By PAM HARBAUGH The big boy on the cultural block tomorrow, July 4, will be the Brevard Symphony Orchestra when it presents its annual free Fourth of July Concert. Called the “Symphony Under the Stars,” the outdoor concert begins 8 p.m. at Cocoa Riverfront Park. Under the baton of Maestro Christopher...
Deadline Approaches for Chamber Music savings
Amphion String Quartet By PAM HARBAUGH The very best cultural value in Brevard County is membership to the Melbourne Chamber Music Society. You have until June 30 to save nearly 10 percent off subscription prices. The group presents fantastic chamber music concerts throughout the season, bringing in huge names to perform...
Brevard Symphony Orchestra plans Powerhouse 2015/2016
Terrence Girard at Ludwig van Beethoven. Photo by Dana Niemeier. By PAM HARBAUGH With Beethoven and Mahler book-ending a 2015/2016 schedule, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra is well positioned to give us a powerhouse season, designed to make every concert “an event.” “If I had to choose one word to describe the…season...
Brevard Symphony Orchestra: Mixing It Up
By PAM HARBAUGH Brevard Symphony Orchestra conductor and music director Christopher Confessore always likes to mix it up. And he’s going to do just that this evening when the BSO presents the season’s final concert — one that explores how folk music can inform symphonic music. The concert begins with Johannes...
Cuarteto Casals performs tonight
By PAM HARBAUGH The Melbourne Chamber Music Society presents the acclaimed CUARTO CASALS at 7:30 p.m. tonight, March 6, 2015. Strad magazine called the Cuarteto Casals “A quartet for the new millennium…” Last August, it won the German Record Critics Prize for its recording of Joseph Haydn’s “Die sieben letzten Worte...
Soprano Samar Salamé Performs Sunday at Florida Tech
Samar Salamé. Photo courtesy of Samar Salamé. By PAM HARBAUGH While opera is the usual metier for Samar Salamé, the internationally acclaimed soprano will perform a wide range of music at her concert 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18. Not only will there be the typical repertoire of Handel, Mozart, Puccini, Bizet...
Prima Trio performs Tuesday for Melbourne Chamber Music Society
By PAM HARBAUGH Impress your beloved, one-up your neighbors or surprise your own family by heading to the one-night only performance of the award winning and youthfully vigorous Prima Trio when it performs Tuesday in Indialantic. The piano trio comes to the area courtesy of the Melbourne Chamber Music Society, one...
Brevard Community Chorus annual Holiday Concert
Violist John Harbaugh rehearses for Saturday’s Holiday Concert with the Brevard Community Chorus. Photo by Pam Harbaugh. By PAM HARBAUGH Put this right up on your to-do list for Saturday. It’s the eagerly anticipated Holiday Concert performed by the venerable Brevard Community Chorus, members of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra and celebrated...
Escher String Quartet & Guitarist Jason Vieaux
Escher String Quartet, Photo by Laura Rose UPDATE: Friday’s concert thrilled. Such an unusual concert, from romantic Schubert to Kernis’ mind-blowing “100 Greatest Dance Hits.” I wanted to stand after the Boccherini Fandango Quintet to show “Ole!” Mr. Vieaux announced before the concert that he just learned of his 2015 Grammy...
Brevard Symphony Orchestra Performs Tonight with Violinist Daniel Szasz
Brevard Symphony Orchestra conductor and music director, Maestro Christopher Confessore. Photo by Arik Sokol. By PAM HARBAUGH Tonight’s concert by the Brevard Symphony Orchestra promises to be sensational. It has to be. Just look at what music director and conductor Maestro Christopher Confessore chose for the program: Excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan...