CELEBRATE THE HISTORY OF MIAMI & THE WOMEN WHO MADE IT A GREAT CITY!
The City of MIAMI IS THE ONLY MAJOR US CITY WHICH WAS FOUNDED BY A
WOMAN- Julia Tuttle. Orchestra MIAMI CELEBRATES THIS UNIQUE HISTORY
AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF IS WOMEN WITH A CONCERT OF MUSIC COMPOSED BY
WOMEN, in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th
Amendment giving WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 2020,
8:00 PM at the historic First Miami Presbyterian Church, located at
609 Brickell Avenue. The concert features compositions by four
note-worthy women composers- Tania León, Amy Beach, Florence Price &
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The concert will be led by Orchestra Miami’s
Founder & Artistic Director Elaine Rinaldi & features Asiya Korepanova
as the soloist on Amy Beach’s piano concerto.
In tribute to each of the composers on the concert, Orchestra Miami
will honor four women who have greatly contributed to Miami’s
heritage: Chairperson of U.S. Century Bank Aida Levitan, historian,
author and preservationist Arva Moore Parks McCabe, Miami historian
and first African-American President of the Dade Heritage Trust Enid
Curtis Pinckney and former Miami-Dade County Commissioner and former
President & CEO of the Miami Foundation, Ruth Shack.
The concert begins with Ácana by Afro-Cuban composer Tania León,
followed by the lushly romantic Concerto for Piano in C # Minor by Amy
Marcy Beach. Following intermission, the orchestra performs the
Concert Overture N. 2 by Florence Price. the first black woman
composer to have a symphony performed by a major US orchestra. The
final piece is the Symphony N. 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra) by
Miami native Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
VIP tickets, which include a post-concert reception and reserved seat,
are $60 per person. General admission tickets are $20 to $40; students
$5. Limited free parking is available at the church parking lot.
Tickets and info at www.OrchestraMiami.org or (305) 274-2103.
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