Masterworks V
Love Around the WorldAlondra de la Parra, conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitar
The Smith Center
Pre-concert conversation begins promptly at 6:45 p.m.
“Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde.
I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where.”
Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda
Marquez
Danzon No. 2
Castro
Intermezzo de Atzimba
Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Dynamic young Mexican conductor and the founder of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Alondra de la Parra, leads a passionate program illustrating that love means the same in any language, including music from Ricardo Castro’s 1900 Mexican opera about doomed love, Atzimba, and Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez featuring sensational classical guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas. The second half is dedicated to Rimsky-Korsakov’s re-telling of the turbulent Arabian Nights tale, Scheherazade.
