Hot Latin Nights in Fort Smith
Latin Jazz and orchestral showpieces from Spain and Mexico are featured in full symphonic splendor at the Fort Smith Symphony’s concert Hot Latin Nights with The Mambo Kings, October 22.
The program includes Moncayo’s Huapango; Turina’s Danzas fantasticas, op. 22; Leonard Bernstein’s Mambo from West Side Story; as well as additional pieces by Astor Piazzola, Dave Brubeck, Tito Puente and more.
Huapango is the unofficial second national anthem of Mexico. It was written in 1941 by then 29-year-old Jose Pablo Moncayo, a composer and conductor from Guadalajara. Danzas fantasticas, written in 1919, is probably Spanish composer Joaquin Turina’s best-known work out of a lifetime of major compositions.
The Mambo Kings are one of the premier Latin Jazz ensembles in the world today. Together since 1995, they are enjoying great success as Upstate New York's foremost Latin jazz ensemble, and have rapidly earned a national reputation for their explosive blend of Afro Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation.
Since their orchestral debut in 1997 with the Rochester Philharmonic, Mambo Kings have appeared at music festivals and in Pops concerts with orchestras in Baltimore, Vancouver, Detroit, Dallas, Naples, Fla. and Portland, Ore. among many others, performing original compositions and arrangements by pianist Richard DeLaney.
Hot Latin Nights with the Mambo Kings will be performed Saturday, October 22, 7:30 p.m. at Fort Smith’s ArcBest Corporation Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available by calling (479) 452-7575 or visiting the Symphony’s sales office located at Suite 617 Central Mall, in Fort Smith. Prices are $40 and $45 for adults, $17 and $22 for students.
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