On January 30, 2015, Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony premiere the third installment in Gordon’s “city symphonies” for Miami, Florida, after Gotham (New York City) and Dystopia (Los Angeles).

Working in collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison, Gordon creates music with his own reflections for each city. Miami is special for Gordon — it is his hometown.

When a Critic Hosts the Premiere
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Zachary Woolfe
February 14, 2020

“Please silence your cellphones.”

There are few phrases I hear more often in my life as a music critic. But it was strange — like a child playing dress-up — to speak the sentence myself, and in the incongruous setting of my own living room on a rainy evening earlier this week…