“For one of New England’s preeminent concert series, the venues are some of the great Newport mansions. Many of the concerts are already sold out, so here are a few for which tickets are still available at the time of this writing (but probably not for long). The wonderful Tony Award-winning Broadway star Laura Benanti, who can really sing (remember her hilarious impersonation of Melania Trump?), has two intimate concerts (July 9 and July 10). Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Canadian pianist Dinuk Wijeratne join A Far Cry, Boston’s conductorless string orchestra, in an imaginative evening of music by the two soloists, along with Janáček’s Idyll Suite for String Orchestra (July 12). Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and pianist Max Levinson make up a superb duo for a program ranging from Corelli and Beethoven (the great “Spring” Sonata) to Philip Glass and Morten Lauridsen (July 14). These all take place at The Breakers.”
-WBUR
