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Torrevieja symphony orchestra returns

New season of concerts contains music by a wide variety of composers

- By Barry Wright bwright@ cbnews. es

TORREVIEJA symphony orchestra ( OST) will be returning to the stage of the town’s internatio­nal auditorium on October 24 and 25, with a concert of music by Mozart and Tchaikovsk­y.

The programme features Mozart’s Serenata Notturna and Piano Concerto No. 21, featuring the soloist Svetlana Berezhnaya, and Tchaikovsk­y’s Serenade for Strings Op. 48.

The concerts are the opening performanc­es in the OST’s 2020/ 21 programme.

The inaugural concerts will be followed with the traditiona­l New Year performanc­es on January 3 and January 6, where the orchestra will perform a series of seasonal waltzes, polkas, dances and Spanish music.

Next up, on February 27, the invited conductor Kay Bumann will see the OST with the pianist Shiran Wang through performanc­es of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 11 and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 Op. 68.

On March 27 the orchestra with the pianist López Salas will give a concert of American music, featuring Gershwin’s Cuban Overture and Rhapsody in Blue, Danzón No. 2 by Arturo

Márquez, Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla, and Huapango by José Pablo Moncayo.

The final concert in the cycle is on May 8, when OST accompanie­d by the violinist Sora Han perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s

Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas.

With the exception of the February 27 performanc­e, the orchestra will be conducted by José Francisco Sánchez Sánchez.

Tickets cost between € 10 and € 25 for all performanc­es, except

the final concert where they range from € 7 to € 20.

A season ticket covering five performanc­es costs from € 75 to € 95. Tickets for the inaugural concert and season tickets are available every Monday from 10.0013.00 from the Torrevieja symphony orchestra office at Calle Vicente Blasco Ibañez, 23. All concerts start at 19.00. The wearing of face masks is obligatory and other safety precaution­s will also be in place.

 ??  ?? The orchestra during a previous performanc­e at the internatio­nal auditorium
The orchestra during a previous performanc­e at the internatio­nal auditorium

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