The Guadalajara Reporter
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Two giant index fingers created by Jalisco-born artist Jose Rivelino have been attracting plenty of attention in London’s emblematic Trafalgar Square as part of the Dual Year of UK and Mexico.
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
Martin Panteleev conducts Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21. Daniela Liebman, 13, is the invited pianist.
Guadalajara’s most attractive art museum, the Instituto Cultural Cabañas, has added another supernova to its ever-active galaxy of presentations with “Frida y Yo” (Frida and I), which lasts until January 17.
As has been the tradition for many decades, just before daybreak on Monday, October 12 the tiny, revered statue of the Virgin of Zapopan will be wheeled out of the Guadalajara Cathedral, placed carefully on an elaborate float and driven very slowly back to her ancestral home in the Zapopan Basilica, preceded by thousands of high-octane ethnic dancers, decked out in colorful indigenous costumes.
The legend of the Virgen of Zapopan began in 1525 when Franciscan friars arrived in what is now Zapopan to convert the local Indians.
An estimated 8,000 people lined Avenida Chapultepec Sunday to watch the colorful parade marking the start of the annual Fiestas de Octubre (state fair), now in its 50th year.
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
JPO musical director Marco Parisotto conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, arranged by Leopold Stokowski, and Brahms’ classic Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90.
