The new Miami Performing Arts Center (anxious to sign up tenants) has signed up (read: merged) with the Concert Association of Florida. “Most obviously, the partnership strengthens the Miami Performing Arts Center’s status as the dominant cultural force in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, even before the center opens in fall of 2006. In addition to its signing of the Cleveland Orchestra as resident ensemble for 10 years, presenting Florida Grand Opera performances and bringing Drucker’s events under its authority make the Miami Performing Arts Center the most powerful presenter of classical music in the region.”