Archive for January, 2009
Welser-Most, Cleveland Orchestra victorious in Shostakovich
The Cleveland Orchestra opened their 2009 Miami season heard but unseen as the gold-plated pit band for Miami City Ballet’s Balanchine performances Thursday night at the Ziff Ballet Opera House.
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Sat Jan 31, 2009
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Budapest orchestra shows fiery brilliance in lightish program
The Adrienne Arsht Center was effectively converted into a cafe on the bank of the Danube Wednesday night with Tokay flowing freely, paprikash and palacsinta served, and Hungarian musicians providing…
Thu Jan 29, 2009
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Soprano approaches life with Wagnerian intensity
Consider this: the first classical vocalist to inaugurate the Knight Concert Hall is also a tireless musicologist, a singer equally at home performing opera and Weimar cabaret songs, a…
Wed Jan 28, 2009
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Florida Grand does Rossini right with charming, delightful “Cenerentola”
“Dying is easy, comedy is difficult,” said the actor Edmund Gwenn. Certainly that’s true on the opera stage as much as for legitimate theater. The broad strokes of…
Mon Jan 26, 2009
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Second cast “Norma” proves first class in Palm Beach
In bel canto, unlike other operatic genres in which music can take a secondary role to the action, it’s critical that the singing be strong enough to carry the audience…
Sun Jan 25, 2009
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Bell shines brightly, Mahler a mess with New World Symphony
The New World Symphony’s downtown concerts have become an effective recruiting poster for both classical music and the Miami Beach orchestra. The lineup of big-name soloists and accessible—but not predictable—programs…
Sun Jan 25, 2009
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Love and death among the Druids: Swenson lifts a routine “Norma” in Palm Beach
In the words of an old Monty Python sketch, it really is “too silly, too silly.” Druids versus the Romans via an implausible love triangle, the cutting of the sacred…
Sat Jan 24, 2009
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Pianist Sudbin shows power, not always poetry
As they say in the sports world, Friends of Chamber Music of Miami is having a winning season. Julian Kreeger’s series presented charismatic singer Kate Lindsey last week, and on Feb.…
Thu Jan 22, 2009
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Santa Fe Guitar Quartet bring Latin warmth to Flagler Museum
Despite their growing popularity, guitar quartets simply aren’t that commonplace. So when a music series schedules this “other” string foursome not once, but three times over three consecutive seasons, it…
Thu Jan 22, 2009
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Concert Association to abandon its Broward Center series
The Concert Association of Florida will drop its Broward Center lineup next season, drawing the curtain on a series that brought the world’s top classical artists and orchestras to Fort…
Wed Jan 21, 2009
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Fast-track Russian pianist to make Miami debut
Music aficionados with an interest in first-class keyboard talent should make the trek to Florida International University Wednesday night to hear Yevgeny Sudbin make his South Florida debut.…
Mon Jan 19, 2009
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Mozart-Salieri smackdown closes Firebird’s debut season in style
The third and final program of the Firebird Chamber Orchestra’s inaugural season served up just the kind of a smart, stylish, concise — less than ninety minutes — music-making that…
Mon Jan 19, 2009
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Naples Philharmonic makes decent if nonrevelatory showing at Kravis
In its appearance at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic, under guest conductor Stuart Malina, chose a program of safety and familiarity. Sunday night’s performance…
Mon Jan 19, 2009
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Evan Ziporyn opens New Music fest with jazzy flair
The bass clarinet is a strange beast, an instrument that resembles a chrome-plated gardening tool yet is capable of an array of sounds from floor-shaking bass to ethereal…
Sun Jan 18, 2009
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Joshua Bell returns for first New World date in two decades
Joshua Bell has been such a high-profile presence for so long on the international music scene, he’s one of those artists that sometimes is taken for granted.
Sun Jan 18, 2009
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Rising mezzo Kate Lindsey shows first-class artistry
Due to scheduling snafus at Gusman Concert Hall, Friends of Chamber Music has been forced to present two of this season’s events at Wertheim…
Thu Jan 15, 2009
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Irish orchestra makes rough-edged debut in Russian program
In the lobby you could learn about tourism packages to the Emerald Isle, and in the program, there was a letter of welcome from the Irish president herself. In the…
Thu Jan 15, 2009
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Florida Grand Opera to cut back productions in 2009-2010
Florida Grand Opera will eliminate one production from its 2009-2010 season, presenting just four operas for the first time in decades.
The cost-cutting move is in response…
Wed Jan 14, 2009
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Perlman scolds, cajoles, and charms Kravis audience
Itzhak Perlman was part raconteur, teacher and etiquette scold Monday night at his recital before a sold-out hall at the Kravis Center in West Palm…
Tue Jan 13, 2009
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Platt, Boca Symphonia glorious in Dvorak rarity
The Boca Raton Symphonia introduced Dvorak’s Symphony No. 5 in what may well be its belated South Florida premiere, Sunday at the attractive Roberts Theater at Saint Andrew’s School. The Symphonia…
Mon Jan 12, 2009
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