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Tchaikovsky, Handel, and Elgar’s timeless masterpieces presented by
New World School of the Arts’ Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir,
under the direction of Alfred Gershfeld and Dr. Albert Clark
MIAMI--- Three monumental masterpieces will be presented by the New World School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by the NWSA Concert, as over one .jpg) hundred NWSA high school and college music students join their musical force, conducted by Alfred Gershfeld and Dr. Albert Clark. To coincide with the birthday of German composer George Frideric Handel, born on February 23, 1685, the concert will take at the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, February 23, at 7:30 PM. 1300 Biscayne Blvd, downtown Miami. Assigned seating is $20 / $10.
“I’m thrilled about the collaboration of our orchestra and choir; this sort of collaboration is a rare treat in our day – at one of the world’s premiere performance venues!” commented Jim Gasior, Dean of Music at NWSA.
The nationally acclaimed NWSA music division students will interpret Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Elgar’s Enigmas Variations, and a stunning performance of Handel’s oratorio, Judas Maccabeus featuring the collaboration of the choir and the symphony orchestra.
Romeo and Juliet subtitled Overture-Fantasy, is a symphonic poem by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on the Shakespeare play by the same name. The work was inspired by Balakirev, a Russian pianist, composer, and a contemporary of Tchaikovsky. The work is a masterpiece of rich romantic melodies and orchestration with tremendous unity.
Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, Op. 36, famously known as The Enigma Variations, is one of the Elgar’s most ambitious works. Each “enigmatic” variation pictures a particularity of one of the composer’s friend, with the exception of the last variation – a self portrait. It is a work that depicts life through such intense and opposite feelings as loneliness, despair, and passion unified by a conceptual theme that could be translated as friendship or love.
Handel’s oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, was written between 9 July and 11 August of 1745, celebrating England’s defeat of Scotland, was premiered on 1 April 1747. It was a huge success and was performed four more times that season, was revived in 1748 and performed in each of the seasons from 1750-59—a sure sign of its success. It is one of the few Handel oratorios to remain in the repertory up to the present day.
At New World School of the Arts, Miami’s premiere eight-year arts conservatory, music students receive one-on-one instruction from accomplished musicians and grow through disciplined guidance and training as they develop their personal style and repertoire. Through its educational partnerships, NWSA’s audition-based programs, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art, Dance, Music and Theater, offer the high school diploma as well as the BFA and BM college degrees. Areas of concentration in Music include: composition, performance, instrumental, piano, strings and voice.
New World School of the Arts was created by the Florida Legislature as a center of excellence in the performing and visual arts, is an educational partnership of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami Dade College and the University of Florida.
For tickets and information, visit www.mdc.edu/nwsa, or contact the Music Hotline at 305-237-7855.
Photo caption:
NWSA Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Alfred Gershfeld.
Photographer: Juan E. Cabrera
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