Conductor Stewart Robertson’s final concert with the Atlantic Classical Orchestra at the Eissey Campus Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens on Tuesday afternoon was a memorable occasion. It had a world premiere of an excellent violin concerto, two “Scottish” works to celebrate the land of his birth, and a rousing performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Robertson was presented … [Read more...]
Zwilich concerto a crowd-pleaser at SoFla Symphony
The Miami-born composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, first woman to earn a Pulitzer Prize for music and the first woman to earn a composition doctorate at Juilliard, remains busily composing in her 70s. The part-time Pompano Beach resident’s piano concerto Shadows, which premiered in 2011, had its first Florida performances this past week on the programs of the South Florida … [Read more...]
Kuerti spellbinding in concerti with NY Chamber Soloists
About 2,000 music lovers filled the Kravis Center on Tuesday to hear the refined playing of the New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra ― 16 players, all at the top of their game, coming together to make the sweetest sounds. An early Haydn symphony, No. 6 (in D, Hob. I: 6), written in 1761 when the composer was 29 and newly hired by the Esterhazys, began the program. Subtitled Le … [Read more...]