Miami’s New World Symphony is a training orchestra that thinks different. “New World places great emphasis on being different, as it performs some of the most edgy repertoire in music. This season, New World will be performing works by John Cage, Steve Reich and Luciano Berio – in a preview of New World’s scheduled performance in Rome – and Sibelius’ Fifth, works typically never even penciled into a regional orchestra’s schedule. ‘We have never been in competition with anyone for audiences because we do very few programs. We’re not scared of putting on an evening where we only have 300 people there if the repertoire is as extreme as it sometimes can be.”