San Miguel de Allende has its own symphony orchestra. Do you know what that means?

It is the central gem in our cultural crown.

The city, for its small size, sparkles with opera, chamber music, writers, painters, and poets. (You know the saying, “If you aren’t an artist when you move to San Miguel, you will soon become one.”)

For the longest time, we’ve gotten by on occasional fly-bys from big-city orchestras and the wonderful youth symphony adventures.

Last night marked an epochal change in the music landscape in San Miguel, and we barely saw it coming. (Lucky you, if you attended the symphony’s preview performance last November. You knew, didn’t you?)

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