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Maestro Devin Patrick Hughes will lead the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra (LCSO) in its Classics 3 concerts, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 13, in Atkinson Recital Hall in the New Mexico State University Music Building, 1075 N. Horseshoe St. on the NMSU campus.
Hughes is currently the music director and conductor of the Boulder Symphony in Boulder, Colorado, and Arapahoe Philharmonic in Littleton, Colorado. He is one of the candidates to become permanent LCSO director, succeeding Director Emeritus Lonnie Klein, who retired last June.
The March 12-13 concerts will include performances of “Four Dances from Estancia,” by Alberto Ginastera; Dances of Galánta, by Zoltán Kodály; “Lilia Polka,” by Barbara Harbach, from a piece composed by Kate Chopin; and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 7.”
Hughes previously held artistic leadership positions with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association, Denver Young Artists Orchestra and Denver Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tickets are $42.53, $47.68 or $52.83, depending on where you sit in Atkinson Recital Hall. They are available online at lascrucessymphony.com (click on “Classics 3” for either Saturday, March 12, or Sunday, March 13) or by calling 877-466-3404.
Visit devinpatrickhughes.com.
