Schwarz, Frost Symphony open season with American rarities past and present

By Lawrence Budmen

Gerard Schwarz conducted the Frost Symphony Orchestra in music of John Corigliano, Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Brahms Saturday night at Gusman Concert Hall.

American music of the past and present took center stage at the opening concert of the centennial season of the Frost Symphony Orchestra under Gerard Schwarz on Saturday night at the University of Miami’s Gusman Concert Hall. The program also featured a tribute to a recently deceased, beloved Frost School of Music faculty member and an exciting traversal of a pillar of the Central European symphonic repertoire.

The composition of classical scores in America did not begin with Copland and Gershwin. In the late nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth century, a budding group of composers, many trained in Europe and based in Boston and New York, attempted to emulate the artistic currents swirling around the continent across the ocean while striving to find a distinctive American voice. 

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