By Márcio Bezerra The revered Chicago Symphony Orchestra returned to a packed Kravis Center for the Performing Arts for an enlightening Friday evening concert. The first sold-out classical performance in a long time, it featured the Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti, whose conducting was a veritable masterclass of technique and musicianship. The somewhat … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2024-25: A big classical season, with exciting guests and new visitors
As always, the classical season in South Florida is a relatively rich one, with plenty of activity in solo, chamber and orchestral music to interest a wide variety of listeners. The season is still somewhat smaller than it used to be, but there is still enough here for some strong months of concertgoing. Special events include appearances by the London Symphony, the … [Read more...]
CSO, Muti show how Beethoven should go
By Dennis D. Rooney The audience in the Kravis Center’s Dreyfoos Hall to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday night seemed the usual assortment of mostly middle-aged and older listeners. However, I do hope that some children and young people attended so that they might experience the sound of a major orchestra under an eminent conductor in music of Ludwig van … [Read more...]
Chicago Symphony, soloists give master class in elegance
You might not have realized it with the modest size of the Kravis Center audience Thursday afternoon, but a major American symphonic ensemble was there in West Palm Beach, making beautiful and fascinating music for an appreciative house. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which hasn’t toured her for more than a decade, offered two very different programs in its stay, on … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in classical music
It’s always a source of wonder to look over the classical season each year. Few other parts of the country have such an abundant menu of stellar performers, risk-taking groups and leading international orchestras, all of them stuffed into a relatively short season. And if you don’t have three or four options you’re trying to choose from every weekend in January, February and … [Read more...]