2010
Tanglewood Music Center Ariadne Auf Naxos (8/2/2010) Freshly Minted Ariadne at Tanglewood Captures Strauss' Wit And Energy
Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition Finals Concert (4/25/2010) Maryland Soprano Takes Top Prize At Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition
Miami Lyric Opera Don Pasquale (4/22/2010) Miami Lyric Opera Opens Season With A Delightful Don Pasquale
Orchestra Miami Porgy and Bess (3/14/2010) Touring "Porgy and Bess" Proves Musically Inspired But Dramatically Superficial
2009
Miami Lyric Opera's Concert Version of Carmen a Mixed Bag of Bizet Miami Lyric Opera Carmen (9-24-09)
.Florida Grand Opera Madama Butterfly (4/25/2009)
. The Marriage of Figaro Florida Grand Opera (3/21/2009) .
. Florida Grand Opera Rossini: La Cenerentola (1/31/2009)
. Palm Beach Opera Bellini: Norma (1/23/2009) Magical Eloquence
. Florida Grand Opera Superstars Concert Series Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Ekaterina Siurina/ Constantine Orbelian Mozart/Wagner/Gounod/Verdi (1/10/2009)
2008
. La Traviata Florida Grand Opera (11/15/2008)
. Palm Beach Opera L'Elisir D'Amore (2/22/2008) Palm Beach Shines With Donizetti Gem
. Gold Coast Opera Madama Butterfly (2/19/2008)
. Florida Grand Opera The Pearl Fishers (1/26/2008) FGO's Beguiling Take on Bizet's 'The Pearl Fishers'
. Miami City Ballet Don Quixote (2/6/2009) Petipa/Minkus
. Miami City Ballet/The Cleveland Orchestra See The Music, Hear The Dancing Tchaikovsky/Stravinsky/Mendelssohn/ Bizet/Balanchine (1/29/2009)
. Miami City Ballet Villella/Taylor/Balanchine (1/9/2009)
. Miami City Ballet Balanchine Tchaikovsky/Balanchine-Hindemith/ Tharp-Glass (10/17/2008)
. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet At Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Pickett/Galili/Forsythe/Elo (8/14/2008) Passionately Breathtaking
. Ballet Florida Cleopatra (3/8/2008) Cleopatra A Spectacular Canvass of Rome and Egypt
. Ballet Gamonet Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros (2/8/2008) A Passion for Dance Program Highlights Varied Works of Troupe Founder Gamonet
. Trey Mcintyre/Ben Stevenson/ Lar Lubovitch (2/2/2008) Ballet Florida Stokes Lubovitch's Creative Flame
Frost Symphony Orchestra Thomas Sleeper/Zoe Zeniodi/ Bergonzi String Quartet Stravinsky/Bruckner (9-12-10) Frost Symphony Scales Heights Impressively With Bruckner
Tanglewood - August, 2010 Boston Symphony Orchestra Christoph Von Dohnanyi/Shi Yeon-Sung (8-6, 7, 8-10) Richard Goode/Hilary Hahn/Arabella Steinbacher Bernarda Fink (8/5/2010) Yo-Yo Ma/Silk Road Ensemble (8/8/2010)
Tanglewood Festival 2010 Boston Symphony Orchestra Charles Dutoit/Juanjo Mena Kirill Gerstein/Hei-Kyung Hong/Yo-Yo Ma (7-30, 31, 8/1/2010) Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Alexander Prior/Herbert Blomstedt (7/2/2010) Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra David Hoose (7/31/2010) Tanglewood Music Center Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos (8/2/2010)
Tanglewood Boston Symphony Orchestra Johannes Debus Mozart: Abduction From The Seraglio (7/23/2010) Herbt Blomstedt/Gilles Vonsattel Brahms (7/24/2010) Hans Graf/Lynn Harrell/Steven Ansell R. Strauss/J. Strauss II (7/25/2010) Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Keitaro Harada/Cristian Marcelaru/Alexander Prior Mendelssohn/Tchaikovsky/Hindemith (7/25/2010)
Peter Wispelwey Bach: Cello Suites (7/22/2010) Tanglewood 2010
Awadagin Pratt (7/15/2010) Beethoven/Schumann/Bach/Chopin/Liszt Pianist Pratt Brings Old Fashioned Virtuosity to Coral Gables
Orchestra Miami Elizabeth Caballero (6/12/2010) Elizabeth Caballero Delights Audience In Wide Ranging Recital
Seraphic Fire It Is Well With My Soul (6/9/2010) Seraphic Fire Kicks Off Summer Series With Enjoyable Gospel Program
Mainly Mozart Festival Amernet String Quartet Mozart/Shostakovich/Dvorak (6/6/2010) Amernet Quartet Delivers High Voltage Program At Mozart Festival
Mainly Mozart Festival Bergonzi String Quartet/Marina Radyushina Debussy/Bartok/Dohnanyi (5/30/2010) Bergonzi Quartet Serves Up Winning Program
Miami Symphony Orchestra Eduardo Marturet/Gilles Vonsattel Brahms/Tchaikovsky (5/7/2010) Pianist Makes Terrific Debut In Brahms With Miami Symphony
Delray String Quartet Arriaga/Tchaikovsky (4/10/2010) Delray String Quartet's Spanish-Russian Program Closes Season On A Mixed Note
The Cleveland Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy/Ingrid Fliter Glazunov/Chopin/Prokofiev (3/26/2010) Charm And Elan
New World Symphony Nicholas MeGegan J.S. Bach/Corelli/Vivaldi.C.P.E. Bach/Leclair (3/27/2010) McGegan, New World Go For Baroque
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra Christoph Eschenbach/Lang Lang Prokofiev/Beethoven (3/29/2010) Lang Lang Shows Fire And Maturity At Arsht Center
New World Symphony American Compatriots Randall Scarlata Barber/Menotti/Crumb (3/21/2010) New World Members Bring Impressive Commitment to Varied American Program
Miami Symphony Orchestra Eduardo Marturet/Tian Lu Romero/Beethoven/Schubert (3/20/2010) Miami Symphony Mixes It Up, From Vienna To Venezuela
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra JoAnn Falletta/Michael Ludwig Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninoff (3/12/2010) Buffalo Philharmonic Delivers Rich Toned Performances of Romantic Favorites
Festival Of The Arts Boca 2010 Russian National Orchestra Patrick Summers/Renee Fleming (3/6/2010) White Hot Intensity
Miami International Piano Festival Master Series Gulsin Onay Beethoven/Bartok/Chopin (3/8/2010) Onay Ends Impressively With Chopin and Ravel At Miami Piano Fest
Renee Fleming Stresses Hard Work and Ease Of Production At Frost Master Class
Celebrated Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa Returns To The Broward Center
Russian National Orchestra Patrick Summers/Yuja Wang Beethoven/Dvorak (3/3/2010) Yuja Wang Strikes Sparks At Kravis Center With Russian National Orchestra
New World Symphony Chopin 200 Lutoslawski/Janacek/Chopin/Tchaikovsky (2/28/2010) New World's Chopin Tribute Undone By Rough And Unready Playing
Tropical Baroque Music Festival Concerto Soave Handel/Scarlatti (2/27/2010) Soprano Kiehr And Colleagues Open Tropical Baroque Festival In Style
Firebird Chamber Orchestra Patrick Dupre Quigley/Kathryn Mueller Bach - The Bradenburg Project (2/26/2010) Bach To The Future Features Firebird's Delightful Take On The Brandenburgs
Florida Grand Opera An Evening To Remember With Steep Highs And Lows, FPO's Heuer Tribute Reflects His Quarter Century At The Helm (2/25/2010)
The Ying Quartet Haydn/Janacek/Mendelssohn (2/23/2010) Ying Quartet Offers Depth And Brilliance In Rarities At Frost
New World Symphony Robert Spano/Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (2/20/2010) Spano and New World Unite in Blazing Performance At Arsht Center
Miami Symphony Orchestra Eduardo Marturet/Mabel Ledo Prokofiev/De Fall/Bizet (2/19/2010) With An Alarming Moment, Miami Symphony Provides Gleaming Performances of Prokofiev and De Falla
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin/Sol Gabetta Berlioz/Barber/Rachmaninoff (2/14/2010) High Voltage
Joshua Bell/Jeremy Denk Bach/Grieg/Schumann/Ravel (2/15/2010) Joshua Bell Displays Lively Romantic Fervor At The Broward Center
New World Symphony Ludovic Morlot/Jennifer Koh Berlioz/Adams/Stravinsky (2/5/2010) A True Dynamo
Claremont Trio/Beth Guterman Beethoven/Cassado/Dvorak Claremont Trio Turns In Uneven Performance In Palm Beach (2/7/2010)
The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Most/Joela Jones Verdi/Bernstein/Beethoven (1/29/2010) A Class Of It's Own
The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst/Leila Josefowicz Strauss/Ades/Brahms Josefowicz Soars In Ades Concerto With Cleveland Orchestra (1/22/2010)
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio/ Miami String Quartet Zwilich's Septet Receives Brilliant Florida Premier (1/17/2010)
Perlman's Recital At Arsht Center Charms Capacity Audience Itzhak Perlman/Rohan De Silva (1/12/2010)
Salute To Vienna The Strauss Symphony Of America Klaus Arp/Ute Ziemer/Thorsteinn Arbjornsson Kiev-Aniko Ballet Of Ukraine (1/2/2010) High Energy Performance
New World Symphony Mark Wigglesworth/Edward Abrams Measha Brueggergosman Milhaud/Ravel/Berg/Strauss (12/19/2009) Compelling Vocal Drama
Zukerman and Israel Philharmonic Hit High Notes In Arsht Center Concert
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman/Amanda Forsyth Haydn/Bruch/Tchaikovsky (12/16/2009) An Impressive Showcase
Society of Four Arts The Tempest Trio Alon Goldstein/Ilya Kaler/Amit Peled (12/13/2009) Tempest Trio Provides An Electrifying Storm At Four Arts In Palm Beach
Master Chorale of South Florida Boca Raton Symphonia James Judd Sarah Shafer/J'Nai Bridges/ Joshua Stewart/Thomas Shivone Handel: Messiah (12/6/2009) Thoughtfully Conceived
Delray String Quartet Tao Lin Beethoven/Franck (12/4/2009) Delray String Quartet Displays Grace And Energy In Coral Gables Debut
Symphony of the Americas James Brooks-Bruzzese/Enrique Graf/ Ciro Fodere Mozart/Poulenc/Walton/Gutierrez/Margallanes (10/20/2009) Crystalline Lightness
Brazilian Classical Series Amazon Impressions: Tribute to Villa-Lobos Miami Symphony Orchestra Luiz Fernandez Malheiro/Simone Leitao/ Edna D'Olivera (11/20/2009) Villa-Lobos Tribute Launches Brazilian Music Series at Arsht Center
New World Symphony Alasdair Neale/David Krakauer/Edward Abrams Prokofiev/Golijov/Tchaikovsky (11/14/2009) Golijov's Moving "Isaac" Sparks Memorable New World Program
New World Symphony New York State Of Mind Jeffrey Milarsky Lang/Ziporyn/Gordon (11/7/2009) Multi-Media "Gotham" Is A High Voltage Whirl Of Sight And Sound
Seraphic Fire I'll Fly Away (11/6/2009) Seraphic Fire Swings And Soars In Gospel Program
Festival Miami John Clayton/Jeff Hamilton/ Frost Concert Jazz Band/Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra (10/30/2009) Festival Miami Ends In Style With All That Jazz
Festival Miami Kevin Kenner Chopin/Balakirev/Evans/Szymanowski/ Debussy/Crumb (10/28/2009) Pianist Kenner Displays Exceptional Gifts In Music Of Chopin And Others
New World Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas/Christine Brewer/ Kendall Gladen/Anthony Dean Griffey/ Luca Pisaroni Master Chorale of South Florida/University of Miami Frost Chorale/Joshua Habermann Beethoven (10/24/2009) New World's Beethoven Soars Under Tilson Thomas, Soloists
Anna Litvinenko At 15, South Florida Cellist Is On The Road To Success
New World Symphony Scott Yoo/Adasdair Neale/Michael Tilson Thomas/ Edward Abrams/Mikhail Simonyan (9-20, 26, 10-10-09) Incisive Performance
Festival Miami Frost Wind Ensemble Gary Green/John Bragle/Svet Stoyanov Ticheli/Bryant/Daugherty (10-14-09) Frost Wind Ensemble Gives Superb Ticheli Symphony A Fresh Look
Festival Miami Six Operas in Sixty Minutes Dennis Kam/Raina Murnak/Douglas J Cuomo/ Scott Stinson/Thomas Sleeper (10-13-09) If You Think Operas Are Too Long, Frost Opera Theater Offers A Brisk Alternative
Renee and the Russians to be in the spotlight at 2010 Boca festival
. Remenyi Ede Chamber Orchestra Summerfest 2009 James Brooks-Bruzzese/Laszlo Pap/Claudia Cagnossone/Endre Balog Vivaldi/Popper/Rachmaninoff/Wieniawski J.S. Bach/Orban/Lecuona-Munar (7-17-09)
. Miami International Piano Festival 2009 Severin Von Eckardstein/Stephen Beus/ Balazs Szokolay/Pablo Ziergler/Misha Dacic/ Hector del Cuto/Alexis Cardenas/ Misha Vitenson/Michael Klotz/Jisso Ok/ Pedro Giradudo/Nicolas Real/ Janet Harris/Alejando Lozada/Brian Potts (5-14, 15, 16, 17-09)
. Sunday Afternoons of Music Holocaust Rememberance Concert Misha Vitenson/Michael Klotz/Alon Goldstein/ Amit Peled Mahler/Klein/Stutschewsky/Schulhoff/Brahms (5-31-09)
. New World Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas/ Edward Abrams/Vladimir Feltsman Tchaikovsky (5/2/2009)
. Master Chorale of South Florida Joshua Habermann Music By American Composers Lauridsen/Copland/Bernstein (4/26/2009)
. Chameleon Musicians Iris van Eck/Amernet Quartet/Toby Appel Farrenc/Mendelssohn/Tchaikovsky (3/8/2009)
. The Cleveland Orchestra Kurt Masur/Louis Lortiec Beethoven (3/6/2009)
. Festival Of The Arts Boca Russian National Orchestra Mikhail Pletnev/Jeremy Denk Beethoven (3/10/2009)
. Boca Raton Symphonia Alexander Platt/Nancy Allen Lundy Mendelssohn/Ravel/Larsen/Tchaikovsky (2/8/2009)
. New World Symphony Corey Cerovsek/Paavali Jumppanen Mendelssohn (2/1/2009)
. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Most/Measha Brueggergosman Wagner/Shostakovich (1/30/2009)
. New World Symphony Vladimir Ashkenazy/Josua Bell Saint-Saens/Mahler (1/24/2009) Meltingly Beautiful
. Chameleon Series Iris van Eck/Kemal Gekic Locatelli/Mendelssohn/Ginastera/Prokofiev (1/18/2009)
. Boca Raton Symphonia Alexander Platt/Vadim Gluzman Stravinsky/Mozart/Tchaikovsky (12/7/2008) Grandly Romantic
. Master Chorale of South Florida Elijah Boca Raton Symphonia Habermann/Albert/Siebert/Penn/Cadelago (11/16/2008) Inspired Vision
. Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev/Alexei Volodin Wagner/Beethoven/Prokofiev (11/6/2008) Podium Celebrity
. New World Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas/Yuja Wang Delibes/Ravel/Stravinsky (10/18/2008)
. New World Symphony Alasdair Neale Sierra/Ginastera/Rachmaninoff (9/27/2008) Intense Leadership
. Farewell American Performances of the Beaux Arts Trio at Tanglewood Dvorak/Kurtag/Ravel (8/20/2008) Schubert (8/21/2008) Amernet String Quartet Schubert/Dankner/Dvorak (8/26/2008) Velvety Tones
. Seraphic Fire Music for Kings Patrick Dupre Quigley Handel/Mozart (5/16/2008)
. Concert Association of Florida Philharmonia Orchestra of London Christoph Von Dohnanyi Mendelssohn/Mahler (5/1/2008)
. New World Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas/Harald Horth/ Michael Werba/Rainier Honeck/ Tamas Varga/Rinnat Moriah Schubert, Berg And The Lyricism Of Vienna (4-26, 27-08) New World Symphony Ends Min-Festival With a Jolt
. New World Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas Seraphic Fire/University of Miami Frost Chorale Berg/Shubert New World Symphony Offers Stunning Voyage To Vienna
. New World Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas/YefimBronfman/ Steven Jarvi Smetana/Rachmaninoff/Prokofiev (4/12/2008) Yefim Bronfman On Piano Was Exquisite And Powerful
. Miami International Piano Festival Master Series Konstantin Lifschitz/Kit Armstrong/ Sijing Ye/Kemal Gekic/William Noll (3/30, 3/31, 4/1/08) Master Series Dazzles With Keyboard Virtuosity, Bach Marathon
. The Cleveland Orchestra Israel At 60 Celebration Concert Michael Stern/Shai Wosner Prokofiev/Mozart/Beethoven (3/26/2008)
. New World Symphony John Adams/Tracy Silverman (3/22/2008) Adams Conducts New World Symphony In Radiant, High Energy Performance
. Concert Association Of Florida State Symphony Orchestra of Russia Mark Gorenstein/Denis Matsuev Tchaikovsky/Prokofiev/Rachmaninoff (3/17/2008) State Symphony Harks Back To Russian Traditions And Soviet Roots
. Festival Of The Arts Boca Russian National Orchestra Alondra De La Parra/Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway/Conrad Tao Mozart/Overton/Schubert (3/12/2008) Flutes Are Magical At Mizner
. Festival Of The Arts Boca The 5 Browns (3/12/2008) The 5 Browns Dazzle Fitfully at Boca Fest
. Seraphic Fire Patrick Dupre Quigley/Josua Copland/ Suzanne Hatcher Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (3/7/2008) Miami's Seraphic Fire Offers Smaller, Gentler Version of Brahms Score
. The Cleveland Orchestra Kurt Masur/Louis Lortie Beethoven (3/6/2009)
. Chameleon Musicians Michael Klotz/Iris Van Eck/Misha Dacic Haydn/Bartok/Enescu/Liszt/Dvorak (3-2-08) Chameleon Series Ends Season With Emotional Depth
. Boca Raton Symphonia Alexander Platt/Julia Bentley Haydn/Britten/Beethoven (2/10/2008) Boca Raton Symphonia Puts On Vivid, Crisp Performance
. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Most/Radu Lupu Stravinsky/Mozart/Ades (2/1/2008) Cleveland Orchestra Encompasses Classicism Modernist Anarchy
. Orchestra Miami Ricordi Opera Gala Elaine Rinaldi Indra Thomas/Eduardo Villa/Mark Rucker/ Eglise Gutierrez/Gregory Schmidt (1/19/2008) Singing Shines in Italian Opera Tribute
. Chameleon Series Iris Van Eck/Kemal Gekic Handel/Beethoven/Debussy/Janacek/Brahms (1/13/2008)
Review Archives 2007/ 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002
. Lawrence's Listening - November 2007 Classical Corner Bernard Haitink/Iris Van Eck/ ArielleVernede/Jacques Loussier
. Lawrence's Listening - October 2007 Classical Corner Franz Welser-Most/Evgeny Kissin/ Sir Colin Davis/Kurt Masur
. Lawrence's Listening - September 2007 Classical Corner Paavo Jarvi/Yo-Yo Ma/ Silk Road Ensemble/Simone Dinnerstein/ John O'Conor/Andreas Delfs
. Lawrences's Listening - July 2007 Classical Corner Emanuel Ax/Evgeny Kissin/Maxim Vengerov/ Julia Fischer/Benjamin Zander
. Lawrence's Listening - June 2007 Yehuda Hanani/Walter Ponce/ Christian Tetzlaff/James Ehnes/ Denis Matsuev/Sol Gabetta
Tanglewood 2009 Boston Symphony Orchestra Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos/Leonard Slatkin/ Thomas Dausgaard Vadim Repin/Sir James Galway/ Lady Jeanne Galway/ Leif Ove Andsnes/Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra/Ryan Mcadams/ Peter Serkin/Ying String Quartet/Adam Neiman
. Tanglewood 2009 Boston Symphony Orchestra Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos/Leonard Slatkin/ Thomas Dausgaard Vadim Repin/Sir James Galway/ Lady Jeanne Galway/ Leif Ove Andsnes/Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra/Ryan Mcadams/ Peter Serkin/Ying String Quartet/Adam Neiman
. Tanglewood 2009 Boston Symphony Orchestra/James Levine/ David Robertson Tanglewood Festival Chorus/John Oliver Hei-Kyung Hong/Matthia Gorne/Thomas Hampson/Orli Shaham
. Tanglewood 2008 Boston Symphony Orchestra Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos/ Janine Jansen Saint-Saens/Berlioz (8/15/2008) Andre Previn/Jean-Yves Thibaudet Glink/Khachaturian/Prokofiev (8/16/2008) Migue Harth-Bedoya/Pinchas Zukerman Ravel/Bruch/Rimsky-Korsakov (8/17/2008) Frederica Von Stade Peter Grunberg/Mathieu Dufour (8/13/2008) Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos/Emanuel Ax Strauss/Albeniz/De Falla (8/18/2008) A Real Barn Burner
. Tanglewood 2008 Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos/ Christiane Oelze/Kristine Jepson/ Richard Croft/Hanno Muller-Brachman Beethoven: Mass in C Major and 5th Symphony (8/22/2008) Christoph Von Dohnanyi Beethoven: 2nd and 3rd Symphonies (8/23/2008) Lilli Paasikivi/Joseph Kaiser Beethoven: 9th Symphony (8/24/2008) Epic and Masterful
. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet At Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Pickett/Galili/Forsythe/Elo (8/14/2008) Passionately Breathtaking . Sarasota Music Festival 2008 Carol Wincenc/Claude Frank/ Joseph Silverstein/Susan Starr/ Clive Greensmith/John Perry/ James Buswell/Barbara Westphal (6/12, 13, 14/08) An Eclectic Mix
2007
. Tanglewood 2007 A Milestone in Dance Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 75th Anniversary Season(8/7/2007) Tanglewood Music Center (7/28/2007) Festival of Contemporary Music (7/29 & 8/1/2007) Netherlands Bach Society (7/25-26/2007) Stockbridge Summer Music Series (8/6/2007)
. Tanglewood 2007 Boston Symphony Orchestra James Levine/Kurt Masur/Ludovic Morlot/ Richard Goode/Edwin Barker/Yo-Yo Ma/ Stefan Jackiw/Joshua Bell (7-27/29, 8-3/4/5-07) An Intellectual Oasis
. Sarasota Music Festival 2007 Robert Levin/Susan Starr/Jean Schneider/ Leone Buyse/Ronald Leonard/ Franklin Cohen/James Buswell/ Desmond Hoebig/Theodore Arm/ Robert Vernon/Lawrence Hurst/ Froydis Ree Wekre/John Miller/ Nancy Ambrose King/Dante Anzolini
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