It’s always interesting to see a dustup at a major music competition, when audience and judges disagree, or the judges themselves differ, about the merits of a particular contestant. This kind of thing has gone on for a long time and includes famous examples, such as Ivo Pogorelich’s elimination in 1980 from the third round [...]
This year promises to be an unusually fine one for those of us who love the art of the piano. Beginning with Chopin Competition winner Claire Huangci this Sunday at Festival Miami and ending next May with Lang Lang at the Arsht Center, an impressive parade of keyboard artists is making its way through South [...]
Walk into the Locust Projects space and it looks like something has smashed through the walls of a South Beach hotel — okay, not something, but what we all know and fear, a hurricane. The installation from New Yorker Valerie Hegarty, “Break-Through Miami,” is at first glance
This Saturday at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, the Eighth Annual Chopin Competition gets under way, as 21 young pianists vie for prizes and concert bookings before a jury of established figures in the world of classical music. This is the Chopin bicentenary year (he was born March 1, 1810), which adds special import to the [...]
Frederic Chopin, photographed in 1849, the year of his death. The next few years in the world of classical music are replete with bicentennial anniversaries of the births of several composers whose music fills much of the core repertory: Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin (1810); Franz Liszt (1811); Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi (1813). Look [...]
