Photos: Sergio Betancort
The audience that filled the auditorium of Jameos del Agua described as "spectacular" the concert that the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra offered last Sunday within the 34th International Music Festival of the Canary Islands.
The orchestra, under the baton of Guillermo García Calvo, began the concert with the 'Overture of Ruslan and Liudmila'. by the Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857) continuing with the 'Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra Op, 18 in C minor' by the Russian composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff. For this, it had the prestigious pianist Alexei Volodin, born in 1977 in St. Petersburg, where he began studying music at the age of nine, who is acclaimed for his sensitivity and technical brilliance and invited by the highest level orchestras for their concerts.
In the second part of the concert, the public was able to enjoy the 'Fanfare for the Common Man' by the composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990). Born in Brooklyn, New York, Copland was an American classical and film music composer of Russian-Jewish origin, whose work is influenced by impressionism and especially by Igor Stravinsky. a
Next, the orchestra performed 'Symphonic Dances West Side Story 1961' by the composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), who was the first conductor from the United States to achieve worldwide fame, famous for having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
With this second part, the concert of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra ended, with favorable criticism from the public both in terms of the program chosen for the concert and the great interpretive professionalism.