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MMT at the New World Centre. Photo: Alex Markow

New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas – Mahler 5; Gil Shaham plays Boulogne

The first part of this concert saw Gil Shaham in a Concerto by Le Chevalier Saint-Georges. Born Joseph Boulogne to a French planter and his enslaved mistress of African descent in Guadeloupe, Boulogne was educated in France, where he became a champion fencer and military leader, as well as a virtuoso violinist, with connections to …

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Aaron Diehl - photo - Maria Jarzyna

New World Symphony/Marin Alsop and Chad Goodman – Anna Clyne’s Masquerade & Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade – Aaron Diehl plays Gershwin’s Concerto in F

Many of the post-conservatory fellows of the New World Symphony, after three years of working with eminent visiting musicians, go on to become members in orchestras around the United States and abroad. Co-founded thirty-four years ago by Michael Tilson Thomas, NWS is based in the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in Miami Beach, but also performs in other venues — on this occasion under the tutelage of …

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