Chamber Music
Summer Chamber Music Series
The Punta Gorda Symphony celebrates the summer months with the Summer Chamber Music Series that begin with a String Quartet.
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
The Punta Gorda Symphony celebrates the summer months with the Summer Chamber Music Series that begin with a String Quartet.
From her signature red lipstick to costumes, Ellison was dazzling, treating her adoring audience with an encore Chicago That Toddling Town.
The Punta Gorda Symphony led by Maestro Raffaele Livio Ponti enthralled a packed house at the Charlotte Performing Arts Center. Guest soloist, award-winning, renowned, and gifted violinist Sirena Huang delivered a marvelous performance.
Rating 4.6/5 Beginning this installment of Behind the Notes with Maestro Raffaele Livio Ponti, Maestro Ponti welcomed everyone, and before getting to the music set for March 6, described
It was a delight to attend this event. The renowned Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute program was founded in 2003 and has since, through the arts, touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world.
Today the audience was treated to a series of works spanning from the Renaissance to modern musical theater. An affable Ming Gao eloquently introduced each piece, describing its characteristics, features, and biographical context. He also drew amusing attention to things like the foot-long clothespins used to keep music safely on music stands, a necessary prop for breezy outdoor venues.
Ponti raised his baton, and the concert began with Rossini’s Overture to his comic opera L’ltaliana in Algeri (1813), a welcome melodramatic departure to the years of austere opera serie by other composers.
