The days when your basic high-end party for the swells featured fresh music by a talented local composer are long gone, but the music itself lives, and in a good performance, can go some way toward reviving a lost era of graceful living. The Firebird Chamber Orchestra’s current program of serenades does just that, with refreshingly buoyant and engaging performances of early … [Read more...]
Zukerman’s Haydn shines at Israel Phil, but Tchaikovsky stumbles
Two sides of the art of Pinchas Zukerman were on view Thursday night at the Kravis Center, and it was the Classical side that came out better than the Romantic, even though most of the time he was leading a big orchestra capable of all the emotive bells and whistles. Zukerman, joined by his wife, the Canadian cellist Amanda Forsyth, is currently on tour with the Israel … [Read more...]