State orchestra begins year with benefit concerts
Guest conductor Anatoly Zatin leads the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra’s first major concert of the year. This benefit concert features Shostakovich’s “Festival Overture,” “Piano Concerto No. 2,” Prokofiev’s “La Suite Escita,” and Scriabin’s “Prometheus, the Poem of Fire.” Invited performers are the Zapopan Choir, directed by Santiago Cumplido, and pianists Daniela Liebman and Vlada Vassilieva. The beneficiary from the concert is the Mexican chapter of the World Children’s Transplant Fund.
Beset by uncertainty about whether its leadership will keep their jobs under the new state government taking the reins March 1, the general manager of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), Arturo Gomez Poulat, said that he and Artistic Director Alondra de la Parra are nevertheless designing the orchestra's new season and hoping to propose artistic and business projects to cultural authorities in February.
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