The New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving’s “Sundays at the Symphony” series for 2011-2012 continues Sunday, April 1 with “Latino Connections IV,” featuring the striking, rhythmic music of the best composers from the Latin world.
The concert is at 3:30 p.m. at the Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
Dr. Sergio Espinosa, the orchestra’s conductor, has chosen music from Mexico and Spain for this fourth annual Latino music concert, along with an overture written by an American composer but highly influenced by the music of Cuban dance halls.
The full concert lineup includes: Sylvestre Revueltas’ “Sensemayá,” Manuel de Falla’s music from “The Three-Cornered Hat,” Blas Galindo’s “Sones de Mariachi,” George Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture,” and an arrangement of Ernesto Lecuona’s “La Malagueña” by Irving native Ryan Cockerham. Soloists for “La Malagueña” include violinist Cockerham and guitarist Raja Khoury.
Dr. Espinosa serves on the faculty of The University of Texas at Arlington and is senior music examiner for the International Baccalaureate Organization in Wales, UK. Born in Mexico, he studied there, in Switzerland and in New York. He holds a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the University of Iowa. As a violinist he has performed in Spain, France and the United States. His intense activity as music educator has led him to give workshops and presentations in cities such as: Vancouver, Winnipeg and Calgary in Canada: New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Houston, Denver, and Boston, in the USA; Hong-Kong in China and Canberra in Australia.
The New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving is a community orchestra, made up of trained musicians who choose to continue to play while they serve in other professions: teaching, accounting, film-making and others. Since 1988, the orchestra has served audiences from Irving and throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
This concert is funded in part by the City of Irving through the Irving Arts Board.
