The New World Symphony capped its 25th season with the joyous C major finale of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The orchestra sounds better than ever these days, with virtually impeccable technical execution, great musical sensitivity and a youthful vigor and sense of discovery to its playing.
The Miami Symphony Orchestra concluded an impressive 2012-13 season with an all-Brahms program at the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall. Music director Eduardo Marturet has recorded the four Brahms symphonies, and he brings a special passion to the German master's scores.
The Cypress String Quartet demonstrates that an ensemble can play with virtuosic brilliance without neglecting the integrity of the music. In their Sunday performance at Gusman Concert Hall, which concluded the Sunday Afternoons of Music season, the players captured the music’s essence with nuanced interactions, careful attention to blend and balance and thoughtful interpretations.
Mad Cat Theatre Company, which has called the Miami Light Project’s Light Box home since its 2000 founding, is moving to the Miami Theater Center, 9816 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores, where it will perform its edgy original work in MTC’s 50-seat SandBox.
It isn’t easy when four hands share 88 keys.
Pop icon-turned-composer Cyndi Lauper scores as nominations for the 67th annual awards are announced.
Guitarist Pat Metheny and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will headline the 2013-14 Jazz Roots series, which goes on sale Monday.
Outstanding singers, sumptuous sets and a firm sense of the dramatic created a moving evening of opera in Florida Grand Opera’s opening-night performance of Verdi’s La Traviata at the Arsht Center in Miami.
Pulse Chamber Music provided an eclectic program highlighting living composers for the Sunday Afternoons of Music concert series at the University of Miami’s Gusman Hall.
With the exception of a terrific baritone, a decidedly weaker second cast took the stage Sunday in Florida Grand Opera’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata.
The New World Symphony’s second annual multimedia cornucopia of new music, dance, film and poetry drew a full house to New World Center. The program fully utilized the building’s state-of-the-art audio and visual resources in a program that celebrated artistic creativity with consistently high musical and production values.
The Master Chorale of South Florida threw itself a 10th birthday party over the weekend, inviting all of its previous artistic directors back to conduct a concert performed in three venues.
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, hosts its 18th annual National Children’s Theatre Festival Kids Fest from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.
The University of Miami’s Frost Opera Theater is presenting the premiere of Entanglements, by faculty member Charles Norman Mason, which consists of 20 scenes, many presented simultaneously in the galleries of the Lowe Art Museum on the UM campus. The audience is encouraged to wander and observe snippets, the musical equivalent of sound bites.
In 2005, a 10-year-old pianist named Conrad Tao performed at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale, one of two child prodigies presented in the Miami International Piano Festival.
India Jazz Suites: The Fastest Feet in Rhythm pretty much spells out what will be going down Saturday at the South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center. The event is a high-speed hybrid of ancient Indian moves and contemporary tap, created by Kathak dance master Pandit Chitresh Das and celebrated tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith.
Pianist Zoe Zeniodi, the protagonist of a recent University of Miami program of music by Thomas Sleeper, returned to the stage of Gusman Concert Hall over the weekend to continue her in-depth exploration of the Frost School of Music professor’s keyboard works.
Violist Roberto Díaz, president of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, performs frequently in South Florida chamber concerts and has served as a coach for the young musicians of the New World Symphony. He appeared at New World Center in Miami Beach with his wife, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, in a sometimes-too-energetic performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the New World, shrunken for the occasion to 18th-century proportions.
It is the most popular opera in the repertoire. La Traviata has been programmed by Florida Grand Opera no fewer than 11 seasons, a record tied only by La Bohème and Madama Butterfly. Around the world, it is the opera staged more than any other, with 629 performance runs in the past five years, according to the Operabase website.
Seraphic Fire is celebrating 500 years of Spain in Florida with a unique overview of music from “The Golden Age of Spain.” Artistic Director Patrick Quigley has done considerable research into Spanish vocal music of the 14th through 16th centuries, unearthing scores that have rarely been performed by contemporary choral ensembles.
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