Jewish Music Annual Festival Bigger And Better At Bayfront CHARLES MICHAEL CARROLL. Independent Music Reviewer. Four years ngo. Temple IVrmi Israel produced a Jewish Music Festival under the chairmanship of Dorothy Cohen, and featuring ...

Conductor Makes Music Communicate. FREDERICK S. ALLEN Independent Music Reviewer Florida Gulf Coast Symphony's Music Director Irwin Hoffman proved to us on Saturday evening that one can never call Richard Strauss' music "program music ...

... Independent Music Reviewer In the fifth of the series of programs presented by the St. Petersburg Concert Series, Prof. Hilton Jones assisted by Stephen Jay, gave what could scarcely be called a concert. The evening's offering is ...

A Symphonic Bag Of M-And-M's. CHARLES MICHAEL CARROLL Independent Music Reviewer. The community's Christmaspresent from the Florida Gulf Coast Symphony (FGCS) this year consists of two concerts on consecutive weekends. For St. Petersburg ...

Kinks Keep Everything Smooooooth. PHIL ROGERS Independent Music Reviewer There is indeed a difference between a mountain and a mole hill. Also a river and a creek, up and down, left and right and music and noise. Noise is Bob Seeger ...

Hoffman Quartet 'Finds9 Audience. FREDERICK S. ALLEN Independent Music Reviewer. If the Hoffman String Quartet's music was visual rather than auditory, it would have looked like a Fragonard painting. It was warm, precise without being ...

Symphony Communicates With Concert Listeners CHARLES MICHAEL CARROLL. Independent Music Reviewer. More than 150 years after his death, Beethoven still leads the symphonic hit parade. Considering how rapidly styles change in the arts ...

Rock With Boston. CHARLES MICHAEL CARROLL Independent Music Reviewer. The rock group called Boston ought to think about changing its name — maybe to something like Delaware & Lackawanna. That comes to mind because their music has all the ...

Wright Plays Gershwin With Panache CHARLES MICHAEL CARROLL. Independent Music Reviewer. If George Gershwin were alive today he would be 82 years old, the grand-daddy of American popular music composers, perhaps a kind of father figure for ...

Underscoring the masters. CHARLES MICHAEL CARROLL Independent Music Reviewer. The year 1685 was for music what the wh>> growers call une bonne vendange — a good vi • tage year. Within a span of eight months that year, three men were born ...