Comment on Guide to the Arts 2024: Our picks for the best classical concerts this season

As part of our Guide to the Arts, which published in PRIME Magazine on Oct. 6, entertainment writer Ben Crandell offered his Critic’s Picks for the best in pop shows coming up in South Florida. New World Symphony  Oct. 19-20, New World Center, Miami Beach. Tickets start at $110+ at NWS.edu.  Artistic director Stéphane Denève will conduct the New World Symphony in a compelling examination of human resilience in the face of brutal autocracy in a double bill of Viktor Ullmann’s opera “The Kaiser of Atlantis,” with a libretto by Peter Kien, and Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins,” a ballet chanté composed to a libretto by Bertolt Brecht.