Charlie Cox and Kate Mara in Stone of Destiny. By Hap Erstein“Downsizing” is the operative word for this year’s local film festivals, both the Palm Beach International and the Delray Beach Fest.The countywide Palm Beach International Film Festival, now in its 14th year and in search of a new chairman to steer it, will run a mere five days -- down from its usual eight -- and … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2009
Dance review: Klein company boldly counts the ways we love
The Demetrius Klein Dance Company's Accepting Perfectexplores the frustrations and fulfillments of love. By Sharon McDanielLAKE WORTH – The Klein Dance Studio is a sure-fire source of the thoughtful, the uplifting and the new in modern dance.But it took a visit to Lake Worth last month by the likes of international choreographer Bill T. Jones and company to jog the memory of … [Read more...]
Dance review: Miami City Ballet program slow to catch fire
A scene from Miami City Ballet's Symphony in C.By Sharon McDanielFew stories on the arts can begin without a disclaimer about today’s economy. That goes for Miami City Ballet, and South Florida dance as a whole.Friday night’s season finale at the Kravis Center went forward without live orchestra accompaniment. Miami originally scheduled live music for the entire season, … [Read more...]
Music review: Sierra shows star quality with Lynn Philharmonia
Soprano Nadine Sierra. By Greg StepanichBOCA RATON -- One way to measure the still-developing art of the young soprano Nadine Sierra is this:After her climactic high B-flats at the end of Un bel di, Sierra waited out Puccini's brief postlude not as a singer waiting for the orchestra to finish or as a happy musician smiling at the audience. Instead, she was staring straight … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Sunset Cove hopes for big crowds with June rocker fest
The Sunset Cove Amphitheater west of Boca Raton.(Photo by Thom Smith)By Thom SmithIt’s one of the best-kept secrets in South Florida, but that will all change this summer as Ann Butler and Randy Carrillo crank up the volume at Palm Beach County’s newest performing arts center, Sunset Cove, an amphitheater on the edge of the Everglades in South County Regional Park.Sunset Cove … [Read more...]
Art review: Four Arts show a brilliant look at Impressionism, American-style
Washington Arch, Spring by Childe Hassam.By Jenifer A. VogtPALM BEACH – A current exhibit of American paintings at the Society of the Four Arts gives pictorial evidence of the nation’s shift from the rigidity of the Gilded Age toward the transformative upheaval of the Progressive Era, and does so brilliantly.American Impressionism: Paintings From the Phillips Collection, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 27-29
Reflection: West Palm Beach, by Elle Schorr. Art: Five local artists are offering interpretations of their environment in a show wrapping up this week at the Pine Jog Environmental Education Center, which is at 6301 Summit Blvd. in West Palm Beach.The show, called Native Offerings II, is curated by Talya Lerman and features photography by Jacek Gancarz, Elle Schorr and Lyn … [Read more...]
Music review: Goode’s Bach, Chopin recital deep, beautiful
Pianist Richard Goode. (Photo by Michael Wilson) By Greg StepanichWEST PALM BEACH -- Frederic Chopin, we are told, revered the work of J.S. Bach, and the Polish pianist's attention to the multiplicity of colors available through counterpoint gives his and his great predecessor's work the same power of enduring harmonic freshness.The work of these two composers was the sole … [Read more...]
Theater review: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, Feinstein evening shows
Michael Feinstein.By Hap ErsteinBowing to the economic realities, the Kravis Center had to scrub its planned, low-cost family film series earlier this season. But if you still had a craving for movies with a cultural spin, you could have attended Monday evening’s stroll down memory lane, a.k.a. Michael Feinstein’s Salute to the Stars of MGM and Hollywood.It featured a trio of … [Read more...]
Dance review: Trey McIntyre Group outstanding at Duncan
By Sharon McDanielLAKE WORTH -- Trey McIntyre “gets” it. Not all choreographers do.But for McIntyre, the music isn’t simply a convenient coat rack, inert and ever-available to hold whatever he drapes on it. He knows and respects the music to a startling degree, whether it’s a children’s song or classical trio, a folksy tune with guitar or elaborately orchestrated rock song.His … [Read more...]