave your back for a nickel!

Wacka wacka, doo doo, yeah!

Well, let me tell you, people,
It wasn’t long at all before my dream came true
Because the very next day,
A local radio station had this contest
To see who could correctly guess the number
Of molecules in Leonard Nimoy’s butt

I was off by three, but I still won the grand prize
That’s right, a first class, one-way ticket
To Albuquerque!
Albuquerque!

Oh yeah
You know, I’d never been
On a real airplane before
And I gotta tell ya
It was really great

Except that I had to sit
Between two large Albanian women
With excruciatingly severe body odor
And the little kid in back of me
Kept throwin’ up the whole time
The flight attendants ran out of
Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts
And the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore
And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out
And we went into a tailspin
And crashed into a hillside
And the plane exploded in a giant fireball
And everybody died!
Except for me. You know why?

‘Cause I had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position
Had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position
Had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position

Ah-ha-ha-ha!
Ah-ha-ha!
Aahhh
So I crawled from the twisted, burnin’, wreckage
I crawled on my hands and knees
For three full days
Draggin’ along my big leather suitcase
And my garment bag
And my tenor saxophone
And my 12-pound bowlin’ ball
And my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel!

But finally I arrived at the world famous
Albuquerque Holiday Inn!
Where the towels are oh so fluffy!
And you can eat your soup
Right out of the ashtrays if you wanna
It’s okay, they’re clean!

Well, I checked into my room,
And I turned down the A/C,
And I turned on the SpectraVision,
And I’m just about to eat
That little chocolate mint on my pillow
That I love so very, very much,
When suddenly there’s a knock on the door

Well, now, who could that be?
I say, “Who is it?” No answer
“Who is it?” There’s no answer
“WHO IS IT!?” They’re not sayin’ anything

So finally, I go over
And I open the door,
And just as I suspected,
It’s some big, fat hermaphrodite
With a flock of seagulls, haircut,
And only one nostril
Oh, man, I hate it when I’m right!

So, anyway,
He bursts into my room,
And he grabs my lucky snorkel,
And I’m like, “Hey, you can’t have that!
That snorkel’s been just like a snorkel to me!”

And he’s like, “Tough!”
And I’m like, “Give it!”
And he’s like, “Make me!”
And I’m like, “‘Kay!”

So I grabbed his leg
And he grabbed my esophagus
And I bit off his ear
And he chewed off my eyebrows
And I took out his appendix
And he gave me a colonic irrigation
Yes indeed-y, you better believe it!

And somehow in the middle of it all
The phone got knocked off the hook
And twenty seconds later,
I heard a familiar voice
And you know what it said?
I’ll tell ya what it said!

It said, “If you’d like to make a call,
Please hang up and try again
If you need help,
Hang up and then dial your operator
If you’d like to make a call
Please hang up and try again.
If you need help
Hang up and then dial your operator
In Albuquerque!”
Albuquerque!

Well, to cut a long story short,
He got away with my snorkel
But I made a solemn vow
Right then and there
That I would not rest,
I would not sleep for an instant,
Until the one-nostrilled man
Was brought to justice
But first, I decided to buy some donuts

So I got in my car
And I drove over to the donut shop
And I walked on up to the guy behind the counter
And he says, “Yeah, whaddaya want?”

I said, “You got any glazed donuts?”
He said, “Nah, we’re outta glazed donuts.”
I say, “Well, you got any jelly donuts?”
He said, “No, we’re outta jelly donuts.”
I said, “You got any Bavarian cream-filled donuts?”
He said, “No, we’re outta Bavarian cream-filled donuts.”
I said, “You got any cinnamon rolls?”
He said, “No, we’re outta cinnamon rolls!”
I said, “You got any apple fritters?”
He said, “No, we’re outta apple fritters!”
I said, “You got any bear claws?”
He said, “Wait a minute, I’ll go check.”

“Naw, we’re outta bear claws!”

I said, “Well, in that case
In that case, what do you have?”
He says, “All I got right now
Is this box of one dozen
Starving crazed weasels.”
I said, “Okay, I’ll take that.”

So he hands me the box,
And I open up the lid,
And the weasels jump out
And they immediately latch onto my face
And start bitin’ me all over

Oh, man, they were just goin’ nuts!
They were tearin’ me apart!
You know,
I think it was just about that time
that a little ditty started goin’ through my head
I believe it went a little somethin’ like this:

DOH!
Get ’em off me! Get ’em off me!
Ohhh!
No, get ’em off, get ’em off!
Oh, oh God, oh God!
Oh, get ’em off me! Oh, oh God!
Ah, aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

I ran out into the street
With these flesh-eating weasels
All over my face,
Wavin’ my arms all around
And just runnin’, runnin’, runnin’,
Like a constipated wiener dog

And as luck would have it,
That’s exactly when I ran into
The girl of my dreams
Her name was Zelda

She was a caligraphy enthusiast,
With a slight overbite,
And hair the color of strained peaches

I’ll never forget
The very first thing
She said to me
She said, “Hey,
You’ve got weasels on your face.”

That’s when I knew it was true love

We were inseparable after that
Aw, we ate together
We bathed together
We even shared the same piece
Of mint-flavored dental floss
The world was our burrito

So we got married,
And we bought us a house
And had two beautiful children,
Nathaniel and Superfly
Oh we were so very, very, very happy, oh yeah

But then, one fateful night,
Zelda said to me, she said,
“Sweetie pumpkin?
Do you wanna join the Columbia Record Club?”
I said, “Woah! Hold on now, baby!
I’m just not ready for that kind of a commitment!”

So we broke up,
And I never saw her again
But that’s just the way things go
In Albuquerque!
Albuquerque!

Anyway, things really started
Lookin’ up for me,
Because about a week later
I finally achieved my lifelong dream
That’s right, I got me a part-time job
At the Sizzler!

I even made employee of the month
After I put out that grease fire
With my face!

Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous
Of me after that
I was gettin’ a lot of attitude.

Okay, like one time,
I was out in the parkin’ lot,
Tryin’ to remove my excess earwax
With a golf pencil,
When I see this guy Marty
Tryin’ to carry a big ol’ sofa
Up the stairs all by himself.

So I-I say to him,
I say, “Hey, you want me to help you with that?”
And Marty, he just rolls his eyes
And goes, “No, I want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw!”

So I did.

And then he gets all indignant on me
He’s like, “Hey, man, I was just being sarcastic!”
Well, that’s just great.
How was I supposed to know that?
I’m not a mind reader,
For cryin’ out loud

Besides, now he’s got
A really cute nickname – Torso-Boy!
So what’s he complaining about?

Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote
This guy comes up to me on the street
And he tells me he hasn’t had a bite
In three days

Well, I knew what he meant,
But just to be funny,
I took a big bite
Out of his jugular vein
And he’s yelling and screaming
And bleeding all over,
And I’m like, “Hey, come on, don’tcha get it?”
But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk,
Bleeding and screaming, “Aaaahhhh! AaaaahhhhOhhhhh! Aaaaahhhh!”
You know, completely missing
The irony of the whole situation
Man, some people just can’t take a joke, you know?

Anyway, um…
Where was I?
Kinda lost my train of thought.

Uh, well, uh, OK, anyway,
I-I know it’s kind of a roundabout way
Of saying it, but,
I guess the whole point I’m tryin’ to make here is

I HATE SAUERKRAUT!

That’s all I’m really tryin’ to say
And, by the way,
if one day you happen to wake up
And find yourself in an existential quandry,
Full of loathing and self-doubt
And wracked with the pain and isolation
Of your pitiful meaningless existence,
At least you can take a small bit of comfort
In knowing that somewhere out there in this
Crazy ol’ mixed-up universe of ours,
There’s still a little place
Called Albuquerque!
Albuquerque!
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)
Albuquerque! (Albuquerque!)

I said A! (A!)
L! (L!)
B! (B!)
U! (U!)
… querque! (querque!)

(Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque)
(Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque)
(Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque)
Al…buquerque!
*burp*

for more information: weirdal.com

source: wikipedia.org

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AlHaj, Rahim

Rahim AlHaj ~ Albuquerque

rahimGenre: Worldbeat

AlHaj, virtuoso Oud musician and composer, was born in Baghdad, Iraq (1967) and began playing the oud (the grandfather of all stringed instruments) at age nine. Early on, it was evident that he had a remarkable talent for playing the oud. Mr. Alhaj studied under the renowned Munir Bashir, considered by many to be the greatest oud player ever, and Salim Abdul Kareem, at the Institute of Music in Baghdad, Iraq. Mr. AlHaj won various awards at the Conservatory and graduated in 1990 with a diploma in composition. He holds a degree in Arabic Literature from Mustunsariya University in Baghdad. In 1991, after the first Gulf War, Mr. AlHaj was forced to leave Iraq due to his activism against the Saddam Hussein regime and began his life in Jordan and Syria. He moved to the US in 2000 as a political refugee and has resided in Albuquerque, NM ever since. Rahim became a US citizen on August 15, 2008.

Rahim has performed around the world and is considered one of the finest oud players in the world. He has won many accolades and awards including two Grammy nominations. Rahim has recorded and performed with other master musicians of varied backgrounds and styles including genre-busting American guitarist Bill Frisell, modern accordion innovator Guy Klucevsek, Indian sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and indy-rock pioneers REM. He has composed pieces for solo oud, string quartet, symphony and beyond. Rahim’s music delicately combines traditional Iraqi maqams with contemporary styling and influence. His compositions evoke the experience of exile from his homeland and of new beginnings in his adopted country. His pieces establish new concepts without altering the foundation of the traditional “Iraqi School of Oud”.

Rahim has released seven CDs. His March 2009 release, Ancient Sounds (UR Music), a duet recording with Amjad Ali Khan, was nominated for a 2010 Grammy® in the Best Traditional World Music Recording category. In November of 2009 he released a special recording Under The Rose with Ottmar Liebert, Jon Gagan and Barrett Martin, with all net proceeds benefitting Direct Aid Iraq. Home Again (UR Music, 2008), is a tour de force of touching and evocative original compositions portraying his trip to Iraq after 13 years in exile. When the Soul is Settled: Music of Iraq (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) was also nominated for a Grammy® in 2008. His earlier recordings include Friendship: Oud and Sadaqa String Quartet (2005), a unique East and West musical collaboration, The Second Baghdad (2002) and the live CD Iraqi Music in a Time of War”, (2003). Rahim is featured in the 2009 documentary film on Smithsonian Folkways Records . Capping off an artistically fruitful 2009, Rahim was awarded the prestigious US Artist Ford Fellowship Grant on December 14th. Look for a new recording Little Earth: Voices For Peace in 2010. The project features Rahim’s original composition in collaboration with the likes of Frisell, Klucevsek, REM, Maria De Barros, Liu Fang, Robert Mirabal, Hossein Omoumi, The Santa Fe Guitar Quartet and many more including, of course, Little Earth Orchestra.

Rahim is a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship recipient.

above: “Taqsim Maqam Sharqi Rast” by Rahim Alhaj, with Souhail Kaspar (eMusic)

for more information: rahimalhaj.com

source: rahimalhaj.com

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New Mexico Music Commission to Meet in Santa Fe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 2, 2015

Contact: David Schwartz, Chair, New Mexico Music Commission
Phone: 415-730-7305
dsmedia@earthlink.net

New Mexico Music Commission to Meet in Santa Fe
Seeks Public Input on Strategic Plan
September 8, 2015

Santa Fe – The New Mexico Music Commission will hold a meeting on Tuesday, September 8, from 10 am to noon, in the Meem Auditorium at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill, 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87504. The meeting is open to the public.

Copies of the agenda will be available at least 72 hours prior to the meeting at the Commission’s website, www.newmexicomusic.org. Copies of the agenda also may be obtained by contacting New Mexico Arts at 505-827-6490; or statewide: 800-879-4278; or fax: 505-827-6043.

The public is invited to an open discussion about the commission’s Strategic Plan, which will take place at noon on September 8th immediately following the regularly scheduled commission meeting in the Meem Auditorium. New Mexico citizens are optionally invited to give virtual feedback by filling out a brief anonymous online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3HJ79R3

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The New Mexico Music Commission is an advisory body administratively attached to New Mexico Arts, the State Arts agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs. The commission is made up of fifteen Governor-appointed volunteers who are specialists and leaders in the state’s diverse music industry. Their mission is to stimulate opportunities for musicians, music organizations, and other groups for activities or projects, to provide musical services and support to the state, to maintain and encourage musical excellence, and to promote awareness of and access to the music industry for all of the people of New Mexico.

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new mexico arts, department of cultural affairs
407 galisteo street, suite 270, santa fe nm 87501
505.827.6454 (phone) 1.800.879.4278 (instate) 505.827.6043 (fax)
www.newmexicomusic.org

New Mexico Music Commission Meeting

Meem Auditorium, Laboratory of Anthropology
Museum Hill off Old Santa Fe Trail
710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87504
September 8, 2015, 10:00am—12:00pm

Agenda

  • Welcome – David Schwartz
  • Commission Introductions
  • Public Introductions and Comments
  • Approval of the Agenda: ACTION
  • Approval of the 07-14-15 Minutes: ACTION

New Business

  • Old Town Farm Albuquerque presentation – Larry Tonning
  • Santa Fe Bandstand presentation – Michael Dellheim
  • Other new business

Old Business

  • Cultural Collaborative project update – Felicity Broenan
  • Metropolitan Opera Audition Update – Renato Estacio
  • Warehouse 21 co-developments: Art2Art, radio meeting – David Schwartz
  • Strategic Plan progress report – Joe Brown/David Schwartz

Other old business

  • Final 2015 Commission Meeting date: November 10, 10am-12pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, History & Literary Arts Building, Salon Ortega

Public Comments

Motion to adjourn

Contact: David Schwartz
415-730-7305
dsmedia@earthlink.net