Editing Las Cruces, New Mexico (section)

===Las Cruces Symphony===
[[File:Dona Ana County New Mexico Courthouse (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[[Doña Ana County]] courthouse]]
The Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra is an 80-member [[orchestra]], conducted by Dr. Ming Luke.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lascrucessymphony.com/meet-your-conductor-candidates/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908033107/http://www.lascrucessymphony.com/lcso.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 8, 2007 |title=Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra at New Mexico State University |access-date=October 10, 2008 |publisher=Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra }}</ref> The orchestra consists of 47% students, 17% NMSU faculty, 20% other local musicians, and 16% professionals from outside Las Cruces.<ref name="LCSN LCSO 2008">{{cite news |first=S. Derrickson |last=Moore |title=Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra plans spectacular season  |work=Las Cruces Sun-News |issn=1081-2172 |date=May 2, 2008 }}</ref> The venue of the orchestra is the NMSU Music Center Recital Hall.<ref name="LCSN LCSO 2008" /> The orchestra received attention with the world premiere of [[Bill McGlaughlin]]'s ''Remembering Icarus'', a tribute to local radio pioneer Ralph Willis Goddard, performed by the LCSO on October 1, 2005.<ref>
{{cite news |first=S. Derrickson |last=Moore |title=Symphony to honor radio pioneer |work=Las Cruces Sun-News |issn=1081-2172 |date=September 30, 2005  }}
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The performance was taped and broadcast nationally on [[NPR]]'s ''[[Performance Today]]'' on December 9, 2005<ref>
{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5046198 |title=McGlaughlin's 'Remembering Icarus' |newspaper=NPR.org |access-date=October 10, 2008 |publisher=National Public Radio |date=December 9, 2005 }}
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and on July 4, 2007, on ''Performance Today'' and on [[Sirius Satellite Radio]].<ref>
{{cite news |title=In 2007, the Las Cruces arts and entertainment scene was... HOT, HOT, HOT |work=Las Cruces Sun-News |url=http://www.lcsun-news.com/yearinreview/ci_7830764 |access-date=October 10, 2008 |issn=1081-2172 |date=December 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202215838/http://www.lcsun-news.com/yearinreview/ci_7830764 |archive-date=December 2, 2008 }}
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