Performances
Miami Symphony not ready for its Mahler close-up
The Miami Symphony Orchestra played music of late-19th-century Vienna Sunday night at the New World Center in Miami Beach. Path-breaking scores by Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Mahler were a formidable…
Mon Apr 02, 2012
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Vänskä strikes sparks with New World in Nordic program
A bracing blast of Nordic music came to Miami Beach Saturday, as the New World Symphony played works hailing from Finland and Denmark.
Leading the orchestra at New World Center…
Sun Apr 01, 2012
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Pulse Chamber Music serves up an eclectic and entertaining evening
“Bridges,” an arresting program of musical crossings between centuries and cultures, was presented by Pulse Chamber Music Friday night at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale. Despite a very small…
Sat Mar 31, 2012
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Fiterstein, De Rosa and Wosner team up for memorable chamber evening
Friends of Chamber Music presented an evening featuring clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, cellist William De Rosa and pianist Shai Wosner Wednesday night at UM Gusman Concert Hall. Works of Schumann and…
Thu Mar 29, 2012
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Stoltzman brings a veteran’s mastery to the Kravis Center
The classical world abounds in touring pianists and violinists. But clarinet virtuosos are rare creatures, and when the best-known master of that instrument, Richard Stoltzman, gave a concert Tuesday at…
Wed Mar 28, 2012
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Zukerman Trio presents fiery, full-blooded playing for Drucker’s return
The anticipated debut of Judy Drucker’s Great Artists Series on Tuesday night at the New World Center featured the Zukerman Trio in a generous program of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in…
Wed Mar 28, 2012
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Mexican soprano lifts Palm Beach Opera’s mediocre “Lucia”
Maria Alejandres made an impressive role debut as the tragic heroine of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Palm Beach Opera’s season-closing production at the Kravis Center.
Winner of Placido Domingo’s Operalia…
Mon Mar 26, 2012
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Pianist Gerstein displays vivid character in dance-inspired program
A bevy of colorful characters danced their way through a Sunday Afternoons of Music program by pianist Kirill Gerstein at Maurice Gusman Concert Hall.
Coming to the U.S. from Russia…
Mon Mar 26, 2012
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Guerrero, Cleveland Orchestra close Miami season in top form with warm Beethoven and rousing Respighi
The Cleveland Orchestra is concluding its annual Miami residency with a program that bookended Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 and Respighi’s Pines of Rome with Grieg’s Piano Concerto as the centerpiece.…
Sat Mar 24, 2012
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Modigliani Quartet has an uneven outing at Four Arts in Palm Beach
The Modigliani Quartet presented a highly uneven program of works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Dohnanyi on Sunday afternoon at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach. Winner of several…
Wed Mar 21, 2012
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Sarasota Opera presents a handsome, mostly effective staging of Barber’s “Vanessa”
As important and ambitious as Sarasota Opera’s long-running cycle of Verdi’s complete works has been, the company’s new American Classics series may well prove an even more significant and lasting…
Tue Mar 20, 2012
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Sleeper’s Violin Concerto receives an exceptional premiere at Gusman Concert Hall
For nearly two decades Thomas Sleeper has been director of the University of Miami’s Frost Symphony Orchestra. He has consistently drawn performances from his young musicians that have exceeded the…
Tue Mar 20, 2012
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Tenor Davila brings electrifying intensity to Sarasota Opera’s “Otello”
At long last, Otello.
It’s taken 23 years for Sarasota Opera’s Verdi cycle to finally reach the composer’s late masterwork. Part of the problem was logistical—until the company’s theater renovation…
Sun Mar 18, 2012
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De Leeuw, New World serve up powerful experience with Messiaen’s epic “Turangalîla”
Pounding, throbbing music, as loud as any South Beach club and infinitely more colorful, shook the hall as the New World Symphony roared through Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Turangalîla-Symphonie Saturday night.…
Sun Mar 18, 2012
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Kim’s bravura performance sparks Sarasota Opera’s “Lucia”
After Friday night’s dismal Carmen at Sarasota Opera, there was nowhere to go but up with Saturday’s Donizetti matinee. And while not quite a Lucia di Lammermoor for the ages,…
Sun Mar 18, 2012
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Sarasota Opera stumbles with a clinker of a “Carmen”
Sarasota Opera is known to mavens far beyond the borders of the toney retirement community on Florida’s Gulf Coast for several reasons: the superb conducting and ambitious artistic leadership of…
Sat Mar 17, 2012
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Denyce Graves returns to Broward Center for a mixed recital
A sea of empty seats greeted the mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves as she stepped onto the stage of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Fort Lauderdale hall looked to…
Sat Mar 17, 2012
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Seraphic Fire brings the English Renaissance to stirring life in wide-ranging program
Renaissance choral music has long been a mainstay of Seraphic Fire’s repertoire. After surveying the Spanish Renaissance at its season opener in October, the chamber choir presented “The Tudors: A…
Thu Mar 15, 2012
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Jerusalem Quartet displays tonal beauty and artistic intensity at Four Arts
Few chamber ensembles produce the sheer beauty of tone of the Jerusalem String Quartet. The four young musicians, who performed Sunday at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm…
Mon Mar 12, 2012
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Andai conducts Miami Symphony in engaging avian program
The Miami Symphony Orchestra’s “Flamingo” concert took flight at the University of Miami’s Gusman Concert Hall on Saturday night in one of their best performances of the season. Two bird-themed…
Sun Mar 11, 2012
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