New World Center on Nov 8: Sean Lee Plays Debussy on a Sunday Afternoon
Sean Lee and New World Symphony Fellows trace Debussy's color through five chamber works in Frank Gehry's Miami Beach hall.
🎼 Five Works, One Afternoon
🎨 Where the Color Travels
Debussy never completed the six sonatas he planned in his last years, and the composers who followed kept reaching for the color he found in small ensembles. Takemitsu's Rain Spell, from 1982, lines up flute, clarinet, harp, piano and vibraphone in shifting panels, water heard as shimmer rather than tune. Sean Lee's violin carries Debussy's own Sonata, Mumford's through a stillness brightening picks up the thread after the interval, and Françaix closes with flute, strings and harp.
🏛️ Inside the Gehry Hall
The concert takes over the Michael Tilson Thomas Performance Hall inside Frank Gehry's New World Center. Building doors open at 1 PM and the hall at 1:30 PM, and there is no dress code. Phones and cameras are fine in the lobby and at intermission, then the room asks for quiet and dimmed screens once the music starts. Only bottled water goes into the hall at most concerts, and the atrium bar serves drinks and snacks before the show and between halves.
🎫 Tickets and Timing
Single seats start at $15, sold at nws.edu, by phone at 305.673.3330, or at the box office window, open noon until intermission on Sunday concert days. The five works run about 64 minutes of music, and a 20-minute intermission splits the afternoon. Budget about an hour and a half, intermission included, from downbeat to last bow. The Pennsylvania Avenue Garage charges $15 flat on event days and links to the hall by footbridge.
