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Marin Alsop and Alisa Weilerstein

Philharmonia Orchestra

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Marin Alsop conducts ‘Mexico’s second national anthem’ and an exciting new cello concerto by the Philharmonia’s Featured Composer Gabriela Ortiz. Ortiz’s concerto, written for tonight’s soloist Alisa Weilerstein, is inspired by the caves and underground rivers of the Yucatán peninsula (Dzonot in Mayan, and Cenotes in Spanish). Its four movements, ‘Vertical Light’, ‘Eye of the Jaguar’, ‘Jade’, and ‘The Toh Bird’, pay homage to this remarkable a...

Program

Gabriela Ortiz - Cello Concerto, 'Dzonot'

Arturo Márquez - Danzón No. 2

Composer

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

Composer

Participants

Alisa Weilerstein

Cello

Marin Alsop

Conductor

Philharmonia Orchestra