´´NEW NORMALITY´
Finally, after 15 long months of closure due to the pandemic, the Teatro Degollado reopened its doors, to begin living the "new normal" with the Second Season of concerts 2021 of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ).
It is therefore passed from the virtual concerts -on television or the internet, without an audience in the room- of two seasons of the previous year, and those of the first season of this 2021, offered in the Patio de los Naranjos of the Cabañas Cultural Institute, to the aforementioned "new normality", with reduced quota and strict health protocols.
Of the five programs, with the usual Thursday and Sunday auditions, prepared for this season, the first two are, perhaps, for traditionalist tastes, the most attractive.
The first, last Thursday the 17th and this Sunday the 20th, the OFJ, with its chief conductor Jesús Medina Villarreal at the baton, begins with Mozart's “The Marriage of Figaro” Overture, followed by Symphony No. 104, “London”, one of Haydn's best known and most celebrated, to close with Beethoven's Symphony No. 8.
The second program includes the Overture to "La Italiana en Algiers", by Rossini; set 1 of “Arias and Ancient Dances”, by Respighi, and Symphony No. 4, “Italian”, by Mendelssohn. The concert on Thursday 24 will take place in the Placido Domingo Hall of the Performing Arts Ensemble; that of Sunday 27, at the Degollado Theater.
The third program will be in charge of the percussion ensembles, woodwinds and metals of the OFJ.
As far as there is an opportunity to review the programs, there are, with the permission of the kind reader, some recommendations of recent concerts, both spectacular, accessible on YouTube and other related platforms. One, the Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, by Schumann (considered the most popular among all of its genre, even above the five by Beethoven, the more than twenty by Mozart, the two by Brahms, others so many by Chopin and those by Tchaikowsky and Grieg, among others), at the Teatro de La Scala, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and Yuja Wang as soloist. Another, Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Seong-Jin Cho as soloist and the Cologne Philharmonic conducted by Cristian Macelaru.