PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico City’s Philharmonic Orchestra (OFCM) will offer a free Christmas concert in the capital’s central plaza Zócalo on Saturday, Dec. 10, starting at 6 p.m. Under the direction of guest conductor Eduardo Álvarez, the orchestra will perform a collection of both traditional Mexican and international holiday music, in what will constitute the OFCM’s final performance of 2022.
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a preview to the Mexico’s internationally acclaimed two-day Day of the Dead celebrations, which are observed each year on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, more than 600 ghoulish skeletons, zombie-like walking dead and fantastic multihued creatures took to the streets of Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 29, in a promenade of horror and moribund fun. This
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Sunday, Aug. 28, was Mexico’s National Day for the Elderly, and while many of the country’s 12 million-plus over-60 citizens suffer from a barrage of health limitations such as diabetes, hypertension and glaucoma, a large segment of the gray-is-beautiful set turned out at the capital’s iconic Monumento de la Revolución to strut their stuff and show that
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) opened a monthlong symposium of Japanese-Mexican art on Saturday, Aug. 20. The multidisciplinary symposium, which is set to run through Sunday, Oct. 2, includes presentations of Japanese theater, music, cinema, visual arts and a video art installation, as well as the first International Colloquium of Art and Culture Studies Ibero
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican dance troupe Lagú Danza will present a modern ballet inspired by contemporary science and technology at Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 8 p.m. Based on theories of quantum physics. Lagú Danza dancer and choreographer Érika Méndez has created scenic proposals that demonstrate the link between science
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As part of the celebration of her 92nd birthday, renowned Mexican actress Teresa Selma will star in a special one-night-only performance of “El Consultorio de la Dra. Spellman” (“The Office of Dr. Spellman”), a one-person monologue written by Jaliscan actor and playwright Alberto Estrella about a psychoanalyst who takes on the personalities of all her patients, at
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The iconic Mexican rock band La Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio packed Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza on the night of Saturday, July 16, with a free concert attended by an unprecedented 110,000 people. Decked out in their signature baggy suits and feathered hats, La Maldita Vecindad band members performed almost their entire repertoire as
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In an unprecedented celebration of Germany’s Father of Romantic Music, Mexico’s Philharmonic of the Arts will offer a festival of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, presenting all nine of his symphonies over a five-day period, beginning on Wednesday, July 20. The Beethoven Fever festival, which will mark the 15th anniversary of the Philharmonic of the Arts,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in 1936, German composer Carl Orff cobbled together a collection of 24 profane medieval poems and set them to music to create an original cantata which he called “Carmina Burana.” His impelling composition quickly became popular and a staple piece of Germany’s classical music repertoire. Over the years, “O Fortuna,” the opening and closing movement of
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexico City Museum, a subsidiary of the capital’s Culture Secretariat focusing on modern art, is due to open three new exhibitions on Saturday, June 18. All three exhibits — “Lavender City, Queer Art Biennial,” “Cycles” and “Origins”– are being presented within the framework of Mexico City’s Month of Diversity celebrations and showcase art related to or
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