Archive for February, 2010
19-year-old captures top prize at National Chopin Competition
The competition was grueling, certainly for the audience, which heard five performances of Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E Minor over the course of two days.
In the end, the jury…
Sun Feb 28, 2010
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Soprano Kiehr and colleagues open Tropical Baroque Festival in style
The Miami Bach Society’s eleventh annual Tropical Baroque Music Festival commenced with a winning evening of vocal and instrumental scores from the Italian Baroque Saturday night at St. Phillip’s Episcopal…
Sun Feb 28, 2010
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Inspired cast and creative staging put a new gloss on an old villain in Palm Beach Opera’s “Don Giovanni”
Palm Beach Opera’s effective new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni skips the usual approaches to a work encrusted with tradition.
The highly regarded young Italian director Stefano Poda designed an…
Sat Feb 27, 2010
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Bach to the future with Firebird’s delightful take on the Brandenburgs
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has offered infinite interpretive possibilities to performing artists. From the spectacular Hollywood sound of Leopold Stokowski’s orchestral transcriptions to Virgil Fox’s…
Sat Feb 27, 2010
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With steep highs and lows, FGO’s tribute to Heuer reflects his quarter-century at the helm
Florida Grand Opera’s “Evening to Remember” gala honoring Robert Heuer’s twenty-five years as general director on Wednesday night at the Arsht Center mirrored Heuer’s tenure with the…
Fri Feb 26, 2010
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Ying Quartet offers depth and brilliance in rarities at Frost
The Ying Quartet jettisoned the originally announced scores by Schumann and Beethoven Tuesday night in favor of rare Haydn and late Mendelssohn string quartets. With Leos Janacek’s Quartet…
Wed Feb 24, 2010
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Fine singing upstaged–again–by crude stage direction in FGO’s “Barber”
Performances of Rossini’s Barber of Seville rarely err on the side of subtlety, and such was the case with the Florida Grand Opera production that opened Saturday at the Arsht…
Sun Feb 21, 2010
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FGO to stay with four-opera season in 2010-2011
Florida Grand Opera has announced four operas for next season, sticking with the shortened schedule imposed on it by the difficult economy.
The schedule includes two warhorses, Puccini’s Turandot and…
Sun Feb 21, 2010
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Sleeper’s “Xenia” receives worthy premiere alongside showpieces by Bartok and Rimsky
The University of Miami’s Frost Symphony Orchestra played to a capacity crowd Saturday evening at Gusman Concert Hall, presenting two sonic blockbusters and the premiere of a new composition by…
Sun Feb 21, 2010
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Spano and New World unite in blazing performance at Arsht Center
Robert Spano is one of America’s finest conductors. A first-class orchestral technician, Spano leads a wide array of repertoire with flair and bracing vitality. Music director of…
Sun Feb 21, 2010
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With an alarming moment, Miami Symphony provides gleaming performances of Prokofiev and de Falla
“A Valentine’s Nostalgia” was the theme of the Miami Symphony Orchestra’s concert Friday night at Gusman Concert Hall.
The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet might not exactly fit…
Sat Feb 20, 2010
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Miami’s Chopin Competition to showcase top American pianists
The music of Frederic Chopin has exerted a unique spell on pianists for over one hundred and fifty years. Chopin’s synthesis of Polish musical nationalism and brooding passions of…
Fri Feb 19, 2010
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Paris Piano Trio shines in Brahms and Rachmaninoff
Late in life Johannes Brahms developed an affection for the clarinet, producing several chamber works built around the wind instrument’s capacity for melancholy lyricism.
The well-known Israeli-American clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein joined…
Thu Feb 18, 2010
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Joshua Bell displays lively Romantic fervor at the Broward Center
Joshua Bell has attempted to balance the dual careers of concert violinist and crossover celebrity, including a series of recordings of film music and questionable collaborations with pop stars.…
Tue Feb 16, 2010
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Platt’s farewell concert with Boca Symphonia a worthy showcase
Sunday afternoon brought Alexander Platt’s final appearance as the Boca Raton Symphonia’s principal conductor. Next year Phillipe Entremont takes the helm of what has become one of…
Mon Feb 15, 2010
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Slatkin, Detroit Symphony deliver a sumptuous performance at Kravis Center
In programming Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Florida tour, music director Leonard Slatkin clearly knew how to show off his orchestra.
This was as…
Thu Feb 11, 2010
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Claremont Trio turns in uneven performance in Palm Beach
A large audience turned out on Sunday afternoon for a concert by the Claremont Trio at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach. A rarity by Spanish cellist…
Tue Feb 09, 2010
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Historic Lincoln Theatre to be gutted, converted to retail
The New World Symphony has sold the Lincoln Theatre to a company that plans to gut the theater interior and renovate the space for retail shops, bringing to an…
Tue Feb 09, 2010
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Eroica Trio serves up gleaming performances of Dvorak and Cassado
Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor remains one of his most celebrated chamber works. Titled the “Dumky,” because of its use of several Dumka—-folksongs alternating happy, sad,…
Sun Feb 07, 2010
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Glazunov given warm advocacy by revamped Delray Quartet
The Russian composer Alexander Glazunov is remembered today primarily for his Violin Concerto, his ballets and his mentorship of the young Shostakovich.
But this late romantic composer,…
Sun Feb 07, 2010
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