This weekend coming up is a good one for music, as a large chamber music festival gets under way Sunday, the same day a children’s choir performs a remarkable opera that is at once an anti-bullying statement and a poignant reminder of the Holocaust. The Mainly Mozart Festival, now in its 19th year, is situated [...]
Aside from its political and commercial global familiarities (Evita Peron, gauchos, big sides of beef), Argentina can boast major literary figures such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and even Manuel Puig. It also has some considerable classical musical figures, such as Alberto Ginastera. But the most well-known of its composers worldwide is surely Astor [...]
Premieres of fresh classical music often get heralded in the bigger cities of this country and elsewhere, but even though South Florida might not have that kind of profile, it still gets a reasonable share every season of new pieces. This afternoon in Coconut Grove, a string quartet will give two performances of a work [...]
Cellist Alban Gerhardt. Seems like all anyone wants to do these days is talk about Art, as in ArtBasel. But if you’re more inclined to the sonic arts, this is a good week for classical music-making here in South Florida. Here are six events that make that point: Haydn and Brahms: One of the better-known [...]
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 [...]
