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Announcing a Special Free Community Concert!

In case you missed the last beautiful program of the Hardman Quartet at our Salon event in May, here is a chance to experience it in the architect designed historic African American church right in the middle of the Arts District!

Sun, Aug 31, 11am 

St. Paul United Methodist Church

1816 Routh St

Free Community Concert at Open Sunday Service

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The Hardman Quartet is led by ONS violinist Jackson Hardman with colleagues Diana Norwood on second violin, Dana Hurt on cello, and Marco Santistevan on viola. The program starts with Joseph Bologne, String Quartet No. 1 in C Major; Mozart, String Quartet in G Major; followed by Florence Price, String Quartet in G Major that found echoes in Anton Dvorak's lively String Quarter No. 12 in F Major; concluding with Samuel Coleridge Taylor's 1897 Novelletten. 

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​​Season 2025-26 Highlights!

September 20th- Composers of Vienna and Madrid: Haydn, Mozart, Courcelle

Christ the King Catholic Church, 7:30 PM
By 1700, Spain was no longer part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the court remained closely involved with Vienna and its music through Farinelli and musical exchanges during previous centuries.

This concert features Nicholas Garza, one of the few extraordinary male altos, who will sing arias of the Bourbon Court composer Francisco Courcelle's opera, Achilles in Sciro.


November 1st - Mandolin and Guitar in History
Salon Concert at the home of Barbara Bradfield, 3 PM

Featuring Dan Kyzer & Stephen Lochbaum


Music around this exotic instrument include works by Vivaldi, Sanz, Scarlatti, Granados, and Themes from The Godfather (Mandolin and Guitar).

Dan Kyzer, a Mandolin specialist on the faculty of Dallas College, has a busy teaching schedule for guitar, as well as organizing festivals. Adjunct professor of classical guitar Stephen Lauchbaum is a polymath of guitar, having trained at U Victoria in classical guitar (including with Pepe Romero) as well as jazz, winning top Canadian and US prizes and building a successful performance career before joining UNT for his doctorate in baroque guitar.

Salon concert to be held in the elegant White Rock Lake residence of music patron Barbara Bradfield.

January 4th - Epiphany at Christ the King

Christ the King Catholic Church, 6 PM

Padre Antonio Soler and the Christmas villancico:

While the Court celebrated Epiphania with the panoply of orchestra and chorus, Antonio Soler created music of the common people with the witty tales of everyday Spanish life.


February 15th - Harpsichord and Piano with Malcolm Matthews

Salon Concert at the home of Richard and Enika Schulze, 3 PM
Newly hired by UNT as Assistant Professor of organ and harpsichord, Malcolm Matthews will bring one of his harpsichords to charm us with a variety of compositions for that instrument --from Early music to baroque and much more!

Hosted in the music room of prominent art patrons Enika and Richard Schulze.


March 27th-28th - Pulcinella and El Amor Brujo

Moody Performance Hall, 7:30 PM

Double bill of Stories in Dance with Avant Chamber Ballet

Pulcinella: Reimagined  by Igor Stravinsky and El Amor Bruno by Manuel de Falla. Stravinsky took a baroque model and made the 20th century's modernism a classic! El Amor Bruno takes un into the people and land of Andalucia in this one act ballet famous for its Ritual Fire Dance.

Choreography by ACB Director, Katie Puder and Fernanda Olivera. With Mezzo-Soprano Carla Lopez Speziale and costumes by Fernando Hernandez

Family showing of Pulcinella Jr. - Saturday Matinee, 3:30 PM at Moody


April 23rd - Music in the Museum

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, 5 PM

Join us at the Meadows Museum for Mercado Español

Sponsored by 2025 Festival: Celebrate Spain Open galleries of the exhibit of the the Art of Jose Madrazo (1781-1859) scion of a family of 19th c. artist.

Stay for concert of ONS costumed vocal soloist performing lively tonadillas of that epoch.


May 2026 - Home and Garden Concert

Location & Time TBD
Chamber music hosted in the private home of ONS arts patron.

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Thank you to all subscribers and friends for
your support this season!

Our season is proudly sponsored by:

Carlson Foundation
Richard & Erika Schulze Foundation
Hoblitzelle Foundation
Moody Fund for the Arts
Don & Norma Stone
Ray & Martha Quigley
Richard & Alice Stevenson

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Did You Know...

The orchestra gets its name from the present area of Texas and Mexico which was originally called New Spain by the Spanish explorers. We present music from 'Old' Spain in the land of New Spain.

ORCHESTRA OF NEW SPAIN
11615 Forest Central Dr. Ste 206, Dallas, TX 75243

Pegasus Musical Society 501(c)3 dba Orchestra of  New Spain

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