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Sunday Afternoons to close season with world premiere
The Coral Gables concert series called Sunday Afternoons of Music is best known for presenting first-rate soloists and ensembles in fairly traditional repertoire. But this [...]
Wed May 19, 2010
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Spanish pianist set to make a comeback at Miami Piano Festival
Just before a concert in Italy, the young Spanish pianist Claudio Martínez Mehner began to experience pain in his right arm after an intensive session [...]
Sun May 09, 2010
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Julian Kreeger marks a quarter-century of bringing the finest chamber music to Miami
Mischa Elman was displeased.
The legendary Ukrainian violinist, famous for his gorgeous tone, had just read an article in The New York Times on the world’s [...]
Wed Apr 28, 2010
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Pianist Jeremy Denk brings intelligent, irreverent approach to music and career
It was winter in Lander, Wyoming, and the pianist Jeremy Denk had just finished a recital. Well-wishers were coming backstage, but there wasn’t much time [...]
Fri Apr 02, 2010
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Lang Lang finds balance between artistry and superstar status
Lang Lang has emerged as the leading superstar of today’s classical-music world, yet clearly the 27-year-old Chinese pianist is also attempting to balance his high-profile celebrity with [...]
Thu Mar 25, 2010
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Seraphic Fire in its element with Handel’s “Israel in Egypt”
By performing Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt this week, Seraphic Fire will be working squarely in its element.
While the Miami choir has an enormous range — from Gregorian [...]
Tue Mar 23, 2010
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Olga Kern finds the Russian heart of music in Rachmaninoff
It was the late 1990s in Boris Yeltsin’s Moscow, and the young pianist Olga Kern was enduring the most difficult period of her professional life.
After [...]
Thu Mar 18, 2010
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David Finckel and Wu Han find the right balance on and off the stage
For one musician, managing the myriad timing and logistical details of rehearsal, performance, and travel can be a daunting task.
So imagine the situation when two [...]
Tue Mar 16, 2010
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Growing up with the Buffalo Philharmonic
As children, my brother, sister and I haunted the shadowy backstage tunnels of Kleinhans Musical Hall, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s modernist home at the edge [...]
Wed Mar 10, 2010
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Celebrated soprano Kiri te Kanawa returns to Broward Center Tuesday
For nearly four decades Dame Kiri te Kanawa’s star has shone brightly on the international opera and concert stages.
Yet, while recent seasons have found most [...]
Thu Mar 04, 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 [...]
Fri Feb 19, 2010
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Leonard Slatkin seems the right conductor at the right time to lead the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
When Leonard Slatkin became music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the winter of 2008, he soon made a change in the life of [...]
Wed Feb 03, 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 [...]
Mon Jan 18, 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, [...]
Mon Jan 11, 2010
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Top 10 Performances of 2009
This year’s South Florida Classical Review top ten list is a joint effort with the baton handoff on reviewing duties coming in early May. WIthout [...]
Thu Dec 24, 2009
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Zukerman and Forsyth, partners on stage and off
Many wives learn to tolerate their husbands’ irritating habits. And then there is the unique burden borne by Amanda Forsyth, wife of the eminent Israeli-born [...]
Sun Dec 13, 2009
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At a time of cutbacks, a Florida string quartet expands to three counties
On a quiet street in Davie, in a living room crammed with musical memorabilia including a glowering bust of Beethoven, members of the Delray String [...]
Sun Nov 29, 2009
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After eight years, James Judd returns to Florida podium to conduct “Messiah”
The converted garage in the home off Las Olas Boulevard is clearly the lair of a master musician. The upper shelves are stuffed with CDs [...]
Mon Nov 23, 2009
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New World Symphony to get a New York state of mind this weekend
The contemporary music scene of New York comes to Miami Beach this weekend, as the New World Symphony adds an electric guitar to its roster [...]
Tue Nov 03, 2009
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A Venezuela-born Italian bass is rising to great heights
Since his 2001 professional debut, Luca Pisaroni has made headlines in the musical press around the world. The Italian opera singer won the “Newcomer [...]
Thu Oct 22, 2009
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