The Spanish Pablo Mielgo makes his debut as the new artistic director and head of the Symphony of the Americas orchestra in Fort Lauderdale.
The Spanish Pablo Mielgo, new artistic director and head of the orchestra Symphony of the Americas, is convinced that one of the few positive aspects of the pandemic is to have done that “let’s all spend time listening to music” Y “let’s admire more the direct in all the arts”.
On the eve of making his directorial debut with the orchestra of Fort Lauderdale, about 40 kilometers from Miami, Mielgo highlights the role that music, together with technology, has had in helping coping with the tough times of covid-19.
“Music has given a lot of hope and life in moments of loneliness, has been partner in difficult times (…) and helped the head and heart healing“, Underlines Mielgo, who reminds the public that now it’s up to him to help” keep her alive. “
“The show must go on (the show must go on), ”he says in English.
In a time of global uncertainty, people perceive that “the closest and what gives you pleasure are the arts“, That is why it is important to understand” the significance of what is behind “and to strive to” defend and protect a heritage that belongs to everyone”, He emphasizes.
“Music is not a consumable”, he points out, “it is the translation of the culture of what we are and what we come from.”
Balearic Islands and Florida united by a director
The Madrid musician He is going to combine his position as director of the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra (OSIB), in Mallorca (Spain), with its new responsibilities in the Symphony of Americas, the oldest active orchestra in South Florida.
“The life of a conductor is very attached to a suitcase,” he underlines without giving it importance.
This Tuesday, January 10, he will take up the baton in his debut concert as the headline of the Symphony of the Americas, Salzburg in Florida, a tribute to Mozart, with a program entirely dedicated to him and with the Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana as a guest soloist.
The concert is scheduled for February Between Rio and Pampa-South America’s Cultural Crossroads, a convergence of works by the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Argentine Alberto Ginastera.
“Theaters are safe zones, because if the protocol is respected there is no interaction, we have to break with fear ”, he says convinced that it will not be something that is achieved from one day to the next and more now that it is booming the contagious omicron variant of the new coronavirus.
In his opinion, it may be “two, three or even four years” until returning to what were the concerts prepandémicos.
Classical music gets stronger
After hearing canned concerts amid quarantines and confinements, the “miracle” of a large number of people coming together to “no cheat or cardboard” creating beauty, like a symphony orchestra, is a rising value, assures Mielgo.
Another of the positive effects of the pandemic in classical music that he has perceived, as other directors and musicians say, is the silence and the total attention of the public, something that previously only happened in Asia.
“It’s incredible, not a cough, not a candy,” he assures while vowing that it is not a passing phenomenon.
His purpose as director of the Symphony of the Americas is to make it a reference and make the “plural” of its name make sense not only with a look to the south but with a musical “hug” that encompasses the entire continent and takes into account European and non-European influences.
Mielgo emphasizes that the orchestra he is now beginning to conduct is, like South Florida, “a melting pot of cultures.” Among the musicians there are 17 nationalities, he highlights.
This Madrilenian from the traditional neighborhood of Embajadores has assisted directors such as James Conlon, Jesús López Cobos, Daniel Barenboim and Claudio Abbado and collaborated with orchestras such as Simón Bolívar Symphony, the Arena di Verona, the Qatar Philharmonic, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of China, the Royal Theater of Madrid, the Miami New World Symphony, El Sistema in Venezuela and the Florida Grand Opera.
In addition, he has founded three youth orchestras since 2003: the Presjovem Youth Orchestra, the Ibero-American Youth Orchestra and the Harmonia Symphony Orchestra.
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