“Miguel Harth-Bedoya will end his 20-year tenure as music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra with a season full of favorite works and world premieres he says he can’t wait for his final audiences to hear,” writes Stephanie Allmon Merry in Friday’s (1/18) CultureMap (Fort Worth). “Highlights of the 2019-2020 season … include a Latin Spectacular Festival, the premiere of a work by a Fort Worth composer, collaborations with pop artists Michael Bolton and Kenny G, an all-Beethoven gala with one-name violin superstar Midori, and … the movie Ghostbusters with a score played live by the orchestra…. There will be world premieres by Victor Agudelo and Fort Worth composer Till MacIvor Meyn and a U.S. premiere of the orchestral version of the popular chamber work Clockworking by María Sigfúsdóttir…. ‘In the year 2000, the same year he began his 20-year tenure with the FWSO, Miguel won an Emmy Award for a televised Latin Spectacular program he conceived and presented,’ the orchestra says. ‘Now, in Miguel’s final festival weekend with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, we come full circle with an exploration of symphonic and jazz music from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.’ ”
Posted January 23, 2019
