The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, with LPO Music Director and Principal Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto, will present the gift of music to north shore audiences at a “Baroque Christmas” concert. It will be held Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mandeville High School auditorium, 1 Skipper Drive just off West Causeway Approach in Mandeville.
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"The Frankfurt public welcomed this colorfully rich work [Copland El Salón México] with the utmost appreciation. With Shostakovich Symphony No. 6, the second part of the concert illustrated Prieto's mastery... even in the greatest climaxes of sound, he draws clear lines, extracts structures and controls dynamics brilliantly."
Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto...offered the cellist [Yo-Yo Ma] strong and flexible support. ...The Lalo [Cello Concerto in d] was the middle course of Prieto's promising debut. ...After intermission came Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances.... ...Prieto guided the orchestra with a steady sense of its winding architecture, and brought it to an exciting close."
"Prieto took over the podium with confidence, shaping rhythmically pointed and gorgeously colored interpretation of two ballet classics: the second suite from Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, from 1919, and Igor Stravinsky's 1947 revision of his 1911 work, Petrouchka..."
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"Two vivid personalities join the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on stage this weekend at Kleinhans Music Hall. One is the Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto."
"the orchestra, led by Carlos Miguel Prieto, played with dynamism and subtlety"
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