Composer

TSO principal flute Alexander Lipay solos on Ibert’s flute concerto on a concert of impressionistic journeys from France to Latin America.

Debussy’s charming Suite bergamasque is most well-known for its popular third movement, “Clair de lune,” while Jacques Ibert’s effervescent concerto is a supremely demanding showpiece of the flute concerto repertoire, coaxing brilliant sounds and melodies from the soloist and orchestra.

EPSG:4326

Debussy and Piazzolla

Catalina Foothills High School

Rachmaninoff’s unforgettable melodies, emotional depth, technical brilliance, and rich orchestral textures are instantly recognizable and stay with the listener long after the music ends. His Second Piano Concerto expresses a wide range of emotions, from passionate intensity to melancholic longing, often reflecting the composer’s own personal experiences. The melody in the second movement inspired Eric Carmen’s bestselling tune “All By Myself.”

Echoes of Heritage

Maryland Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

Embark on an exhilarating journey through the heart of Latin America as the Minería Symphony Orchestra of Mexico makes its Orange County debut under the dynamic direction of Carlos Miguel Prieto in a spectacular night of vibrant, passionate music.

Minería Symphony Orchestra of Mexico

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

One of the audience favorites from UMS’s 23/24 season was the UMS debut of México’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, led by the dynamic conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. The sheer exuberance and palpable joy from the musicians were felt throughout the audience, which remained on its feet long after the performance ended, cheering for more.

Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería

University of Michigan

Mexico’s leading orchestra, the Sinfónica de Minería, makes its Symphony Center debut led by Carlos Miguel Prieto, a conductor praised for his “extraordinary ferocity and drive” (The Guardian). Revueltas’ vibrant portrait of Mexico’s pre-Columbian heritage shares a program with concertos by Haydn and Paquito D’Rivera, performed by the esteemed Venezuelan trumpeter Pacho Flores.

Sinfónica de Minería

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Community Church of Vero Beach

Acclaimed conductor Dalia Stasevska returns to Severance for two evocative musical depictions of the American continent. Informed by African American spirituals, Indigenous melodies, and Czech folk songs, Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony proceeds from one memorable tune to another, including its exquisitely yearning slow movement and rollicking finale. Revueltas’s cinematic La Noche de los Mayas takes us farther south for a sonic feast of Yucatán rhythms.

Dvořák’s New World Symphony

Severance Music Center

Beethoven and Blue Jeans

Robinson Center

Celebrate Día de Muertos with the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony in a night filled with vibrant rhythms, colorful melodies, and music that honors life, memory, and tradition.

Orchestra Concert 2 - Day of the Dead

First Church OKC

The London Sinfonietta’s programme for this year’s Cervantino Festival traces a bold arc through the music of the 20th and 21st centuries - music that pushes boundaries, forever testing the limits of sound and imagination.

Cervantino Festival

Teatro Juárez

Celebrate Hispanic heritage month with a FREE performance at Miller Outdoor Theatre. Led by Music Director Juraj Valčuha, the orchestra performs dance-inspired pieces by Revueltas and Ginastera. Bernstein’s beloved West Side Story is brought to life in all its rhythmic flair, and Ravel’s sultry Bólero caps off this celebration of music and community.

Valčuha Conducts West Side Story

Miller Outdoor Theatre

2025 SPO Rush Hour Talk Concert III: América Latina, pasión en el ritmo

Namdaemoon Presbyterian Church

Seoul Anglican Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Nicholas

As the Utah Symphony hosts the League of American Orchestras’ annual conference and is joined in the audience by orchestra leaders from across the county, witness our musicians and Music Director Emeritus Thierry Fischer intertwine works by composers of multifaceted backgrounds into an enchanting tapestry that reverberates with the richness of diverse heritages.

Korngold's Violin Concerto

Salt Palace Convention Center

2023 Latin GRAMMY triple-nominee Pacho Flores makes his NHSO debut with Daniel Freiberg’s new Trumpet Concerto, and Perry So leads the NHSO in music by Arturo Márquez, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Silvestre Revueltas. 

Danzas Sinfónicas

Yale University

Experience the power and drama of Carl Orff's choral masterpiece, "Carmina Burana," brought to life by the Grand Rapids Symphony under the baton of the innovative conductor David Robertson. This captivating performance will also feature the talents of soprano Meechot Marrero, tenor Ben Gulley, baritone Blake Denson, and the Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus directed by Pearl Shangkuan. The concert will open with Revueltas's "La noche de los mayas," setting the stage for the main event, "Carmina Burana," a work celebrated for its raw energy, powerful rhythms, and vivid storytelling through medieval texts. The iconic opening chorus, "O Fortuna," is known worldwide, promising an exhilarating journey through the joys and sorrows of life.

**What to Expect:**
Prepare for an unforgettable evening as our chorus shines in one of the most famous choral works ever written. "O Fortuna" has captivated audiences across the globe, featured in TV, movies, and commercials, showcasing the universal appeal of this dramatic piece. David Robertson, renowned for his innovative approach, promises to deliver a performance that highlights the lush harmonies and contrasting moods of Orff's celebrated composition.

**Performance Dates and Times:**
- Friday, April 25, 2025, at 7:30 PM
- Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 7:30 PM

**Location:**
DeVos Performance Hall

**Tickets:**
Tickets for this must-see event are available for purchase. Don't miss your chance to be part of this musical journey that explores the essence of fate, fortune, and the human experience.

**Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:**
This concert series is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors, including the Richard and Helen DeVos Series Sponsor, the Edith I. Blodgett Guest Artist Fund, and Pearl Shangkuan, who occupies the Covenant Chair.

Join us for a night of unforgettable music and storytelling with the Grand Rapids Symphony's presentation of "Carmina Burana."

Carmina Burana

DeVos Performance Hall

Prepare to be swept off your feet as Dalia Stasevska returns to Seattle with a program celebrating the rhythms of Mexico and Argentina. The Night of the Maya pulsates with a huge percussion section, traditional instruments and a full orchestra. Originally composing for a 1939 film score, Revueltas created an orchestral suite to give this music a life in the concert hall. Malambo illustrates the infectious rhythms of Argentinian gaucho dance traditions. And beloved collaborator Augustin Hadelich brings Prokofiev at his most wickedly daring with the First Violin Concerto — a concert that could very well raise the roof of Benaroya Hall.

Augustin Hadelich Plays Prokofiev

Benaroya Hall

Tania Kross sings arias from the first opera in Papiamentu and cabaret songs about Amsterdam. Bas Wiegers conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in works by Revueltas and Verbey and a world premiere by Calliope Tsoupaki.

Amsterdam 750

The Concertgebouw

“Fiesta!” is a vibrant celebration of the rich musical heritage of Mexico, presented by the San José Wind Symphony under the baton of Dr. David Vickerman. This exciting concert features an array of music inspired by Mexican culture, including works by renowned Mexican composers such as Silvestre Revueltas, Nubia Jaime-Donjuan, Genaro Codina, and Juan Pablo Contreras. Experience the lively rhythms, colorful melodies, and deep emotions that define the spirit of Mexico, as the ensemble takes you on a journey through this diverse and dynamic musical landscape. Join us for a festive afternoon filled with the sounds and stories of Mexico.

Fiesta!

Saratoga High School

The New York-born Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has created a cultural beacon with the Paax GNP festival on the Caribbean coast of Yucatán. The aim is to celebrate the diversity of Mexican music and to anchor the country's rich music scene more firmly in the international consciousness. This is an aim that is also reflected in the program for the 7th Philharmonic Concert, which also draws cultural links to the former colonial power Spain. The 1939 film "La noche de los mayas" is about a Mayan tribe and its encounter with the "modern" world, for which Silvestre Revueltas composed rhythmic-dynamic music. And rhythm also plays a central role in Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie espagnole", the movements of which have various Spanish dances in their titles, including the famous Habanera, while Manuel de Falla creates an impressionistic mood picture of "Nights in Spanish Gardens" with folkloristic elements and Andalusian dances. Also taking part is the jazz pianist and composer Thomas Enhco, a festival companion of Alondra de la Parra and Duisburg debutant. Jazz influences and Enhco's experience with film music can be heard in the "Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra".

Transatlantic Sound Waves

Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

### Event Description: Susie Park Plays Ortiz with the Minnesota Orchestra

**Event Title:** Susie Park Plays Ortiz - Minnesota Orchestra

**Dates:** 
- Friday, February 14, 2025
- Saturday, February 15, 2025

**Venue:** Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403

**Duration:** 2 hours, including intermission

**Event Overview:**
Experience an evening of captivating music as the Minnesota Orchestra, under the baton of Chilean-born conductor Paolo Bortolameolli, presents a program pulsing with new energy. This concert features three pieces performed by the Minnesota Orchestra for the first time, promising an unforgettable night of musical exploration.

**Program:**
1. **Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes** - Introduced by Paolo Bortolameolli, this evocative piece sets the tone for the evening.
2. **Gabriela Ortiz’s Altar de Cuerda for Violin and Orchestra** - Performed by the Minnesota Orchestra’s First Associate Concertmaster, Susie Park, this blazing violin concerto is sure to mesmerize.
3. **Silvestre Revueltas’ La noche de los mayas** - A 1930s film score drawn from Mayan folklore, reminiscent of Igor Stravinsky’s style.

**Featured Artists:**
- **Paolo Bortolameolli, Conductor:** A prolific force on the podium, Bortolameolli is known for his dynamic leadership and advocacy for the arts. He holds several prestigious positions, including music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil in Chile and Sinfónica Azteca in Mexico.
- **Susie Park, Violin:** Australian-born Susie Park has been the Minnesota Orchestra’s First Associate Concertmaster since 2015. She has performed with numerous major orchestras worldwide and was a member of the Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio.

**Additional Information:**
- **Tickets:** Available now as part of a package. Save up to 15% and receive subscriber perks when you purchase tickets for three or more concerts. Individual tickets go on sale on July 29.
- **Pre-concert Activities:** Enhance your concert experience with pre-concert activities, valet parking, and pre-order beverages.
- **Accessibility Services:** Orchestra Hall offers a range of accessibility services, including armless and bariatric chairs, assistive listening devices, large-print programs, noise-canceling headphones, service animal accommodations, and wheelchair-accessible seating.

**Presented by:** Ameriprise Financial

**Plan Your Visit:**
- **Directions & Parking:** Convenient parking is available just steps away from Orchestra Hall in the city-owned and skyway-connected 11th and Marquette Ramp.
- **Minnesota Orchestra Mobile App:** Download the app to pre-order intermission drinks, scan your ticket for entry, and access exclusive deals.

Join us for an evening of extraordinary music and let the Minnesota Orchestra take you on a journey through evocative and powerful compositions.

Susie Park Plays Ortiz

Minnesota Orchestra

Experience an exhilarating night with the Philharmonic! Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Latin music, from the sounds of Huapango meaning “on top of the wood” a Mexican dance technique and the energy of Sensemayá as the ritualistic poem pitting life against death in this ceremonial work. Prepare to dance the night away with the sounds of Viva La Fiesta!

Viva La Fiesta

Colonial Plaza

This January, Conductor Emerita Gisèle Ben-Dor leads Pro Arte through an adventure of music and storytelling that will thrill your whole family.  In The Story of Babar, the tale of a little elephant’s journey from orphan to king is accompanied at every turn by Francis Poulenc’s picturesque music. Our young soloist shines in the irrepressible finale of Joseph Haydn’s first cello concerto. Sensemayá, by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, is a spellbinding depiction of an Afro-Caribbean ceremony in which a ritualist must subdue a snake. Our program ends with the riotous Toy Symphony, in which playful instruments like a triangle, a rattle, and a cuckoo whistle all try to steal the spotlight.

Musical Super Heroes

Newton City Hall

"new World"

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

Audiences rise to their feet, dancing to the rhythms of Latin America in Platypus Theatre’s most interactive show to date. Presto, Mambo! gives young audiences the unique opportunity to experience the NAC Orchestra thrumming to the irresistible beat of the Latin sound.

Presto, Mambo!

National Arts Centre

Long admired for her fiery precision and her easy lyricism, violin virtuoso and beloved artist, Elly Toyoda will join the PVSO performing Saint-Saens’s acclaimed Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. Setting the stage is Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas’s iconic symphonic poem Janitzio, which describes Janitzio Island in Lake Pátzcuaro, before closing with Mozart’s ever-jubilant Jupiter Symphony.

Jubilant Caprices

Belchertown High School

Embark on a soul-stirring journey with Berkeley Symphony’s Stories From Home. Silvestre Revueltas’ Redes Suite immerses you in the vibrant world of Mexican fishing communities, while Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, featuring acclaimed soprano soloist Lisa Delan, evokes nostalgic charm. Kris Bowers’ For a Younger Self invites introspection through Grammy-winning violinist Charles Yang’s enchanting and expressive musicianship. Experience the magical allure of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, a fusion of jazz, Latin rhythms, and classical motifs. Celebrate music’s power to unite and shape our collective stories.

Stories From Home

University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Event: Joseph Young

Cal Performances

PYP opens Season 101 with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s intensely emotional and melodic Violin Concerto, featuring PYP alumna Hanami Froom, violin.

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

The KSO celebrates the Mexican festival Day of the Dead. Audience/musician face-painting, masks, candles and a large public ofrenda add to the atmospheric, ominous opuses the KSO will perform a frightfully fun evening of classics, premieres and Hispanic favorites and culture.

Sinister Sonorities

Greaves Concert Hall

Gustavo Dudamel leads a festive exploration of Latin American music for Día de los Muertos with Villa-Lobos’ progressive tour de force and Gabriela Ortiz’s 2019 Yanga. Her work for orchestra, chorus, and percussion ensemble is characterized by its use of African instruments and colorful, multilayered rhythms. Ortiz says, “[Yanga] speaks to the greatness of humanity when in search of equality and the universal right to enjoy freedom to the fullest.” Revueltas’ film score La noche de los Mayas digs deeper into Mexico’s ancient culture brought into conversation with the modern world, bolting through thunderous, dynamic rhythms and a flute interlude based on a traditional Yucatan evening song. Within the music is what poet Octavio Paz describes as Revueltas’ “deep-felt but also joyful concern for man.”

Día de Los Muertos with Dudamel

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Music From Latin America- Family Concert

Highline Performing Art Center

Peabody Concert Orchestra

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Dancing in September! Join us for a sensational season premiere showcasing the rich tapestry of cultural diversity in music. The title “Reflect, Renew, Reimagine” is not just a nod to sustainability and progress, but also an invitation to celebrate a more inclusive and sustainable world.

Reflect, Renew, Reimagine

Central Presbyterian Church Denver

Sculpture Park

Mexican Concert

University Theater Center (CUT)

From pleasing to provocative, intellectual to insouciant, this program sheds light on the many facets of 20th-century Mexican and Argentinian classical compositions. Feel the passion and intensity of the tango in Piazzola’s renowned “Seasons”, juxtaposed with the exhilarating and profound string quartet “Música de Feria” by Revueltas. The program also features the graceful compositions of Manuel Ponce, offering a glimpse into the elegant charm of his musical creations. Works by 20th-century composers Alberto Ginastera (Argentina) and Mario Lavista (Mexico) top off an exciting and varied program.

Mexico and Argentina

Hanna Boys Center

Aaron Copland made four highly publicized government-sponsored trips to Latin America between 1941 and 1963. During these visits, he shared contemporary American concert music with Latin American audiences, including his own violin sonata, heard on tonight’s program. Back home, he drew US attention to the composers and musicians he met in Latin America, such as Heitor Villa-Lobos of Brazil and Silvestre Revueltas and Manuel Ponce of Mexico, all whom Copland knew personally and whose works are also featured. Another contemporary of Copland was the Black American composer William Grant Still, whose Panamanian Dances were inspired by a collection of Latin American folk songs. The history of Pan-American musical exchange predates Copland.

The Americas

Young Artist Orchestras 6

Guilford College

After a successful first collaboration last season, VMMF returns to the gorgeous patio of the La Luz Center in Sonoma for another Alfresco evening. Get together with two striking string quartets by early 20th Century Mexican composers Silvestre Revueltas and Miguel Bernal Jiménez. To close this concert, the vibrant and colorful sounds of local favorite and sibling trio Raiz del Real will bring the essence of Son Huasteco to life.

Alfresco 2

La Luz Center

Join us for a journey through Mexico that features striking chamber works, unconventional musical experiences, and the experimental song Preludio a Colón. 

Described by Kate Molleson as a 'confounding mix of absolutist, traditionalist, visionary and shameless revisionist', Carrillo never ceases to surprise, in his music as well as his words. 

Carrillo & Revueltas

Southbank Centre

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and conductor Ben Palmer for a slow travel journey around the world by foot, boat and train, Friday Night is Music Night style. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Friday Night is Music Night with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Maida Vale Studios

This major turning point is illustrated in this two-part program. First, her roots can be found in the works of South American composers and poets. Then, she tackles Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, the piece that helped make her famous when she conducted it at the final round of the 2021 Victoires de la Musique. 

Under Marcano’s Sun

Place des Arts

St. Joachim of Pointe-Claire Church

Cinco de Mayo served as an inspirational springboard for this unique concert celebrating both Spanish and Mexican music. The concert opens with José Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango, a lively and joyful tribute to the popular music of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Manuel de Falla’s gorgeously orchestrated Nights in the Gardens of Spain featuring the debut of young Mexican pianist Rachid Bernal will immerse us in Spanish Impressionism. Silvestre Revueltas is one of the giants among Mexican composers, and I am very excited to introduce to you his suite from the movie La Noche de Los Mayas, featuring a multimedia presentation of Mayan art. And finally, a great mariachi ensemble Mariachi Los Camperos will play selections of Mexican songs with the Madison Symphony. A truly unique concert designed to lift your spirits and bring my 30th anniversary celebration to a rousing and joyful finale.

Fiesta Finale

Overture Center for the Arts

Experience the enchanting melodies of The Glenwood Quartet at the Perelman Performing Arts Center on April 19, 2024. This remarkable evening, part of the Park Avenue Artists’ Spotlight series, promises to immerse you in the rich tapestry of the American Symphony Orchestra's spirit. The Glenwood Quartet, composed of ASO's own Cyrus Beroukhim and Philip Payton on violins, William Frampton on viola, and Alberto Parrini on cello, will celebrate the beauty of underperformed works alongside revered masterpieces. Since their formation in September 2020, the quartet has captivated audiences with performances in various outdoor venues, and they are now set to release their debut album featuring Dvorak’s American Quartet with Epidemic Classics.

This performance is not only a musical journey but also a testament to the quartet's dedication to bringing classical music to the forefront of cultural conversation. The program for the evening includes Silvestre Revueltas' "Música de Feria," Antonín Dvořák's "String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, American," and Manuel M. Ponce's "Estrellita," showcasing a blend of vibrant and soulful compositions that promise to leave you mesmerized.

This event is free and open to the public, offering a first-come, first-serve opportunity to witness the sublime artistry of The Glenwood Quartet with limited capacity. The ASO’s Chamber Series, including this performance, is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, highlighting the importance of arts and culture in our community.

Mark your calendars for April 19, 2024, at 5:45 PM at the Perelman Performing Arts Center for an evening of exquisite music that celebrates the legacy and future of the American Symphony Orchestra through the talents of The Glenwood Quartet.

The Glenwood Quartet at PAC

Perelman Performing Arts Center

Chamber Orchestra – Angel Gil-Ordoñez, guest conductor

Auer Hall

Gershwin’s jazzy musical postcard highlights this program of the Americas. From South America, dazzling works by Revueltas, Ginastera, and Moncayo’s rousing Huapango. And from the states, Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Leonard Bernstein’s dances from On the Town, plus Gershwin’s An American in Paris.

An American in Paris

Dominion Energy Center

Isabella Lippi Plays Mozart

Hemmens Auditorium

Oakland Winterfest: Aizuri Quartet - Metro Detroit Debut

Oakland University

Perspectives: Dalí Quartet

Cleveland Institute of Music

Reserve your seats for this performance today and enjoy unbeatable savings by subscribing to New World Symphony’s Saturday One or Sunday One series. Starting at just $20 a concert, both series feature illuminating performances with Stéphane Denève, Michael Tilson Thomas, Lina González-Granados, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, trumpeter Pacho Flores and 87 of the world’s best young musicians.

Carlos Miguel Prieto + Pacho Flores

New World Center

The MSO is delighted to welcome Mexican conductor Iván López-Reynoso for his U.S. symphonic debut! López-Reynoso conducts Ravel’s orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky’s impressionistic Pictures at an Exhibition, as well as Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, featuring López-Reynoso’s compatriot and “an imaginative interpreter with a powerful technique” (The New York Times), pianist Jorge Federico Osorio. The program opens with a suite from the 1936 film Redes (“Nets”) by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas.

Beethoven Piano & Pictures At An Exhibition

Warner Grand Theater

The Sphinx Virtuosi—the flagship ensemble of the Sphinx Organization, dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts—shares the stage with the Minnesota Orchestra in a program featuring Carlos Simon’s meditative Breathe and Angélica Negrón’s immersive Marejada.

The Sphinx Virtuosi

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

Juilliard Orchestra Conducted by Tito Muñoz

Lincoln Center

A grandiose and iconic evening led by internationally recognized conductor Tito Muñoz features virtuoso pianist Michelle Cann performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor.”

Beethoven’s Emperor

Omaha Performing Arts

Join us for a celebration of Latin American music and culture including lobby installations by local artists. Conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya with vocalist Edna Vázquez and Casa Círculo Cultural, the dynamic concert program features traditional music with contemporary works honoring the rich heritage of this ancient holiday. The event is curated by longtime collaborator Martha Rodríguez-Salazar.

Día de los Muertos

Davies Symphony Hall

Join in a celebration of Latin American music and culture including lobby installations by local artists. Conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya with vocalist Edna Vazquez and Casa Círculo Cultural, the dynamic concert program features traditional music and contemporary works that honor the rich heritage of this ancient holiday. The event is curated by longtime collaborator Martha Rodríguez-Salazar.

Masterworks II will be filled with Mediterranean flair, passionate music, and momentos sin respiración (moments of breathlessness). G. Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville, the opening to that most famous comedic opera, uses masterful storytelling and music to bring to life the magic of Spain. It’s a wonderful way to begin this performance.

Masterworks II: Pepe Plays Ponce

Celebrating the work of guest composer Gabriela Ortiz, this concert will feature her powerful Concierto Voltaje with timpani solo performance by MSU Professor of Percussion Gwendolyn Dease. This rhythmic concert also includes Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonía India) by Carlos Chávez, Sensemayá, for Orchestra by Silvestre Revueltas, and MSU Professor of Composition Ricardo Lorenz’s Todo Terreno, commissioned and premiered in 2022 by the LA Philharmonic. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors. Generously sponsored by Dr. Charles Gliozzo in memory of Marjorie Gliozzo.

Symphony Orchestra: The Power Of Rhythm

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Carlos Miguel Prieto, celebrated as a rising star both domestically and abroad, was named 2019 Conductor of the Year by Musical America and is the foremost Mexican conductor of his generation. He serves as artistic director of México City’s Minería Symphony, which was founded in the 1970s and is widely regarded as the leading musical institution in México — one that regularly supports and programs Mexican composers. Housed at the Academia de Música del Palacio de Minería, the name honors the period from the 18th century when mining was one of the region’s most important economic activities.

Musical America’s 2019 Conductor of the Year Carlos Miguel Prieto makes a triumphant return to Kansas City stages with pianist Gabriela Montero and México City’s Minería [mee-neh-REE-ah] Symphony Orchestra of Mexico this season. The program includes Montero’s own piano concerto “The Latin Concerto,” Silvestre Revueltas’ massive work for expanded orchestra Night of the Mayas, a new piece by Gabriela Ortiz and Carlos Chávez’s Symphony No. 2.

Minería Symphony Orchestra of Mexico City Carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor and Gabriela Montero, Piano

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

An exuberant melding of jazz, blues and classical styles, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F is an ideal vehicle for Illinois native Conrad Tao, “a personality-plus pianist with a fearless technique” (Chicago Classical Review). Bernstein’s beloved West Side Story dances include themes from the songs “Somewhere” and “Maria.” Barber’s soulful overture and Revueltas’ joyfully raucous Sensemayá frame the program.

Gershwin & Bernstein

Symphony Center

Dalí Quartet & Ricardo Morales—The Dalí Quartet makes its Bravo! Vail debut, performing works by Latin American and Classical composers in a program featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Principal Clarinet Ricardo Morales.  

Dalí Quartet

Vilar Performing Arts Center

A program of extremes begins with Walker’s superb lament for strings and ends with an epic celebration of Mayan culture, utilizing 13 different percussion instruments! Michelle Cann’s (below) meteoric rise to stardom happened while we were talking to her – her Price’s Concerto with Philadelphia became a sensation. Our assent with Cann adds another jewel here: Strauss’s Burleske.

Masterworks 5: Hidden Gems

Oregon Center for the Arts

Grants Pass High School

Collier Center for the Performing Arts

MSM Orchestral Performance (OP) program faculty members play alongside their MSM OP program students.

WATCH! Orchestral Performance Program: Faculty-Student Orchestra Concert

Manhattan School of Music

Percussionist José Moncayo filled his Huapango with the popular music heard around the Gulf of Mexico. Frank opens her “Dances” with what she calls “an unabashed tribute” to the urban jungle evoked in Bernstein’s West Side Story. TWELVE percussionists pack the stage for Revueltas’ rhythmic, dynamic, and booming piece!

Latin Vistas

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

“Our guest conductor this season is Joseph Young, music director of the Berkley Symphony in California. Young put together a program of exciting music coming right from the ballet stage. And our guest soloist is the master of the guitar, Pepe Romero. He made his first recording back in 1959, and has since recorded more than 60 albums! Pepe has performed with symphonies across the country and throughout the world. Performing in Oklahoma City, his music leads us from Mexico to Spain and France as he communicates the richness and beauty of the classical guitar.”

Bolero

Civic Center Music Hall

Dudamel leads two of his dramatic specialties: Silvestre Revueltas’ eerie film score that features a wild, extended section in which countless percussion instruments suggest Mayan rituals. Then it’s Igor Stravinsky’s brilliantly colorful score for a ballet based on a weird tale of a magician and his three puppets. Launching the evening is a world premiere from Venezuelan-born Ricardo Lorenz.

Dudamel Conducts Revueltas and Petrushka

Five-time GRAMMY Award-winning Nicaraguan conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a south-of-the-border immersion, packing plenty of heat into a fusion of Afro-Caribbean, Central and South American traditions, including the tango-infused Sinfonía Buenos Aires. The renowned Venezuelan soloist Pacho Flores dips into Mexico's rich trumpet-playing tradition for a piece written by him and for him by Arturo Márquez.

Flores Performs Márquez

The Woodruff Arts Center

As spring gathers apace in May, the Komische Oper presents one of the twentieth century’s pivotal masterpieces: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. A ballet depicting a springtime sacrificial ritual, it’s still one of the modern repertoire’s most imposing works, featuring intricate rhythms and bold melodies. The American conductor Tito Muñoz is also bringing us a fascinating work from across the Atlantic. While Stravinsky was scandalizing early twentieth-century Europe with his expressionist ballets, the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas—much less well known in Germany—was crafting his own orchestral masterpiece, Sensemayá, likewise inspired by ancient dance rituals. In addition, the soprano Josefine Mindus returns to the Komische Oper with Brett Dean’s contemporary Shakespearean meditation And Once I Played Ophelia. And what better way to conclude the evening than with Charles Ives’ existential inquiry, The Unanswered Question?

Spring!

Schiller Theater

Friday Favorites: Appalachian Spring

Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts

Appalachian Spring

We invite you to travel to Latin America with music! The Lithuanian Symphony Wind Orchestra Chamber Ensemble presents a program specially prepared for this concert, “Latin Wind”, which will take you to the colorful and passionate rhythms of Latin America. At the concert, you will hear works by famous, but less frequently performed in our concert halls, composers from Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina for wind ensembles of various compositions, covering a wide range of styles – from the energetic dance music intonations of Arturo Márquez and Aldemar Romero to the mystically colorful “Quarteto simbólico” by Villa-Lobos or the pieces of Silvestre Revueltas created in the spirit of modernism.

Latin wind

Paliesius Manor

Chaos, whistles, angry heckles, and even physical altercations: When Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience was outraged by a real scandal. What music, pounding, orgiastic, of almost obscene sensuality! And then there was the subject matter: a pagan ritual celebrating spring and fertility, including the sacrifice of a virgin. Shocking! Often, however, it is precisely the most heated waves that calm down particularly quickly. 

Composer

Silvestre Revueltas

Events

Upcoming events

23 - 25 Apr, 2026

Flores Performs Márquez · Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

May 3, 2026

Spring! · Komische Oper Berlin

May 8, 2026

Friday Favorites: Appalachian Spring · North Carolina Symphony

8 - 9 May, 2026

Appalachian Spring · North Carolina Symphony

May 16, 2026

Latin wind · Paliesius Manor

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7 - 8 Mar, 2026

Debussy and Piazzolla · Tucson Symphony Orchestra

Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2026

Echoes of Heritage · Annapolis Symphony Orchestra

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