New World Symphony 'Pay What You Wish' Concerts ​​​​​​​

Miami’s own New World Symphony returns this September with a series of pay-what-you-wish performances showcasing some of the most exciting young musicians of our time.

Be it $5 or $25, you’re invited to pay what you wish for these one-day-only performances.

KLEZMER FANTASY

Saturday, September 14, at 7:30 p.m.
New World Center

The rich tradition of Klezmer music comes alive as Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley leads and performs alongside NWS String Fellows in this special pre-season concert. Labeled Entartete (Degenerate) by the Nazis, Gideon Klein wrote his “Partita” as a Jewish prisoner 10 days before he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Though Klein lost his life, the work survived — smuggled out of the Terezín camp and hidden for half a century — now revealing the power of the human spirit and resilience of those confined.

MTT, BEETHOVEN AND BEYOND
Sunday, September 15, at 2 p.m.
New World Center

Anthony Prisk (Philadelphia Orchestra and NWS alum) returns to lead charming chamber music for winds and brass. Beethoven’s “Rondino” offers a gentle introduction by winds before Janácek’s showpiece for solely a pianist’s left hand. Written for a soldier who lost the use of his right hand during WWI, the piece was nicknamed by Janácek “Defiance.” The afternoon culminates with Michael Tilson Thomas’s jazzy “Street Song” for brass.”

BARBER AND MENDELSSOHN
Saturday, September 28 at 7:30 p.m.
New World Center

In her NWS debut, Stella Chen performs the sole violin concerto by the man behind some of the most beautiful, gut-wrenching melodies in music – Samuel Barber. Felix Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony channels his youthful tour of Italy in a series of sunny impressions, while Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Leonore Overture” captures the emotional gamut of an entire opera in less than 15 minutes. Enjoy your first look at all the 2024-25 Fellows in their debut orchestra concert of the season.