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For 24 years
the Orchestra of New Spain
has provided Dallas, and other New World cities, with the great, often
profound, always entertaining music of the little known Spanish
18th century. Our revelations have a parallel in the renowned Meadows
Museum where Algur Meadows’ explorations of Spanish visual art
with the eminent art historian William Jordan, brought to our city what
has become the most significant collection of Spanish art outside of
Spain. May we invite you to join us as we confirm our past discoveries
and begin a new exploration.
Early in our journey we observed the centrality
of theater in the artistic life of Spain. The
villancicos we sang in those early Guadalupe
Cathedral Christmas concerts, and the tonadillas
we featured in so many Meadows Museum
concerts existed in their original presentations
as theatrical works. It took an understanding
of how baroque music and theater developed
together to draw us into a 2002 collaboration
with Booker T Washington High School for the
Arts and its theater program for our first staged work, followed in 2006 by a collaboration
with SMU’s Theatre Department presenting Lope de Vega.
At the Boston Early Music Festival only three months ago the measure of our artistic
development came to the fore as I witnessed the Festival’s period production of Handel’s
Almira. During the performance, and even more as I listened to Stage Director Gilbert
Blin’s discussion of the concepts behind it, I realized how similar had been the means to
our successful baroque production in the hands of Gustavo Tambascio. Sebastián Durón’s
Cupid’s New Arms of Love in our theater was truly a world class event, a uniquely faithful
gesamtkunstwerk of a Spanish stage work of 1711, setting a very high bar for what we
have now decided will be an annual staged production in the Dallas Arts District’s City
Performance Hall.
Thus on Valentine’s night, February 14, 2014, we return to
that venue with a multi-faceted production of the work of
Manuel de Falla and Federico Garcia Lorca danced by
Daniel de Cordoba’s Bailes Españoles and Delilah Buitron’s
Flamenco Festival and their celebrated guests. You’ll be
treated to a spectacular evening of music and dance of
early 20th century Spain. As you peruse the contents of this
brochure note the variety of what we offer, to you, and to
those around you who may have missed out. It’s your
opportunity to share.
— Grover Wilkins 3d
Educational Outreach
The young people in these pictures are some of the benefactors of the Orchestra of New
Spain’s educational efforts. Having begun in 1996, these activities took a quantum leap in
2010 when we opened a door to IberAmerica with the beginning of our Bolivian educational
program. It was prompted by a fortuitous meeting in Sao Paulo (2009) with the remarkable
violinist and educator, Rubén Darío. That same summer we received a request from Dallas ISD
to create a Summer Strings Camp. Now we dedicate three weeks of each summer to intensive
classes and rehearsals with more than 300 children on two continents. What an adventure
we are undertaking!
Cover portrait of Mariana Marquez © Reproducción, Biblioteca Nacional de España
We reach hundreds more each year through in-school concerts and our City Performance
Hall productions. These activities target minority populations with engaging and educational
programs based on our concert programming. Encourage your school music teacher to
contact us directly or go to www.dallasartspartners.org/ArtBiz/Programs.
For students in DISD orchestral programs we provide the annual Summer Strings Camp, a
one-week program of intensive instruction with ONS musicians and select DISD music
teachers. Since 2011, we have grown from 90 students to an expected 250 students for June
16-20, 2014, charging only $25 for the week. Contact your school music teacher or us directly.
Once again in 2014 we will journey to Bolivia with a small
contingent from the Orchestra of New Spain to teach and
concertize with students in three of the villages of musicrich Chiquitania. Support a musician in this effort.
25th Concert Season
ORCHESTRA OF NEW SPAIN
Thr, Oct 10 | 8 pm | Latino Barroco
City Performance Hall | Dallas Arts District
The Latin-Baroque Fusion Ensemble Rumbarroco and the Orchestra invite you to experience
Latin American and Spanish music from the Renaissance on, highlighting IberAmerica’s African
and indigenous roots. Music from Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Portugal and Argentina.
Songs, dances, joropos, plenas, tangos, and villancicos. Dancing allowed only in the aisles!
$25/Students $10/Family Plan
Fri, Nov 22 | 7 pm | Requiem for a fallen leader
Christ the King Catholic Church | Preston & Colgate
Fri, Nov 8 | 6:30 pm
Home and Garden I
at Margo and Jim Keyes
On this emblematic date the full Orchestra and Chorus present
the 1765 Requiem Mass of Francisco Courcelle, written on the
occasion of the death of Austrian Emperor Francis I. This lyrical,
moving work recognizes the profound loss of a great leader
today just as it did 250 years ago.
Admission complimentary. Suggested $10 donation.
As always the combination of home,
tapas, wine and music offer an intimate
evening among old and new friends.
Address provided with ticket purchase.
Attire: Casual Chic.
$50
“Hallelujah! A fresh Christmas program”
— Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
Sun, Dec 15 | 5 pm | Christmas at Christ the King | Preston & Colgate
Join us for another fresh Christmas program! This year including two villancicos of Padre Soler edited in 1979 by Californian Frederick Marvin,
whose ground breaking work has gone virtually unacknowledged. With Renaissance Spanish and 18th c. Iberamerican treats.
Admission complimentary. Suggested $10 donation.
Sun, Jan 19 | 6 pm
The Annual Courcelle Dinner
Place TBA
In anticipation of this season’s staged
production—The Rise of Flamenco—
we’ll entertain you with our collaborators
in the Dallas flamenco world. And of
course a divine dinner and fine wine
around our great entertainment.
$125
Sat, Feb 8 | 6:30 pm
the Meadows Museum
In collaboration with the Museum’s
exhibit Sorolla and America the Orchestra
presents a preview of next week’s staged
production in the visual context of the
Falla and Lorca’s contemporary, Joaquín Sorolla, notably his flamenco infused Café de
Novedades. Join us 2-5pm for a Symposium on Sorolla and America.
Admission complimentary. (Limited seating, but assured in main hall for season subscribers.)
Fri, Feb 14 & Sat, Feb 15 | 7:30 pm
The Rise of Flamenco: Lorca, Falla, Sorolla, Andalusia 1920-39
City Performance Hall | Dallas Arts District
Los Bailes espanoles de Dallas, and Dallas Flamenco Festival featuring Antonio Arrebola, Cristo Cortés,
Delilah Buitron, Daniel de Córdoba, Mercedes Padron & Hailey Von Schlehenried.
This fully staged production joins two of Dallas’ stellar flamenco companies with their international
guest artists and the Orchestra in a celebration of flamenco and its surroundings in early 20th century
Andalusia. Federico Garcia Lorca’s musical ear prompted his transcriptions of traditional Andalusian
songs, before his writings condemned him to a martyr’s grave. Manuel de Falla traveled to Paris and
London to share his Spanishness before it was accepted in Madrid with his ballet El corregidor y la
molinera which, after revision, became El Sombrero de tres picos, 1917, produced by Serge Diaghilev
with set design and costumes by Pablo Picasso.
$60/$40/$25/Students $10/Family Plan
Sat, Mar 29 | 7 pm
Villa y Corte — Town and Court
Zion Lutheran Church | Lovers Lane & Skillman
As the Enlightenment was realized in Spain under the reign of the cosmopolitan King Carlos III, the theaters of
Madrid saw an expansion of the popular tonadillas while the court reveled in the beauty of the newly discovered
symphonic repertory of Luigi Boccherini played in the Summer Palace of Aranjuez. A splendid introduction to the
contrast between town and court.
$25/Students $10/Family Plan
Thr, May 15 | Home and Garden II
Programming is subject to
change. Confirm concert
information and time
in advance at:
www.orchestraofnewspain.org
or call 214-750-1492.
Place TBA
For this concert we invite four of our musicians to dig into the repertory of the
Spanish Enlightenment, to play works of the little known Italo-Spanish composer,
Gaetano Brunetti. We’ll have just returned from Bolivia with photos and tales to
tell. Join us for a relaxing evening to close our 25th Season.
$50
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(up to age 16) are FREE with each
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Our Home and Garden concerts are intimate evenings of wine, tapas, exquisite
ambiance and delightful company. And all that’s before the music!
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