Elliott Carter (1908-2012). On Saturday, the American composer John Adams returns to the New World Center for a concert featuring the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the New World Symphony in one of his new works, Absolute Jest, and one of his established pieces, Slonimsky’s Earbox. Adams is one of a handful of people on […]

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). The Cleveland Orchestra opens its annual Miami residency this Friday and Saturday with the Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, which at 100 minutes long and six movements is his longest, most sprawling orchestral work. In doing so, the Cleveland makes Miami more of a Mahler city, joining Miami Beach’s annual presentations of […]

Red Priest in performance. It’s a good weekend for early music, with return visits by two groups that do their best to make music of ages long past live for modern audiences. This year’s concert series at St. Martha’s in Miami Shores begins with a concert Sunday afternoon by Red Priest, the British quartet that […]

Students in the Miami Choral Academy program. One day not too long from now, youth choral groups might be as ubiquitous and popular nationwide as Pop Warner football teams. That’s the goal, in any case, of the Miami Choral Academy, whose director, Shawn Crouch, is working to develop a curriculum based on the academy’s work […]

C.F. Ramuz, left, and Igor Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat was written originally as a work that could be done with minimal numbers of players and actors, and in any old kind of performance space. Stravinsky and writer C.F. Ramuz wrote the piece in 1918, at the very end of the war that had […]

Shaker children’s chairs, circa 1840, Enfield, Conn. This week and weekend have almost the same level of classical arts activity that’s typical of the busier parts of the season. As well as Festival Miami, which continues Sunday with a youth orchestra event, there are plenty of worthy concerts in line over the next few days: […]

Anton Kuerti. Earlier this year the young South Korean pianist HJ (Hyun-Jung) Lim caused a mini-sensation in the classical world when EMI released her recordings of the complete 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven. The recording debuted in the top berth of the Billboard and iTunes charts before coming down, but not before Lim, who had […]

The Delray String Quartet, from left: Tomas Cotik, Mei Mei Luo, Richard Fleischman and Claudio Jaffe. Photo by So-Min Kang The first debate of the presidential campaign takes place tonight in Denver, and this weekend in Miami Beach, a local South Florida string quartet is chiming in with music that evokes the country from sea […]

Shelly Berg. On Tuesday, the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami presents the 29th iteration of its Festival Miami, a monthlong series of concerts that covers the genre waterfront from Rachmaninov at his biggest to a tango ensemble, from a Brazilian jazz trio to a lone songwriter on a stage with a […]