Guanajuato, Gto., October 14, 2019.- The Symphony Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato (OSUG) received the Pride Guanajuato "Mtro. Eugenio Trueba Olivares" award by the State Institute of Culture (IEC) in recognition of its work of more than six decades of invaluable contribution to the musical culture of Guanajuato and its intense participation in the Cervantino International Festival.

The General Director of the IEC, Lic. Adriana Camarena de Obeso, gave the award to the concertino of the orchestra, M. Dmitri Kisselev on behalf of the musicians.

In this regard, the President of the University of Guanajuato, Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino commented that "our orchestra is having a good time with its titular conductor, Roberto Beltrán Zavala" and congratulated the whole group on being part of the cultural heritage, not only of the university but of the entire state.

Subsequently, OSUG presented its first program within the 47th edition of the International Cervantino Festival with a concert at the Teatro Juárez in which they paid tribute to the French composer Hector Berlioz at 150 years after his death.

The orchestra's musicians performed Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" premiered in 1830, a symphony described as a novelty for its time and which continues to surprise his listeners. Mention that it is the first of four symphonies composed by Berlioz and in this one he marked the love and heartbreak he experienced after meeting the actress Harriet Smithson.

On this occasion, OSUG had a first-rate guest, violinist Carmine Lauri who performed Glazunov's "Concerto for Violin". His interpretive mastery made the complexity of the concert go unnoticed. Lauri is one of the great violin figures in Europe and is a concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Another of the works they performed was Maurice Ravel's "Bolero", a piece that the composer wrote in 1928 for the dancer Ida Rubinstein that is characterized by the invariability of rhythm and tempo, as well as the obsessive repetition of the melody, formed by two themes. What the work masterfully articulates is the crescendo that is given continuously with each new entry of the subject, which in the orchestral version is given by a varied instrumentation.

It should be mentioned that the next presentation of the OSUG at the FIC will be next Saturday, October 19 at 20:00 hours on the esplanade of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in which they will accompany Fito Páez, one of the most important exponents of Argentine rock of the last 30 years.

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