Música Mexicana

Program & Artists

Manuel Ponce Ferial
Carlos Chávez Suite de Caballos de Vapor (Horsepower Suite)
Manuel Ponce Chapultepec
Silvestre Revueltas La noche de los Mayas (The Night of the Mayas)

Leon Botstein conductor

Tickets

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Part of TŌN’s Fisher Center concert series

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now perform works by three of the leading Mexican symphonic composers of the twentieth century. Manuel Ponce, known as the “father of Mexican Music” is represented by two pieces: the exuberant Ferial, depicting an afternoon fair in a small town, and the impressionistic Chapultepec, a colorful symphonic poem that takes audiences to the Mexico City suburb where the composer lived. Carlos Chávez’s boisterous Horsepower Suite reflects the interconnection of humans and industry, which the composer referred to as “struggle, effort, and creation.” And finally the suite from Silvestre Revueltas’ score for the film La noche de los Mayas is a powerfully expressive work straight out of the Yucatan jungles.

These concerts will also be livestreamed on TŌNtube.

Concert Details

>Read the concert program

Brief remarks by TŌN bass trombonist Samuel Boeger

Manuel Ponce Ferial
15 min
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>Read concert notes by TŌN clarinetist Dávid Kéringer

Carlos Chávez Suite de Caballos de Vapor (Horsepower Suite)
26 min
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>Read concert notes by TŌN percussionist Nick Goodson

Intermission
20 min

Brief remarks by TŌN bass trombonist Samuel Boeger

Manuel Ponce Chapultepec
15 min
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>Read concert notes by TŌN oboist David Zoschnick

Silvestre Revueltas La noche de los Mayas (The Night of the Mayas)
31 min
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>Read concert notes by TŌN cellist Elvira Hoyos Malagon

All timings are approximate.

Sample the Music

Manuel Ponce Ferial

Carlos Chávez Suite de Caballos de Vapor (Horsepower Suite)

Manuel Ponce Chapultepec

Silvestre Revueltas La noche de los Mayas (The Night of the Mayas)

Photo: The Orchestra Now by Steven J. Eliopoulos

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