As intriguing as the upcoming Seraphic Fire concerts with the Firebird Chamber Orchestra are likely to be, there’s still something so purely beautiful about unaccompanied Renaissance polyphony that the listener feels he is in the presence of a rare and endangered animal, one content to be radiant, beautiful and unexampled. The Miami chamber choir opened its 12th season last … [Read more...]
Sundays: Living the illustrated life
By Myles Ludwig Amid gods and grotesque wonders I meandered in an alternate universe. The atmosphere vibrated like a plucked string on a cosmic harp playing the music of the spheres. Creatures escaped from a child’s nightmare — lurid monsters with no discernible reference, deformed horrors, superbeings with powers defying rational explanation — surrounded me. Weird tales … [Read more...]