The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A striking photograph of a Peruvian anchovy fisherman by Ernesto Benavides is juxtaposed against street life in the central walkway of Avenida Chapultepec in Guadalajara.
After a successful Ajijic debut in early October, the young students who make up the Virtuosi Guadalajara string orchestra are returning to Lakeside with a new program featuring works by English composers Benjamin Britten and Peter Warlock, as well as Bach’s timeless classic, the Brandenburg Concerto #3 for String Orchestra.
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
The final program of the season sees two OFJ ensembles interpreting “The Quartet for the End of Time” by Olivier Messiaen and “Quinteto Instrumental” by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
It isn’t that Guadalajara’s Instituto Cultural Cabañas never includes non-pictorial art among the four or five shows that it typically exhibits simultaneously.
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
In Program 7 of the winter season, the orchestra interprets works by Bizet, Debussy and Tchaikovsky. Jesus Medina conducts.
Although tickets have sold out for the November 11 gig by the Etienne Charles Quartet at the Conjunto de Artes, the good news is that, after a long break, world-class jazz is back in the metro area, with the resumption of the NY Jazz All Stars cycle of concerts.
Those in search of materials to create Day of the Dead altars should head no further than the Feria del Carton y del Juguete (toys and paper crafts fair), which opened last weekend in downtown Guadalajara’s Parque Morelos.
