To celebrate “Las Américas,” and some of the classic compositions of North, Central and South American, the sixth annual Winter Music Festival is taking on a massive, San Antonio sized schedule. Made possible by the Valero Classic Series and Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the San Antonio Symphony will combine the repertoire of Americans George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Aaron Copland with Mexican, Cuban and Argentinian-inspired compositions.
Here’s the schedule of the Symphony’s performances.
Classics 4 Rhapsody In Blue
January 15 and 16 at 8pm – January 17, 2016 at 2pm
H-E-B Performance Hall at The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Sebastian Lang-Lessing – conductor
Vincent Balse – piano
Gershwin – Cuban Overture
Gershwin, arr. Grofé – Rhapsody in Blue
Ellington and Strayhorn, arr. Jeff Tyzik – The Essential Ellington: Music of Ellington and Strayhorn
Gershwin – I Got Rhythm, Variations for Piano and Orchestra
Ellington, arr. Peress – Harlem
Gershwin – Catfish Row: Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess
Classics 5 American Cello
January 22 and 23 at 8pm.
H-E-B Performance Hall at The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
John Axelrod – conductor
Christine Lamprea – cello
Piazzolla – Tangazo
Jeffrey Mumford – of fields unfolding . . . echoing depths of resonant light
John Adams – El Dorado
Bernstein – Divertimento
Classics 6 Barber Violin Concerto
January 29 and 30 at 8pm
H-E-B Performance Hall at The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Sebastian Lang-Lessing – conductor
Eric Gratz – violin
Copland – El salón México
Barber – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14
Catán – Florencia en el Amazonas
Barber – Medea’s Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a
Classics 7 From Bernstein to Piazzolla
February 5 and 6 at 8pm
H-E-B Performance Hall at The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Sebastian Lang-Lessing – conductor
Juan Pablo Jofre – bandoneón
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers / director – John Silantien
Schuman – New England Triptych
Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Piazzolla – Aconcagua, Concerto for Bandoneón
Bernstein – On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite
Arturo Márquez – Danzón No. 2
This article appears in Jan 6-12, 2016.