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  Theater Review

  ‘War Horse’ casts a simple yet powerful spell

  Driven by its stunning life-sized puppets, a play explores the bond between man and animal.
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  Jazz

  Trumpeter extraordinaire Harrell makes rare S. Florida appearance Saturday

  Now tuneful, now intricate, always smartly constructed, the post-bop jazz of trumpeter, composer and arranger Tom Harrell sounds fresh even at its simplest. On any of his excellent recordings, it continues to reveal its layers even after repeated hearings.
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  Classical music review

  Polish pianist Blechacz makes dazzling Miami debut

  The young Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz made a dazzling Miami debut in a recital that ranged from the Baroque to late Romantic eras at Florida International University’s Wertheim Auditorium, a joint presentation of Friends of Chamber Music and the Chopin Foundation of the United States.
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  Classical music review

  New World Symphony’ caps 25th season in a blaze of Beethoven

  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.
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  Classical music review

  Marturet, Miami Symphony close season with rich Brahms program

  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.
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  Classical music review

  Cypress Quartet closes Sunday Afternoons season with virtuosity and integrity

  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.
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  South Florida Arts Scene

  Mad Cat stages world premiere in new home in Miami Shores

  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.
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  Classical music

  For Dranoff Competition teams, 20 fingers are better than 10

  It isn’t easy when four hands share 88 keys.
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  Performing arts

  Performance artist Rudi Goblen is a master of re-invention

  Voracious virtuosity has propelled Rudi Goblen to the top of Miami’s live-arts scene
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  ‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Matilda’ lead the Tony race

  Pop icon-turned-composer Cyndi Lauper scores as nominations for the 67th annual awards are announced.
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  Dance

  Miami City Ballet’s ‘Dances at a Gathering’ not all there

  Something subtle but crucial was missing from Dances at a Gathering, the evanescent Jerome Robbins masterpiece Miami City Ballet is dancing for its fourth and final program of the season. The obvious pieces were in place at Saturday’s performance at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale: the 10 dancers executed the choreography well, sometimes thrillingly so.
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  South Florida Arts Scene

  Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis to headline Jazz Roots

  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.
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  Opera review

  FGO closes season with a dramatic, vividly sung ‘Traviata’

  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.
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  Theater Review

  Anne Frank and Emmett Till meet in a flawed play

  Despite common threads, the stories of two tragic teens don’t mesh in the new AAPACT production.
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  Classical music review

  Pulse trio showcases living composers in eclectic program

  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.
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  Dance review

  Peck’s piece for MCB duo a vivid part of New World’s ‘New Work’ program

  The pas de deux Justin Peck created for Miami City Ballet was just one element of the New World Symphony’s “New Work” evening, but Chutes and Ladders, vibrantly performed by Jeanette Delgado and Kleber Rebello, made a vivid impression even amid the rich array at New World Center Saturday.
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  Classical music review

  Master Chorale marks a decade with four conductors leading a mixed program

  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.
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  Classical music review

  New World’s ‘New Work’ program a cornucopia of creativity

  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.
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  Opera review

  Baritone a bright spot in FGO’s weak second-cast ‘Traviata’

  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.
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  ‘Anne & Emmett’

  Playwright and journalist Janet Langhart Cohen, wife of former defense secretary William S. Cohen, imagines a meeting between Anne Frank (Zasha Shary) and Emmett Till (Shawn Burgess) in ‘Anne & Emmett.’ The African American Performing Arts Community Theatre is presenting the memory play about the two famous teen victims of hatred and prejudice at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, 6161 NW 22nd Ave., Miami, through May 12. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Regular tickets are $20 ($25 for Saturday’s opening performance; $15 for first weekend Friday and Sunday performances). Call 305-456-0287 or visit www.aapact.com.

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