Arts/Entertainment - Florida Newsmakers of the Year
• NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Miami Beach
The centerpiece is a 757-seat hall featuring large, sail-like acoustical surfaces and flexible seating and staging to accommodate a range of activities. [Photo: Rui Dias-Adios] |
2010 saw the completion of the $154-million Miami Beach home for "America's Orchestral Academy," the New World Symphony. Designed to meet the needs of the grad student performers and experimental new ideas in melding classical music, technology — there's a 7,000-sq.-ft. exterior projection wall — and education, the facility officially opens this month adjacent to a newly designed, $13-million park. Credit the New World's founder and artistic light, Michael Tilson Thomas, who brought in famed architect Frank Gehry, and also credit Howard Herring, New World president and CEO, who built the staff, raised the money and turned Tilson Thomas' vision into reality. "The move to our new home marks a new era: A new way of relating to our audiences, a new way of learning and a new way of thinking about classical music in the 21st century," says Tilson Thomas.
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• PITBULL
Singer/Entertainer, Miami
Cuban-American rapper Armando Christian Pérez, 30, known professionally as Pitbull and Mr. 305 (as in Miami's area code), had the breakout year he's longed for with chart hits from Russia to Canada. The year began with "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)," "Krazy" and "Hotel Room Service" and ended with the album "Armando" at No. 22, as of December, on Amazon's Latin Music best sellers list. And Calle Ocho did, indeed, want him. He was named the "king" of Miami's annual street festival in 2010.
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• PAMELA TUSCANY
Vice President / General Manager
Universal Studios' Florida production group in Orlando
Pamela Tuscany's 2010 credits include 165 episodes of "Family Feud" airing nationally, a week's taping of "Ellen," the in-house production management for the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, commercials, the Powerball broadcast and sundry other productions at the eight soundstages she oversees. She's brought in a raft of job-creating future TV and film projects. Meanwhile, as a board member of the state Office of Film and Entertainment Advisory Council, she helped persuade the Legislature to pass an entertainment incentives bill.
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