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Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
A curtain-raiser to its fall season offers two concerts featuring works from some of the most iconic and popular movies of the past half-century, including “2001: Spacey Odyssey” (Strauss), the 2005 version of “King Kong” (James Newton Howard), “The Lord of the Rings” (Howard Shore), “Pirates of the Caribbean” (Zimmer), “Gladiator” (Zimmer), and the “The Magnificent Seven” (Elmer Bernstein).
Folk dance
Regarded as the best folk dance troupe in Mexico, the Ballet Folklorico of the Universidad de Guadalajara returns for another season of summer shows on Sunday evenings.
Film music is a surefire crowd-pleaser.
Zapopan’s new Centro Cultural Constitución will be the venue for a nearly two-hour performance by soprano Bárbara Padilla, who will once again sing on home turf Thursday, August 31, 8 p.m., directed by her friend Allen Vladimir and his Orquesta de Cámara de Zapopan (Zapopan Chamber Orchestra).
Folk dance
Regarded as the best folk dance troupe in Mexico, the Ballet Folklorico of the Universidad de Guadalajara returns for another season of summer shows on Sunday evenings.
Monday concerts
Concerts are held each Monday at this classy and relatively new cultural complex to the north of the city.
If you wish to be disabused of the notion that mariachi music automatically includes an eardrum-piercing phalanx of brightly-polished brass instruments, then we suggest you attend one or more of the events scheduled in the city’s 16th Traditional Mariachi Festival, running Monday, August 14 through Sunday, August 20.
