The National Symphony Orchestra will pay tribute to the memory of Margarita Copello de Rodríguez and to maestros Julio de Windt and Ramón Antonio (Papa) Molina in the season opening concert scheduled for Wednesday, 25 August 2021 at the Carlos Piantini Hall of the National Theater. The National Symphony Orchestra season was cancelled in 2020. The orchestra, nevertheless, kept active with presentations online.
Tickets to the event should be purchased early at the National Theater box office or through the Fundación Sinfonia and Uepa tickets online. The attendance to the theater is keeping to Covid-19 protocols.
The National Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 80th anniversary this 2021.
The following is the 2021 Symphony Season program:
25 August 2021:
Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4
Johannes Brahms’s Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra, piano solo with Antonio Pompa Baldi
Conductor: Jose Antonio Molina
1 September 2021 :
Papa Molina, Three Folkloric Images.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Concerto No. 23 for piano and orchestra with Yugoslavian pianist Jasmina Gavrilovich
Enigma Variations (Edward Elgar).
Conductor: Santy Rodríguez, assistant conductor of the OSN
15 September 2021:
Johannes Brahms’s Concerto for violin and Orchestra Op. 77 with Dominican violinist Aysha Syed Castro.
Antonín Dvorak’s Carnival Overture
Antonín Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8
Conductor: Jaime Morales
22 September (to be confirmed):
Beethoven’s Concerto for violin and orchestra
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 Eroica
Solo participation of Anna Mehlin, violinist of the Berlin Philarmonic. Musicians of the Berlin Philarmonic will be playing with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor: Jose Antonio Molina
On the program for 10 November:
Richard Strauss’s Don Juan symphony. Solo participation by Dominican soprano Nathalie Pena Comas
Till Eulenspiegel’s Travesuras.
Conductor: Jose Antonio Molina
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18 August 2021