Archive for January, 2010
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February 28
Palm Beach Opera
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Gezim Myshketa, Pamela Armstrong, Juliana Di Giacomo, Denis Sedov, Vale Rideout, Irene Roberts, Bradley Smoak, Peter Volpe/Bruno Aprea, conductor
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Sun Jan 31, 2010
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Cleveland Orchestra provides worthy mix with Beethoven and Bernstein
In the fourth year of its winter residency in Miami, the Cleveland Orchestra is showing greater confidence in its approach to its audience. While the orchestra initially felt compelled…
Sat Jan 30, 2010
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Slimmed-down Seraphic Fire a bit too chaste in mixing the sensual and spiritual
Patrick Dupre Quigley certainly has a lot to say. This gifted and prodigiously well-informed conductor of the vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire gave spoken introductions to all the pieces…
Sat Jan 30, 2010
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Third-rate playing creates static for Moscow Radio Symphony at Kravis
The heart sank with the first wind chord of the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, as it opened the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra’s all-Tchaikovsky program at the Kravis Center…
Wed Jan 27, 2010
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Fauré Piano Quartet delivers unforgettable performance in Palm Beach
If you make regular rounds of the many chamber music performances available during the season, you’re going to encounter a wide range of good-to-excellent concerts, that will make you…
Mon Jan 25, 2010
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Haiti benefit to be presented by Cleveland Orchestra and New World Symphony
The Cleveland Orchestra and New World Symphony will join forces Wednesday for a concert to raise money for medical care in earthquake-stricken Haiti.
The hastily organized event takes advantage of…
Mon Jan 25, 2010
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Malkki, New World bring extraordinary focus to Finnish music
The New World Symphony hit the Finnish theme hard in their marketing campaign for Saturday’s Sounds of the Times concert featuring music of Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg with the…
Mon Jan 25, 2010
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Fine cast in FGO’s “Lucia” undermined by obtrusive stage direction
As traditionally performed, Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor is two-and-a-half hours of Scottish castles, mist-shrouded lakes, swordsmanship and tragedy.
Florida Grand Opera swept most of this…
Sun Jan 24, 2010
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Palm Beach Opera scores with intense and powerful production of Verdi’s “Otello”
Many opera fans learn to live with partial successes, accepting the difficulty of achieving excellence in such a collaborative art form. But Friday evening…
Sat Jan 23, 2010
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Josefowicz soars in Adès concerto with Cleveland Orchestra
Following a one-day strike by the musicians and late-night contract settlement earlier this week, the Cleveland Orchestra opened its annual Miami residency on Friday night at the Arsht…
Sat Jan 23, 2010
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Agreement reached in Cleveland Orchestra strike
After a 30-hour negotiating session, striking Cleveland Orchestra musicians and management reached an agreement early Tuesday morning, bringing the ensemble’s 24-hour strike to an end and allowing its Miami concerts…
Tue Jan 19, 2010
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In any language, Bruno Aprea is making an impact at Palm Beach Opera
The stormy opening of Verdi’s Otello clangs from an upright piano. About two dozen people in street clothes, looking as ordinary as citizens showing up for jury…
Mon Jan 18, 2010
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Zwilich’s new Septet receives a brilliant Florida premiere
While quartets and trios abound in the chamber music literature, septets are extremely rare. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created just such a work for the unusual instrumental combination of…
Mon Jan 18, 2010
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Cleveland Orchestra is on strike
The musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra went on strike Monday, fulfilling their vow to carry through with a work stoppage over an ongoing wage dispute with management.
Wearing concert…
Mon Jan 18, 2010
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Firebird Chamber Orchestra provides high-voltage jump to Vivaldi
In the collective hands of soloist Adda Kridler and the one-year-old Firebird Chamber Orchestra, Vivaldi’s hopelessly overplayed Four Seasons emerged Friday night as the bizarrely beautiful piece it is,…
Sat Jan 16, 2010
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Richard Goode brings insight and intimacy to Bach and Haydn in Palm Beach
From the presentation of the first half of his Palm Beach recital Wednesday night, it wasn’t hard to imagine that Richard Goode had invited the audience into…
Thu Jan 14, 2010
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Perlman’s recital at Arsht Center charms capacity audience
After five decades on the concert stage, Itzhak Perlman has become an iconic, larger than life artistic personality and entertainer. A near-capacity audience for his recital Tuesday night at…
Wed Jan 13, 2010
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Firebird Rising: chamber orchestra to open second season with a fresh look at Vivaldi
In a series of concerts in South Florida this week, the Firebird Chamber Orchestra will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a work you may haveheard in airports, department stores, hotel lobbies, coffee shops, bookstores,…
Mon Jan 11, 2010
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Cleveland Duo and saxophonist make strong case for offbeat trio
Many years have passed since the saxophone became a “legitimate” instrument for inclusion on non-jazz recital programs. More composers have contributed to the instrument’s repertoire since the…
Mon Jan 11, 2010
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MTT makes rare appearance as pianist in substantially Scandinavian program
When musicians attempt to conduct from the keyboard or concertmaster’s chair, the results are sometimes successful, sometimes a crude expedition in which everyone seems happy just to begin and…
Sat Jan 09, 2010
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