On November 3, Music Director José Luis Gomez will lead the first of two Tucson Symphony Orchestra performances marking Dia de Los Muertos with a concert featuring the TSO and the Mariachi Los Camperos, an eleven-member ensemble that includes musicians from Mexico and the U.S. On November 5, Gomez will conduct the TSO’s free 45-minute All Souls Day ceremony at the Mercado San Agustin public marketplace. That concert will include dancers, aerialists, fire spinners, and other performers, and music from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain (inspired by a witches’ Sabbath), Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, and Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre. Said Gomez, “I know the enormous impact All Souls Day has in Tucson and I couldn’t wait for the TSO to be part of it. It is a fantastic and wonderful way to connect emotionally through music with the vast, diverse and broad community that Tucson is.”
Posted November 1, 2017
