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“The thing that’s saving (the orchestra) right now is Harry Potter movie
screens. People are going to the symphony to watch a movie with live
music and are realizing the power of it,” says Smitter.

Flavin says it’s the perception that needs to change.

“I think it’s important that we break the stereotype that this is old music, this
is dead music, and it’s boring. I love these conversations because I talk a
bit about the music and the composer that wrote it but then (I talk) also
about the performers because they are the ones that make this music
come alive,” says Flavin, who adds that includes time for a question-and-
answer session at the end of his talk to further the conversation.

Flavin will host the Arsht Center’s “Classic Conversations” on Thursday,
March 21, before the performance by the Academy of St Martin in the
Fields. He says he spent time previously with the orchestra and Bell when
they came to Miami to work with his students at the Frost School of Music.
(“It is) one of the great orchestras.”

Courtesy By Benjamin Ealovega/Artburst Miami