Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero. Tonight, the Cleveland Orchestra opens a series of three concerts that celebrate love between two humans as well as the love of humanity in general. The love story of composer Peter Lieberson and his wife, mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, is told in the Neruda Songs, which Lieberson based on five of Chilean […]

Lara St. John. Photo by Martin Kennedy Some new music is coming to the Sunday Afternoons of Music series this weekend with a recital by the fine Canadian violinist Lara St. John, who will play a fresh-off-the-stocks work by the New Zealand composer John Psathas. The son of Greek immigrants, Psathas wrote music for the […]

Le Poème Harmonique. Photo by Guy Vivien If it’s March, it must be time to celebrate the music of the Baroque, and this Friday, the 14th iteration of the Miami Bach Society’s Tropical Baroque Festival gets under way. The Society, founded more than two decades ago by the University of Miami’s Donald Oglesby, routinely gathers […]

Jessye Norman and New World fellows in John Cage’s “Song Books.” Photo by Rui Dios-Aidos There are concerts and there are concerts, and then there are explosions of art, bursts of concentrated, disciplined energy that sweep in like a wind and leave everything leveled and changed. Such was the performance I saw Feb. 9 at […]

The Tuneful Tales ensemble, from left: Becky Taylor, Larysa Pavelek, Kayla Zuckerman, Spencer Stromquist, David Taylor and Julia Paine. Valentine’s Day isn’t just for lovers. It’s for kids, too, at least as far as the Miami Piano Circle is concerned. And this morning, they’ll be hosting Tuneful Tales, a group of classical children’s music performers, […]

John Cage (1912-1992). For young people, John Cage is something of a hero. So says Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust, which administers the affairs of the composer, inventor, philosopher and all-around artist who made such a remarkable impact on the music of the 20th century. “Young people just fall in love […]

John Cage (1912-1992). John Cage was one of the great provocateurs, inventors and innovators of his time, and of his art. A measure of his influence even now, some 21 years after his death, can be measured in the blowup that’s followed a highly critical essay by Daniel Asia in The Huffington Post, to which […]

The finale of the 2012 Winter Jewish Music Concert at Temple Beth Israel. Some concerts and news happenings on the classical scene: Winter Jewish Music Concert: Not solely a classical concert, this event organized by Alan Mason of Temple Israel of Greater Miami will take place for the fifth time this Saturday night in the […]

Nadine Sierra. It’s another very busy weekend for classical music in South Florida, and one that includes the Simone Dinnerstein Goldberg Variations recital at the Knight Concert Hall, which promises to be a memorable piano event. But among the other things happening that same Sunday is the appearance in the Sunday Afternoons of Music series […]

Soprano Sydnee Waggoner. Things are about to get very busy here for classical fans, and so here’s a short look at what’s coming in the next few days: What if Works recital: If you’re still hoping to hear just a bit more holiday music before Epiphany, there’s a free concert tonight at the First Presbyterian […]

Orchestra Miami’s poster for Amahl and The Night Visitors. The story goes that composer Gian Carlo Menotti, blocked on his commission for a Christmas opera for television and running out of time, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, hoping to clear his head and think of something else. There, he stood […]