Orchestra of New Spain’s 2024-25 Season Announced!
DALLAS, TX – The Orchestra of New Spain’s 2024-25 Season offers an exciting and
varied representation of Spanish and Latin American music from the baroque to 20 th
century, with a fully staged production of Spanish Dance. This event focuses on the
beautiful early balletic/folkloric style called ‘escuela bolera’ (Bolero School), which is
seeing a revival in Flamenco circles in Spain.
The season begins Saturday, September 28 at Zion Lutheran Church with an opening
orchestral concert entitled The Italian Influence! From Haydn to Courcelle, Boccherini to
Farinelli, and expanding to chapel masters in the New World – musicians of this era were all
under an Italian spell!
The first of three Home and Garden finds us October 28 in the very popular Valley House
Gallery & Sculpture Garden with a program titled The Colors of Winds with Abby Hawthorne’s
wind quintet performing Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Ibert, Silvestrini, and an especially commissioned
Wind Quintet No. 2, Passacaglia, by SMU’s Lane Harder.
Nativity stories and carols can always be heard again, and this year well-known soprano Jendi
Tarde’s Mexican Pastorela program of 2023 has been honored with an invitation to perform on
December 14 in the glorious setting of the National Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of
Guadalupe. The dramatized and costumed telling of Pastorela at the Cathedral brings to life
repertory of Spain and the New World through moving 17th and 18th century villancicos,
providing a unique Spanish language Christmas program of compelling music and characters.
Same program to be presented in Fort Worth at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church on Sunday,
December 22.
In January we welcome the New Year with a Salon Concert in the home of music patrons
Richard and Enika Schulze, for a very Spanish collation of cava and ‘merienda’ [ light lunch).
Astrid Morales Torres, a young Mexican pianist on faculty at UTA, will perform a revelatory
Spanish/Latin American program including works of Ponce, Mompou, Ginastera, and Granados.
Our major staged production this season at the Moody is Danza Española: from Escuela
Bolera to Flamenco! Featuring artists from Albuquerque’s Yjastros Flamenco Company with
choreographer Deanna Encinias; from Madrid, esteemed choreographer of historic dance,
Jaime Puente and colleagues; and local celebrated flamencos, Flamenco Fever and Flame
Foundation. The uniquely Spanish fusion of classical dance, regional dance and ballet to create
‘escuela bolera’ inspires this program with ONS musicians on stage with dancers performing
jacaras, jaleos, boleros. Additionally, a delightful theatrical form ‘la tonadilla’, brings dancers and
singers on stage in the musical equivalent of a Goya painting featuring the seguidilla.
The second major orchestral work takes place April 5 th with On the Eve of Rose Sunday -A
Spanish Easter Celebration with concert celebrating the Lenten season with Haydn Symphony
49 “La Passione,” and music for Lent by Francisco Courcelle and Billoni.
Maestro Wilkins comments “It will be noticed that we are playing Haydn Symphonies on two
orchestra concerts this season. My recent return to Vienna after some 50 years of music
making had considerable impact on my world view and musical interests. Following the
Habsburg Empire’s decline with the death of Charles II, the Bourbon King Philip V stepped into
the void establishing artistic links to Vienna thru his artistic mignons included famous
Italians communicating between Madrid and Vienna, sharing musicians and libretti—Farinelli
and Metastasio planning artist exchanges—Haydn scores being sent to Philip’s Royal Palace by
the dozens, Haydn being the brilliant executor of the Italian orchestra style.
Season subscriptions can be purchased through our website
http://www.orchestraofnewspain.org
Individual tickets are available through Ticketdfw.com (http://www.ticketDFW.com) or by
calling 214-871-5000.
About the Orchestra of New Spain
The Orchestra of New Spain is a 36-member orchestra and chorus created in the Dallas Arts
District in 1989 and dedicated to exploration of the music of the Spanish and New World
baroque. The Orchestra’s concert season, yearly school programs, annual Dallas ISD Summer
Strings’ Camp and national & international touring programs are a unique contribution to the
Dallas Arts community.
The mission of the Orchestra of New Spain is to introduce, in concert, the neglected Spanish
and New World repertory from the 17 th and 18 th centuries and to educate the public on the
importance of staging the cultural implications of its Hispanic heritage. Additionally, the
Orchestra of New Spain performs renaissance, baroque, classical, and romantic repertories on
period instruments from various periods and provenances.
For additional information on the Orchestra of the New Spain, please log on
www.orchestraofnewspain.org
