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Celebrating a survival that goes beyond metaphor and poetry, the Miami Symphony Orchestra (MISO) returns stronger than ever with an emotional and human repertoire that seeks to impact the soul and spirit as only the maestro, Eduardo Marturet, knows how to do it.
Latin genres, jazz, pop and rock will be present through a fusion that represents Miami and its cultural mix, which undoubtedly consecrates MISO as a reflection of the community.
“This is an opportunity that life gives us again, that is why we all return stronger than ever and grateful to be able to move on and live,” Marturet said about the start of this new season that starts on Nov. 7 with the play of Jake the Philharmonic Dog, a world premiere by New York composer and author Karen LeFrak.
The concert is from 6 to 8 p.m in the Knight Concert Hall of the Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd.
“For the whole family it is a piece that we are enjoying a lot because we love dogs. In fact, we have two chihuahuas with Eduardo. It is a wonderful story in which we can understand the sounds and instruments from the experience of a canine who will also be with us on stage,” said Athina Klioumi, actress and wife of the maestro, who in addition to being a member of the Advisory Board of MISO, will be the narrator of this story that will delight the whole family.
A fabulous, heartfelt and human experience is what the Miami Symphony Orchestra at the hand of its director invites us to live in this new season that is coming to us to share through music what we learned from the pandemic. The repertoire also includes Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43 and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, Op. 73.
“Life can be so short, so enjoying good music, nature, and friends is essential. We are going out into the world again and we have to connect more with everything to be able to vibrate in high frequencies, and music is one of those frequencies,” Klioumi said.
Changing paradigms from Miami
The Miami Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Eduardo Marturet has managed to position an innovative, humane and different repertoire that fully reflects the South Florida community. It is a mission that has been consecrated under a paradigm shift, that is why this season the orchestra brings classical music even to the homeless of the city through unique projects.
“We cannot think of elitist works because we have to enrich the spirituality of all the public.
What happens in Miami does not happen in other cities in the world, in no other orchestra in the country,” said Marturet, a multi-award-winning Venezuelan conductor who mixes genres in a fresh and transformative way as it is not done. “We have musicians from more than 25 countries and 60 percent of them are Hispanic, and that is reflected in our repertoire. Symphony orchestras are usually like ivory towers that play what they want for them, and in Miami we think that it shouldn’t be like that.”
Recognized worldwide as one of the most innovative conductors, Maestro Marturet, who has lived in Miami for 16 years, firmly believes that if the so-called “select music” is not implemented, we will lose it. That is why he does not hesitate when conducting concerts where animals appear, and has even managed that the Miami Symphony Orchestra has 12 composers in residence, something unprecedented and that exalts the city as the epicenter of art in which more and more artists want’s to live, as is the case with the French pianist Christie Julien.
“We are honored to have her in Miami and have her great debut with us in this play. We have to learn to live and coexist in new ways, and for that, music is fundamental,” said Marturet, who has conducted and recorded with the Berliner Symphoniker; Concertegebouw Kamerorkest; European Community Chamber Orchestra; Rheinland Philharmonic Orchestra; Pfalz, the largest and main symphony orchestra of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and the RAI Symphony Orchestra, in Italy, among many others.
