Pianist Adam Neiman returns to St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts for a recital today. Neiman, California-born and Juilliard-trained, first played at the museum five years ago.
Since then the 25-year-old has made an important debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, been featured in a documentary called Playing for Real, joined the roster of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II and gotten married, having just returned from his honeymoon. VAI Records is due to release a double CD of Neiman's performance at the Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery.
He plays Schubert, Bartok and Chopin at 2 p.m. today in the museum's Marly Room. $7, $15. (727) 896-2667.
Moscow Jewish Choir to perform
The Moscow Jewish Choir, a 14-man chorus led by Michael Touretsky, performs everything from liturgical songs to Hava Nagila, Broadway standards to ABBA's Money. "We have expanded our Jewish choir repertoire to include a panorama of selections from Jewish classics, liturgical music, Russian songs, famous American Broadway hits, French chanson, to create an inspiring blending of the traditional with the modern," Touretsky said in an interview on the group's Web site (www.moscowjewishchoir.com) "Traditional cantorial music for me is the foundation of the kind of music I want to bring to today's audiences. In Russia, the mainstream audiences find traditional liturgical cantorial music "old-fashioned.' Our goal in making this music relevant in today's world is to sprinkle it with contemporary stylistic themes and rhythms."
The choir, presented by Hadassah's Yachad group of Clearwater, performs at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Palladium Theater. $36. (727) 822-3590.
