The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) will open 2022 with a special concert featuring a program of popular waltzes, polkas and classical marches in PALCCO’s Sala José Pablo Moncayo on Sunday, January 30, 12:30 p.m.

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.