Moran Katz. CORAL GABLES —The Carnegie Hall chamber music collective known as Decoda has developed a continuing relationship with the Mainly Mozart Festival, and on Sunday, two of the group’s members joined festival director Marina Radiushina for a strong program of works featuring the clarinet and cello. On hand for the last concert before the festival’s finale Friday night … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 30-Feb. 1
Theater: The musicals of Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel) are usually over the top with bombast and power anthems, but with Bonnie & Clyde, he seems to have learned how to tailor his music to fit the situation and characters. Of course, the story revolves around a pair of lovestruck petty bank robbers who become folk heroes during the Depression, played … [Read more...]
Powerful Brahms, Kodaly for ACO’s opener
Celebrating 25 years of music-making, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, a fine, chamber-sized orchestra of 41 players, came to the Eissey Campus Theatre of Palm Beach Gardens State College from its Fort Pierce headquarters Tuesday to give the first of its four concerts scheduled there. The orchestra’s stated mission is to broaden its outreach, and by using an all purpose name … [Read more...]
Fine Brahms ends chamber festival in affirmative fashion
One of the joys of the annual Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival is its array of fresh programming, bringing little-known music out of the libraries and into the harsh light of the stage, there to make its way or not, as the case may be. And this 21st season of the festival has been no exception, with rarely heard works dominant, and the familiar making itself known only very … [Read more...]
Passionate Brahms performances marred by piano tuning
Anyone who’s been to an arts camp or summer festival has heard that sound before – enthusiastic, friendly voices loudly acclaiming a performance by members of the team. Tuesday night at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s Persson Hall, the applause from a home-court crowd was heard for two aggressive performances by faculty members at the summer Stringendo School for Strings, who … [Read more...]
Shevchenko’s survey of Brahms, Chopin deeply satisfying
Margarita Shevchenko’s program at the Steinway Gallery on Saturday night was as core-Romantic as it could get, with much-loved music by Brahms and Chopin making up the bill of fare. But while these works were twice- and thrice-familiar, the Russian-born resident of North Miami Beach brought a deep, mature vision to the music that enhanced and restored its classic status. By … [Read more...]