{"id":212266,"date":"2026-03-20T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:17:09","slug":"plano-symphony-announces-2026-27-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212266\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Symphony Announces 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In last Thursday\u2019s (3\/12) <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/pso-music-director-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plano Magazine<\/a>\u00a0(Texas), Alyssa High writes, \u201cPlano Symphony Orchestra\u2019s 2026-2027 season, the 44th for the organization, is kicking off with a special season, one with performances by candidates for Music Director H\u00e9ctor Guzm\u00e1n\u2019s position as he goes into his last season before shifting into emeritus status. The five finalists\u2014M\u00e9lisse Brunet, Filippo Ciabatti, Gonzalo Farias, Jacob Joyce and Stilian Kirov\u2014will each lead one concert, with an audience survey following each performance to assist with the selection process. The season will also include an event on June 24 called \u2018Breaking Classical,\u2019 where FLY Dance Company will join the orchestra, blending hip hop and classical music. On August 15, Broadway star Joshua Henry will join PSO in \u2018Get Up, Stand Up!\u2019\u2026 \u2018Thank you, Maestro,\u2019 on April 17, 2027: This culminating farewell concert brings the season\u2014and a remarkable era\u2014to a triumphant close with Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, crowned by the unforgettable \u2018Ode to Joy.\u2019 \u201d Composers for the coming season include Copland, Gershwin, Barber, Bernstein, Berlioz, John Williams, Tchaikovsky, Morricone, Mendelssohn, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, and Manuel de Falla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In last Thursday\u2019s (3\/12) Plano Magazine\u00a0(Texas), Alyssa High writes, \u201cPlano Symphony Orchestra\u2019s 2026-2027 season, the 44th for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[32067,160,162,161,33339],"class_list":{"0":"post-212266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-conductors","9":"tag-plano","10":"tag-plano-headlines","11":"tag-plano-news","12":"tag-repertoire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}