It’s no secret that it’s a troubling time for classical music in Detroit. The nearly six-month old Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians’ strike continues, leaving the Max M. Fisher Music Center largely silent. But as the avant-garde composer and philosopher John Cage spent much of his life and career insisting, there’s no such thing as silence, [...]
It has been a very long time since any Christmas carolers came to my door, and even longer since I went myself, as a youngster. But I remember distinctly walking the frozen streets of our northern Illinois hometown, singing along with a group of people I think were from church or high school, or a [...]
String quartet ensembles are hot these days, and a news release Tuesday from the Flagler Museum on Palm Beach reminded me of that when it announced the lineup for its series of chamber music concerts that begin Jan. 11 of next year and run through March 8. It’s worth looking at the websites of a [...]
The Amernet String Quartet. The Mainly Mozart Festival is in full swing at the Westin Colonnade in Coral Gables, and for the next two weekends, the Amernet String Quartet takes on music mainly not by Mozart, but the festival is still a good way to catch some chamber music as the hurricane season gets under [...]
From left: Laszlo Pap, Mei-Mei Luo, Richard Fleischman and Claudio Jaffé. It’s too early to call it in an invasion, but one Palm Beach County-based string quartet is expanding this season to venues in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The Delray String Quartet, founded six years ago out of the collapse of the Florida Philharmonic, has [...]
