March 9 marked the third concert in a series of conductor tryouts for the post of Atlantic Classical Orchestra. This time it was the turn of Rei Hotoda, associate conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra and a woman with credentials equal to those of the two men heard and seen on the podium so far this season. She opened her program with Mozart’s Symphony No. 32 (in G, K. … [Read more...]
Tedeschi and Trucks’ Sunshine music festival set for Boca on Jan. 18
The lead vocalist in the Tedeschi Trucks Band is powerhouse namesake singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi — yet its primary mouthpiece for press interviews is the group's other namesake guitarist, her husband Derek Trucks. Both will be front-and-center when their 11-piece act headlines the third annual installment of their own creation, the Sunshine Music & Blues Festival, on Jan. … [Read more...]
Supporting characters shine brighter in PB Opera’s ‘Nabucco’
It takes a lot of big singing to fill up all the space in the static tableaux of Verdi’s Nabucco. And on Friday night at the Palm Beach Opera, most of that sonic filling was provided by two singers other than the principals: a sonorous bass as Zaccaria and a thrilling tenor as Ismaele. For its first production in 25 years of Verdi’s breakthrough 1842 Biblical drama, Palm … [Read more...]
Fresh Mendelssohn, new violinist shine at Boca Symphonia
BOCA RATON – It’s not every day that you hear a world premiere of a Mendelssohn symphony, and if that sounds like a too-eager acceptance of a publicist's line, let this also be said: It works. The first concert Sunday afternoon of the Boca Raton Symphonia’s fifth season was noteworthy for the cantata-less arrangement of Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony its conductor put … [Read more...]