In addition to a pair of performances during the May Cultural Festival (see story this page), the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) is having a short “Spring Serandes” season with two concerts to be held in a delightful open-air venue: the majestic patio of the Museo Cabañas, arguably Guadalajara’s most historic edifice, and a UNESCO heritage site to boot.
Also next month, the orchestra is taking the same concerts to outlying Jalisco towns that rarely witness top-level classical music events: Atoyac (May 3), Tenamaxtlán (May 11), San Ignacio Cerro Gordo (May 17) and Sayula (May 18).
The first Cabañas concert on Friday, May 12, 8:30 p.m. sees OFJ Musical Director Jose Luis Castillo lead the musicians in two works: Concerto for Horn (Trumpet) and Strings E flat major composed by J.B.G. Neruda in Dresden, Germany around 1750; and Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, known as Death and the Maiden, a piece that has been called “one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire.” Roman Granda is the invited rumpeter.
Ines Rodriguez is the invited conductor for the second concert on Friday, May 19, 8:30 p.m., when the OFJ interprets Richard Strauss’ Serenade for Winds, Henry Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major.
Tickets, 350 pesos, are available online voyalteatro.com.