2024-2025 Season

Sunday October 6, 2024 – 3pm

Saunders Trades and Technical High School
183 Palmer Road, Yonkers, NY

Hispanic Heritage Celebration

Explore Hispanic composers’ significant contribution to classical music, dance, popular culture and story-telling as the Yonkers Philharmonic celebrates Hispanic Month.  Guitarist Oren Fader is featured in Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.  You’ll recognize it as it’s been adapted by icons like Miles Davis and Herb Albert and his Tijuana Brass. And speaking of recognition, Argentine-American Lalo Schifrin has been a central figure in classical-jazz composition and is known the world over for his music for television and films.  The entire family will recognize his theme from Mission Impossible.  Sylvestre Revueltas’s score for the film La Noche de los Mayas, where a mountain-dwelling tribe encounters modern colonialists, features percussion related to Mexico’s pre-Columbian heritage.  YPO is thrilled to include several local high school students in the percussion and trumpet sections.  Bring your tango shoes for Astor Piazzola’s Libertango and your handkerchief for Heitor Villa-Lobos’ deeply moving Aria from Bachianas Brazileras No. 5. Bring the entire family because there’s something for everyone this program spanning 5 countries and nearly two centuries.  

Concierto de Aranjuez – Joaquin Rodrigo (Spain)
Oren Fader, Guitar 

Libertango – Astor Piazzolla (Argentina)
with two tango dancers

Serenade for Strings – Teresa Carreno (Venezuela)

Mission: Impossible – Lalo Schifrin (Argentina) 

Bachianas Brazileras No. 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil)

La Noche de los Mayas (Revueltas film score)  – adapted by Jose Yves Limantour (Mexico)