In Sunday’s (3/15) San Antonio Express-News (Texas), David Hendricks writes that the San Antonio Symphony’s 2015-16 season will feature “a festival celebrating the music of the Americas…. Since the 2010-11 season, Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing has scheduled festivals featuring famous composers, from Peter Tchaikovsky to Richard Strauss. For 2016, the January-February classical series concerts will present a four-program Las Americas Festival featuring U.S. and Latin American composers [including] Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Samuel Barber, Duke Ellington, Astor Piazzolla, Arturo Márquez, William Schuman, and a world-premiere cello concerto by U.S. composer Jeffrey Mumford.… The four Las Americas concerts will mix U.S. composers with Latin American ones. ‘I didn’t want to completely divide it. I wanted to show both worlds belong to each other, that there are no borders,’ Lang-Lessing said.” Also planned in 2015-16 are Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s First Symphony, and Haydn’s oratorio The Creation with the San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers, and a gala concert with Yo-Yo Ma. “The symphony also will perform an expanded 24 free Young People’s Concerts at the Tobin Center, supported by a three-year gift totaling $1 million from H-E-B Chairman Charles Butt.”
Posted March 18, 2015
