In Sunday’s (9/22) Miami Herald, Mike Hammersly previews “the top classical music performances in Miami, Broward and Palm Beach this season, some of the can’t-miss performances for the upcoming classical music season in South Florida…. ‘A Spooky Symphony,’ featuring beautiful and scary music by the Greater Miami Youth Symphony and the Alhambra Orchestra…. the perfect way to get your little ones to finally put down their electronic devices and experience real live culture … New World Symphony with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, Veterans Day Concert: A WWII Journey. Truly moving performance honors veterans and the global sounds of resiliency” with music by Aaron Copland, Pavel Haas, Dmitri Shostakovich, William Grant Still, John Williams, and Richard Strauss. “Palm Beach Symphony: Maestro Gerard Schwarz leads the orchestra—featuring Leonidas Kavakos—in performing Brahms’ only violin concerto (the incredibly challenging Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77). The program also features Christopher Theofanidis’ ‘Rainbow Body’ and closes with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7…. South Florida Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks V concert features Catherine Lan … performing Prokofiev’s ‘devilishly difficult’ Piano Concerto No. 3 and a triumphant and uplifting finale, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic,’ under the direction of Sebrina María Alfonso.” The article also discusses upcoming performances by the Cleveland Orchestra, Seraphic Fire vocal ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Florida Grand Opera, and Miami International Piano Festival.