With the Beethoven-heavy Festival de Mayo winding down as we go to press, the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra embarks on its second season of 2024. 

The 27th edition of Guadalajara’s May Cultural Festival gets underway May 7, 8 and 9, with three performances at the Teatro Degollado of Beethoven’s Ninth (Choral) Symphony, marking 200 years since its debut at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, Austria.

Bomeone has noted that if we only had sculptures to go by, we would assume that the entire population of ancient Greece was 23 years old and in peak physical condition.

New York Jazz

The Anthony Hervey Quartet restarts the New York Jazz All-Stars program following the Easter break.

Patti Smith, the 77-year-old Chicago-born singer, poet and activist, has brought a unique audiovisual project and sensory experience, involving sound, film, installation and performance, to Guadalajara within the framework of the International Music Fair (FIMPRO).

Mexican composers

Young guest conductor Ines Rodriguez heads up a program of Mexican composers in the Jalisco Philharmonic’s fourth presentation of the year: Armando Lavalle, Dora Vera, Jose F. Vasquez and Carlos Chavez.