{"id":368661,"date":"2026-07-10T20:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:27:18","slug":"el-paso-symphony-announces-96th-season-augmented-with-visuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368661\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Symphony Announces 96th Season, Augmented with Visuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday\u2019s (7\/5) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/entertainment-news\/el-paso-symphony-orchestra-ready-for-96th-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KTSM<\/a> (El Paso, TX), Dave Burge reports, \u201cThe El Paso Symphony Orchestra is getting ready for its 96th season. Maestro Bohuslav Rattay, the sixth conductor in El Paso Symphony Orchestra\u2019s (EPSO) long history, is currently in his 13th season and will once again lead the orchestra\u2026. The classical series will open \u2026 with an innovative visual concerto titled \u2018M\u00e1gico \u2013 The Magic of Mexico,\u2019 featuring music and images of Mexico\u2019s colorful heart, weaving together a vibrant tapestry of the people, places, and everyday life across 18 states. The EPSO, led by conductor Rattay, will perform Moncayo\u2019s \u2018Tierra Temporal\u2019 and M\u00e1rquez\u2019s \u2018Danz\u00f3n No. 2,\u2019 set to visuals by photographer and multimedia artist Nicholas Bardonnay, projected on screen.\u201d The remainder of the season includes works by Richard Strauss, Mahler, Ravel, Poulenc, Peter Boyer, Gershwin, and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k; and appearances by soprano Meechot Marrero (Strauss\u2019 Four Last Songs and Mahler Symphony No. 4) and Broadway actor and singer, Arielle Jacobs (\u201cChristmas on Broadway\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Sunday\u2019s (7\/5) KTSM (El Paso, TX), Dave Burge reports, \u201cThe El Paso Symphony Orchestra is getting ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33337,138,140,139,33339],"class_list":["post-368661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-artistic-planning","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-repertoire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368661","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=368661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}