By Kevin Wilt Sunday afternoon, the South Florida Symphony stopped by the Carole and Barry Kaye Auditorium at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton to play a pair of symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven. This performance was third in their January tour, beginning in Key West, and ending with their debut at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. The first half of the concert … [Read more...]
Zwilich concerto a crowd-pleaser at SoFla Symphony
The Miami-born composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, first woman to earn a Pulitzer Prize for music and the first woman to earn a composition doctorate at Juilliard, remains busily composing in her 70s. The part-time Pompano Beach resident’s piano concerto Shadows, which premiered in 2011, had its first Florida performances this past week on the programs of the South Florida … [Read more...]
SoFla SO, soloist do right by Russian masters
A mostly Russian program featuring a stellar pianist and an important symphony made a strong impression on what appeared to be a growing and enthusiastic audience in Delray Beach last week for the South Florida Symphony. The Feb. 3 concert at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts’ Crest Theatre featured American pianist Christopher Taylor in the Third Piano Concerto (in C, Op. … [Read more...]