For the Romantics, the medieval Italian writer Dante Alighieri loomed large, nowhere more so than in his Divine Comedy. Manuscript copies of the first part of this vast three-part poem, Inferno, became available in 1314, or just over 700 years ago, and quickly attracted commentary and interest. By the time Franz Liszt began working on a symphonic interpretation of the poem in … [Read more...]
Astanova, Ling lead Palm Beach Symphony to sparkling season finale
It was hard, seeing all those instrumentalists downstage on a closed-in pit at the Kravis Center, not to think of the long-gone Florida Philharmonic. And perhaps that ultimately was the point of the Palm Beach Symphony’s benefit concert Tuesday night at the Kravis Center, which featured a terrific reading of the Dvorak Eighth Symphony as conducted by a major international … [Read more...]