Archive for August, 2008
New-look Festival Miami to open at Arsht Center with tribute to Corigliano
The 25th anniversary of Festival Miami is the first to bear the imprint of Shelly Berg, jazz pianist and the Frost School of Music’s dean. [...]
Sat Aug 30, 2008
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Chorale to have new master this season
When the Master Chorale of South Florida opens its fifth season this fall, it will also mark a new chapter in the organization’s history. The [...]
Wed Aug 27, 2008
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A big box for an exquisite vox
Remember Caballé? Remember the LP? If you don’t, now is the time to refresh your memory The lady is celebrating her 75th birthday and Sony/BMG [...]
Tue Aug 26, 2008
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Perlman and Boca together again
If you love Itzhak Perlman, you’ll definitely like the 2009 installment of the Boca Festival of the Arts, which will fete the celebrated violinist in [...]
Tue Aug 26, 2008
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Miami Lyric Opera closes season in style
Vocal programs of isolated opera arias are often the musical equivalent of a chicken salad lunch—it sates the appetite, there’s nothing heavy, and usually no [...]
Sun Aug 24, 2008
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Late summer arias on Lincoln Road
South Florida’s opera season is months away, but Miami Lyric Opera will offer a summer sampler this weekend with a showcase of popular arias. The [...]
Fri Aug 22, 2008
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A box of Heifetz
I waited so long to write about the Jascha Heifetz Sony Original Jacket Collection ($79.98 at Amazon) that the label has since released three more [...]
Wed Aug 20, 2008
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Requiescat in pace
Jack Zink, longtime theater critic and cultural affairs writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, died today at 10:30 a.m. at his home, with his wife [...]
Mon Aug 18, 2008
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The desert song
Notes from a week of opera in Santa Fe:
For opera fans who have yet to make the trip, a sojourn to New Mexico for Santa [...]
Sat Aug 16, 2008
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Violence without, family secrets within—and endless debate about both
SANTA FE: The milieu of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater is at once distant and uncomfortably familiar: a bleak, nocturnal landscape inhabited by rifle-carrying terrorists and [...]
Sun Aug 10, 2008
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Bizarro Handel plot mended by stylish staging, glorious singing
SANTA FE: Even by the bewildering standard of Handel’s opera narratives, the plot of Radamisto is, well, Baroque.
Tiridate, king of Armenia, is in love with [...]
Sat Aug 09, 2008
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Good vs. evil on the high seas, set to music by Britten
SANTA FE. While Peter Grimes was an instant success, Benjamin Britten’s second-most-performed opera, Billy Budd, took a while to secure its place in the repertoire. [...]
Thu Aug 07, 2008
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Memorable Mozart singing let down by subpar conducting
SANTA FE. Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is operatic titanium, an indestructible three hours of some of the finest music every put to paper, spiced [...]
Wed Aug 06, 2008
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A fat, drunken English knight in the New Mexico desert
SANTA FE. You drive the 58 dusty miles from Albuquerque to Santa Fe across a barren desert landscape ringed by mountains and spotted with sagebrush [...]
Tue Aug 05, 2008
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The Concert Association column you did not read in the Miami Herald
A bit of background: In June Dan Chang reported in the Miami Herald that the Concert Association of Florida has made an offer to the [...]
Sun Aug 03, 2008
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Chamber Festival closing on several high notes
The Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival is concluding its four-week series on a high note, as demonstrated by the terrific concert Friday night at the [...]
Sat Aug 02, 2008
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Cellist strikes a fire in Coral Gables
Gaps on the local classical music scene are so numerous, that one sometimes isn’t even aware of a specific absence until the void is filled. [...]
Fri Aug 01, 2008
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