In talking the other day to Eduardo Marturet, music director of the Miami Symphony Orchestra, the conductor dropped a phrase I hadn’t heard before: “horizontal empowerment.” It’s central to the Miami Symphony’s operational strategy, he said, which spreads out the responsibilities involved in mounting concerts. “It’s a model for the symphony orchestra which doesn’t happen [...]
Earlier this month, the composer Carlos Rafael Rivera sent along an MP3 of his Concierto de Miami, a trumpet concerto that had its premiere in late October with the great jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval as the soloist. I wasn’t able to attend the concert, so I’m grateful to Rivera for sending me the recording. This [...]
Earlier in the year, I spent some time listening to two newer recordings with good South Florida connections, and I don’t know that they got a lot of attention at the time, so here’s my effort at redressing that. The first was a Naxos disc called Reflections of wind band music by the American composers [...]
Allison Eldredge solos with the Miami Symphony on Sunday. How does one go about rebranding a symphony orchestra? If you’re the Miami Symphony Orchestra, you get this message across: We want to be a world-class orchestra, and we’re taking big steps to get there. The group has hired its first director of development, has a [...]
