Pianist Frederic Chiu.By Greg StepanichBOCA RATON -- When an orchestra wants to introduce its audience to unfamiliar repertoire, the time-honored pattern is usually to offer only one such piece and leave the rest to the workhorses.But on Sunday afternoon at the Roberts Theater, the Boca Raton Symphonia made the case for two overlooked, rarely played works, and those arguments … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2009
Theater review: Maltz Jupiter’s ‘Barnum’ offers three rings of entertainment
Brad Oscar as the master of humbug himself in Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Barnum.By Hap ErsteinBarnum, the bouncy oom-pah band biographical musical, has been rarely revived since it first landed on Broadway in 1980, in part because of the circus skills required of its cast and the quadruple-threat abilities -- singing, dancing, acting and tightrope-walking -- needed by whoever is … [Read more...]
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Weekend Arts Picks: Jan. 8-12
Photographer Barry Seidman with threeof the photographs from his exhibit ‘Aperture Art.’RosettaStone Fine Art Gallery: Opening Thursday night is Aperture Art, an exhibit of large fine-art photographs by advertising photographer Barry Seidman. Featuring photographs of stylish cocktails and breathtaking close-ups of flowers and fruit, the images, printed as dye-transfers and on … [Read more...]
Theater review: In ‘Looped,’ Tallulah Bankhead and Valerie Harper both deserve better
Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead in Looped.By Hap ErsteinOh, what an intermission can do.After one act of Tallulah Bankhead, the off-color, inebriated comedienne, she returns after a 15-minute break and is suddenly lucid, compassionate and dramatic. In both cases she is two-dimensional, but just different dimensions in the two acts of Looped, the Valerie Harper vehicle now … [Read more...]
Music review: Poulenc Trio offers skill, variety
The Poulenc Trio: Pianist Irina Lande,oboist Vladimir Lande, and bassoonist Bryan Young.(Photo courtesy Flagler Museum)By Greg StepanichPALM BEACH -- A Baltimore-based trio showed Tuesday night why it is that the infinite variety of chamber music never will be staled, in a program of unusual works that spanned three centuries and styles from Baroque to American Eclectic.The … [Read more...]
Art review: Loving contemporary art
A-Z, The Passion of Joan, by Aida Ruilova (Photos by Katie Deits)By Katie DeitsIt's not always easy to make sense of contemporary art, even for someone like me, who's been studying it and creating it for most of her life.But the more you know about it, the more you love it. I took in a great deal of new art last month at Art Basel in Miami Beach, so much so that it was almost … [Read more...]
CD review: Delray String Quartet, works by Dvorak
By Greg StepanichFor its first commercial disc, the Delray String Quartet has turned to two of the most popular and most recorded chamber works of Antonin Dvorak -- the American String Quartet (No. 12 in F, Op. 96) and the Piano Quintet No. 2 (in A, Op. 81).Venturing into this beloved territory carries risks of unfavorable comparisons, but on the whole this is a respectable … [Read more...]
The ArtsPaper Interview: James Reston Jr. on ‘Frost/Nixon’
James Reston Jr., right, with former President Richard Nixon. The man at left is unidentified.By Hap ErsteinJames Reston Jr., a former assistant to the secretary of the interior during the Johnson Administration and a respected journalist, has written 13 books, including The Conviction of Richard Nixon, his account of the broadcast interviews between the resigned but … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Palm Beach Poetry Festival opens fifth fest this month
By Greg Stepanich DELRAY BEACH -- Four hours after the oath of office is administered to Barack Obama, a group of professional writers and everyday folks will gather around a microphone at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach to read eight-line poems inspired by the event they have just witnessed, the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States. Poems written to … [Read more...]