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Gerard Schwarz and the Palm Beach Symphony wrapped their season in style Monday night with virtuosic Chopin and stirring...
20/05/2025

Gerard Schwarz and the Palm Beach Symphony wrapped their season in style Monday night with virtuosic Chopin and stirring Beethoven.

The Palm Beach Symphony ended its season Monday with a program that contained nothing that would have surprised an audience in 1890.

Julien Libeer brought a typically thoughtful and imaginative program centered on Maurice Ravel to close the season for t...
19/05/2025

Julien Libeer brought a typically thoughtful and imaginative program centered on Maurice Ravel to close the season for the Miami International Piano Festival.

Julien Libeer performed a recital for the Miami International Piano Festival Sunday at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center.

Guest soloist Reginald Mobley joined the Master Chorale of South Florida for a populist feast of American song to close ...
10/05/2025

Guest soloist Reginald Mobley joined the Master Chorale of South Florida for a populist feast of American song to close their season.

One repeat Saturday afternoon in Boca Raton.

Countertenor Reginald Mobley was a guest soloist with the Master Chorale of South Florida Friday night in Fort Lauderdale.

Donald Oglesby, an educator and pioneering advocate and conductor for Bach and Baroque music in Miami, passed away April...
07/05/2025

Donald Oglesby, an educator and pioneering advocate and conductor for Bach and Baroque music in Miami, passed away April 19, age 77.

Don Oglesby was a crusading advocate for Baroque repertoire at a time when it was difficult to draw audiences in Miami for that literature. The flowering of choral groups and repertoire in the area owes much to his pioneering work.

Edward Gardner closed the New World Symphony's season with revelatory Bartok.
07/05/2025

Edward Gardner closed the New World Symphony's season with revelatory Bartok.

British conductor Edward Gardner exudes uninhibited energy on the podium. That unflagging pulse radiates in every bar of the music he leads. Conducting the New World Symphony’s final program of the season Saturday night at the New World Center, Gardner delivered a broadly scaled, expressive readin...

Led by Daniel Harding, the Cleveland Orchestra soared in a performance of Holst's "The Planets" at the Arsht Center.One ...
03/05/2025

Led by Daniel Harding, the Cleveland Orchestra soared in a performance of Holst's "The Planets" at the Arsht Center.

One repeat Saturday night.

Daniel Harding conducted the Cleveland Orchestra in an all-English program Friday night at the Arsht Center. Photo: Julian Hargreaves

Alexander Fiterstein and Asiye Korepanova closed a transitional season for Friends of Chamber Music with works for clari...
30/04/2025

Alexander Fiterstein and Asiye Korepanova closed a transitional season for Friends of Chamber Music with works for clarinet and piano Tuesday night in Coral Gables

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein performed a recital with pianist Asiya Korepanova for Friends of Chamber Music of Miami Tuesday night in Coral Gables.

Gerard Schwarz and the Frost Symphony Orchestra wrapped their season with a program of colorful orchestral showpieces Sa...
27/04/2025

Gerard Schwarz and the Frost Symphony Orchestra wrapped their season with a program of colorful orchestral showpieces Saturday night.

Gerard Schwarz conducted the Frost Symphony Orchestra Saturday night at Gusman Concert Hall. File photo: Savannah Methner

A gifted young cellist made his New World Symphony debut and Stephane Deneve led revelatory Berlioz Saturday night.
20/04/2025

A gifted young cellist made his New World Symphony debut and Stephane Deneve led revelatory Berlioz Saturday night.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason performed Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Stéphane Denève and the New World Symphony Saturday night. Photo: Mahaneela

Dalia Stasevska made a most impressive New World Symphony debut with lesser known music of Sibelius.
16/04/2025

Dalia Stasevska made a most impressive New World Symphony debut with lesser known music of Sibelius.

Few composers’ works embody their native surroundings as much as those of Jean Sibelius. Finland’s forests, icy peaks and dark winters literally jump off the page in his music. He also gave voice to his nation’s folklore in his tone poems which are among the greatest ever written in that genre...

Florida Grand Opera's lurid "Carmen" proved more show biz than Bizet.
16/04/2025

Florida Grand Opera's lurid "Carmen" proved more show biz than Bizet.

Georges Bizet’s Carmen is one of opera’s timeless masterpieces. Long a great introduction to the art form for neophytes, the work tends to transcend and survive the most varied directional concepts.

Seraphic Fire wrapped its season with rare music by women composers and a Vivaldi masterwork.
16/04/2025

Seraphic Fire wrapped its season with rare music by women composers and a Vivaldi masterwork.

In Baroque era Italy, cloistered nuns played a vital musical role, many composing as well as singing in their convents. Although they were not allowed to be seen publicly, their performances (usually behind screens) attracted listeners and visitors on their grand tours of Europe. Musicologists have....

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