GREAT ARTISTS SERIES, INC.
MIAMI, FLORIDA

In 1967, Judy founded the Great Artists Series in Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach under the guidance of Rabbi Leon Kronish. Judy’s Great Artists Series was so immensely successful and beloved that in the 1980s and the 1990s, Judy expanded her cultural series and formed the Concert Association of Greater Miami which morphed into the Concert Association of Florida, Artistic Management Company, Inc., Orchestra of Miami, Inc., the Prestige Series, the Virtuoso Society, the Great Diva series, the Dance Alive! series and the “The World of Dance” Sunday afternoon dance series. The scope of the Legendary Impresaria’s astuteness can be gauged by the quality of the artists, musical and dance organizations that Judy has presented — Richard Tucker, Vladimir Horowitz, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Van Cliburn, Itzhak Perlman, Yefim Bronfman, Zubin Mehta, Evgeny Kissin, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, James Conlon, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Beverly Sills, Cecilia Bartoli, Yo Yo Ma, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Wynton Marsalis, Valery Gergiev, the Miami Beach New World Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Kirov Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Boston Pops, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem Company, The Joffrey Ballet Theatre, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, White Oak Dance Project and many others. Judy, we salute you for bringing light, love, music and dance into our lives for over 50 years! We are excited and honored to follow in your footsteps by continuing your legacy of featuring and presenting South Florida performances and events featuring and promoting undiscovered young talented musicians and dancers, as well as, international world-class established artists. “We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.” – Dalai Lama XIV