South Florida Classical Review

TOP TEN PERFORMANCES OF 2008
Inspirational keyboard performances dominated local stages in 2008 with a third of the top ten performances coming from feats of pianistic [...]

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The French horn is the wild card of the orchestra, an instrument that can be majestic, thrilling, evocative and richly expressive. It’s also a tortuous [...]

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This weekend offers a unique opportunity to experience a musical form that is indigenous  to Spanish culture but remains as distant and mystifying to most [...]

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Tradition is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action or behavior.” By that standard, Seraphic Fire’s performance of [...]

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It’s hard to believe there was once a time when a commercial television network would not only air regular classical performances but actually commission a [...]

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A decade ago, a teenage cellist performed a demanding recital of Bach, Brahms and Tchaikovsky at North Park College in Chicago. While interpretively unseasoned in [...]

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Rigoletto ain’t pretty. Sorry to be so blunt. But for pretty, go to later Verdi calling cards, the likes of La Traviata, A Masked Ball, [...]

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 It’s not for nothing that the twelfth string quartet published by Antonin Dvorak is one of the most popular works in the entire genre.
Few string [...]

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The New World Symphony’s final orchestral program of 2008 centers on cornerstone German repertoire, with two works by Beethoven and Brahms that, surprisingly, have been [...]

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What a bleak, pitiless landscape Rigoletto inhabits. Even by the standards of Verdi’s cold-eyed Realpolitik, the Mantua court is godless and unforgiving, a milieu where [...]

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People coming together in order to accomplish something of a positive nature seems to be a rarity in these times. Yet the Master Chorale of [...]

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Donald Rosenberg, former classical music critic of The Plain Dealer, is suing his paper and the parent company of the Cleveland Orchestra following his reassignment after protests [...]

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The major piano suites of Maurice Ravel have for years been among the most reliable tests of a pianist’s technique.
 And judging by that criteria alone, [...]

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Beyond paintings, palettes, and parking and traffic hassles, Art Basel has provided music audiences with some benefits, notably an added New World Symphony program timed [...]

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The Ukrainian-born Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman gave a blazing performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Sunday afternoon in Boca Raton, using the very violin once [...]

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 Since taking over as Concert Association of Florida CEO from founder and long-time guiding light Judy Drucker, Al Milano’s tenure has been most visible on [...]

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Conductor Eduardo Marturet has chosen a popular program with a Latin twist for his latest outing with the Miami Symphony Orchestra. Saturday’s concert at the University [...]

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Few composers offer such a study in stark contrast between their art and their person as Morton Feldman. Burly and cigar-chomping, Feldman worked in the [...]

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There is a plethora of musical events to choose from this Art Basel weekend, including Michael Tilson Thomas leading the New World Symphony in Beethoven’s mighty [...]

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Dec. 4. Florida Grand Opera: Verdi’s La Traviata. Ailyn Perez, Leonardo Capalbo, Mark Walters/Aldo Sisillo 8 p.m. Broward Center, Fort Lauderdale. $21-$200. 800-741-1010; www.fgo.org.
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