Classical Music

The Miami Beach Classical Music Festival is presenting a series of “immersive” performances, one of which sold out last season. This year, it is utilizing a new, permanently installed projection mapping system housed in the ballroom at Temple Emanu-El, the landmark 1948 synagogue located on the intersection of 17th Street and Washington Avenue in Miami Beach.

Celebrated conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who co-founded the New World Symphony, has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. The two performances of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony he will conduct this weekend are bound to be among the most poignant in NWS's nearly 40-year history.

The Miami Beach concert hall's 2024-25 season will include music composed by two artists who perished during the Holocaust, as it marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the deadliest military conflict in history.

The Boca Raton-based orchestra's program includes a concerto by 18th Century flute virtuoso, Francois Devienne.

Baby B Strings is a quartet that performs classical and pop music in unconventional spaces. They take the Beatles to the concert hall and bring Bach to the beach. They join Sundial host Carlos Frías us for a jam session.

Stéphane Denève is the artistic director of the New World Symphony. His journey there started with hiding in the back of a chapel. He tells us his story and what we can expect from the orchestra this season.

WLRN’s Carlos Frías is joined by Portia Dunkley, who has made it her mission to spotlight Black composers and bring their music to the South Florida community. She’s the founder of the New Canon Chamber Collective ensemble and Teeny Violini, a mobile music education program for preschools and afterschool programs.

Each of The Symphonia's 'Inspired, Naturally' concerts was named for one of the four elements.

The Miami-based professional choral ensemble concludes its anniversary season with a concert that features the oldest and newest pieces in its repertoire.

The orchestra is halfway through its "Inspired, Naturally" concerts in Boca Raton.

Legendary musician Paquito D’Rivera joins WLRN's Carlos Frías on Sundial to talk about his illustrious career, his escape from Cuba and why he recently donated his archives to the University of Miami.

Maestro Gerard Schwarz joins us to talk about the music around Miami Art Week. Plus, a panel of artists discuss Miami Art Week.