Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra hopes to entice audiences with her love of classical music through a new multidisciplinary performance in which she pairs an orchestra and a clown on stage. De la Parra, who has conducted more than 100 orchestras, including the London Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris, embraces a new format with The Silence of Sound, and puts musicians on stage rather than in the pit. Through classical pieces, the orchestra plays a key role in the storytelling as the clown searches for fulfilment. “The stories we tell in this show are just some out of the many possible