The world premiere is part of the 65th anniversary celebrations of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato

Guanajuato, Gto., May 18, 2017.- As part of the 65th anniversary celebrations of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato (OSUG), they will have the world premiere of "Lucretius Tragicus", of the Mexican composer Jorge Torres Sáenz.

Jorge Torres, who formed with Jacques Charpentier and Alain Louvier in the Superior Music Conservatory of Paris, refers to the creative process of composing the play: "I composed this overture at the time I was analyzing the splendid text of Lucretius, De rerum natura. To read Lucretius' work today demands, not easy, to consider luck and contingency as founding points of our life, time, sensibility, creation and thinking."

"The tragic looks or listening emerge from a fragile coordinate, where the unusual still has a place, particularly in front of the dissolution of concepts such as solidity, certainty or permanence. Considered that every music and singing come from tragedy, in that sense, a particular form of jubilee which tenaciously affirms, despite not finding any justification or sense beyond joy itself, intertwined in the sound", he says.

The world premiere of "Lucretius Tragicus", is put together by plays requested by the University of Guanajuato, through OSUG, the commissioned Mexican composers were: Javier González Compeán, Adalberto Tovar and Jorge Torres himself.

The program, which will be held this Friday at 20:30hr in the Teatro Juárez, will have the Convert for violin and orchestra in e minor, op. 64 of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), author who, in word of the Catalan musicologist and composer Benet Casablancas, "is often considered with condescendence due to the unknown of the imminent subtlety of his art, he has an infallible occupation, where he would highlight the exquisite fluidity and perfection of writing, the precision and the extraordinaire effectivity of the instrumentation, and an unusual control of the form."

All these qualities are present in the Concert written in 1844 and in which stand out the melancholic tones of e minor, turning it into one of the most representative concerting plays of the romantic period.

Also, they'll play the Symphony no. 4 in f minor, op. 36 of Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), written between 1877 and 1878 is structured in four movements: Adagio – Moderato (attacca); Lento – Allegro molto; Adagio (attacca); Allegro – Allegro, ma non troppo. Through this symphony, Tchaikovsky proposes extreme movements to be interpreted without interruption with the second and third movement respectively, at the same time, he plans his work with a cyclic character.

This concert, which is part of OSUG's regular season, under the baton of their conductor, M. Roberto Beltrán Zavala, will participate Erika Dobosiewicz, from Warsaw, Poland, graduated with honorific mention from the Conservatory of Music Federico Chopin in Warsaw and postgraduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Gante, Belgium.

Derived from her activity in chamber music, Erika Dobosiewicz obtained the highest awards in international contests and festivals, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Contest, Germany, the Music Festival of Bayreuth, Germany, the International Contest of Chamber Music in Lodz, Poland and the Maurice Ravel Festival in Saint Jean de Luz, France, among others.

Likewise, they make an invitation for the pre-concert talk at 19:30hr sharp to precede the concert before OSUG's presentation in the Sala Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico City, which will set the starting point for its tour in Europe.

For more information, please visit: www.ugto.mx/osug