THE LAST ONE AND WE'RE LEAVING (CLOSING GALA CONCERT)
The eight programs that made up the 2024 Summer Season of the Sinfónica de Minería shared a common intention: to travel through more than 250 years of musical history through foundational works, those whose innovative languages transformed the art of articulating sounds. It was an ambitious program that allowed us to travel through almost three centuries of [...]
MAHLER, VADIM AND MINECRAFT: A MAGICAL, MOVING AND ADDICTIVE EVENING
The virtuoso violinist Vadim Gluzman returns to perform, during the eighth program of the 2024 Summer Season of the Sinfónica de Minería, the soloist part of the complex and demanding Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 by Max Bruch (1838-1920). This will be followed by the Symphony No. 7, The Song of the Night, by Gustav [...]
Three geniuses, an unforgettable concert
(Revueltas, Beethoven and R. Strauss under the baton of Grammy winner Carlos Miguel Prieto) The seventh program of the Sinfónica de Minería's 2024 Summer Season offers a fascinating musical journey that spans from the late 18th to the mid-20th century. It opens with Silvestre Revueltas' festive and sarcastic Alcancías [...]
Everything you need to know about the sixth program
Excellent music has the power to transform our lives. That is the essence of the Minería Symphony's Summer Season 2024: to offer you concerts you will never forget. The sixth program opens with a composer rarely heard in Mexico: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) and his cryptic Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes by Carl [...]
Everything you need to know about the fifth program
The Sinfónica de Minería is recording the complete orchestral works of Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) and will perform Itinerarios (as a tribute to the Spanish exile in Mexico after the civil war) to start the fifth program, which is complemented with Fandango, for violin and orchestra, by Arturo Márquez (1950) with the soloist participation of the violinist [...].
Everything you need to know about the fourth program
The fourth program of the season begins with a premiere in Mexico: the captivating Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra by John Adams (1947), a work that at times draws on the free and innovative spirit of jazz poetics. This is a special premiere because the soloist part will be played by the virtuoso [...]
Everything you need to know about the third program
Gabriela Ortiz (1964), the Mexican composer who never ceases to amaze the world, begins the third program with her work Tzam, dedicated to Mario Lavista (1943-2021), where she moves away from the rhythmic and timbral exuberance that characterizes her to recreate the intimate and delicate sound world of her teacher and friend. Then, the violinist Augustin [...]
"Let's keep on dreaming!"; interview with Mario Iván Martínez
This Saturday, July 13 (11 a.m. at the Nezahualcóyotl Concert Hall), the Minería Symphony presents its traditional children's family concert under the baton of Raúl Aquiles Delgado and the special participation of actor, musician and writer Mario Iván Martínez, whose artistic work directed towards children has been recognized worldwide for its [...]
Everything you need to know about the second program
(Summer Season 2024 of the Sinfónica de Minería) The second program, conducted by guest conductor José Luis Gómez Ríos, is framed within Classicism, a period characterized by the fact that music was at the service of reason (sound clarity as a reflection of the Enlightenment). It begins with a rescue: the beautiful Symphony in [...]
About frogs, loneliness and ghosts: Antonio Juan-Marcos explores with music the intimacy of Macario.
Since its foundation in 1978, the Sinfónica de Minería has been committed to commissioning and premiering new works by Mexican composers. Over the years, more than 50 works have been commissioned, some of which are now classics of our time, such as Concierto voltaje by Gabriela Ortiz, Ficciones by Mario Lavista or Sonatina [...]
