The Trey McIntyre Project in Ma Maison.By Tara Mitton CataoThe Trey McIntyre Project reinvented itself Friday night with an evening of fabulous dancing to the music of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Roy Orbison.What made the high-speed and energetic dancing in Friday’s performance at the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth so engaging is something subtle and quiet. … [Read more...]
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Trey McIntyre show spectacular at Duncan
The Trey McIntyre Project reinvented itself Friday night with an evening of fabulous dancing to the music of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Roy Orbison. What made the high-speed and energetic dancing in Friday’s performance at the Duncan Theatre in Lake Worth so engaging is something subtle and quiet. Perhaps it’s all captured in the word “project”: This company does not … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: FAU concert, exhibit spotlight Russian music publisher’s legacy
The front page of the score for Rimsky-Korsakov’sopera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, as published by V. Bessel & Co.BOCA RATON -- The Bessel publishing house, founded in St. Petersburg in 1869, grew from a music shop into a concern that was at the center of Russian musical life, printing works by the nation’s leading composers from Tchaikovsky to … [Read more...]
FAU concert, exhibit spotlight Russian music publisher’s legacy
BOCA RATON -- The Bessel publishing house, founded in St. Petersburg in 1869, grew from a music shop into a concern that was at the center of Russian musical life, printing works by the nation’s leading composers from Tchaikovsky to the members of the “mighty handful.” Many of the first-edition scores published by Bessel can be seen in the Richard Beattie Davis Collection at … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 18-20
Daniela Mack. (Photo by Dario Acosta) Music: The music of Spain has long been a favorite of the conductor Philippe Entremont, and for this weekend’s concert by the Boca Symphonia, he’s commissioned new arrangements of familiar and not-so-familiar masterworks from the land of Cervantes. The Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack is the guest soloist for Manuel … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 18-20
Music: The music of Spain has long been a favorite of the conductor Philippe Entremont, and for this weekend’s concert by the Boca Symphonia, he’s commissioned new arrangements of familiar and not-so-familiar masterworks from the land of Cervantes. The Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack is the guest soloist for Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo on a program that also … [Read more...]
Film review: Too late, ‘Unknown’ leaves thriller re-treads in search for meaning
Liam Neeson and January Jones in Unknown.By John ThomasonAs far as studio actioners go, Unknown has its share of well-crafted set-pieces and steely suspense, but well-versed viewers of modern thrillers won’t help but feel an almost immediate sense of déjà vu.The most obvious reference point is Taken, whose star, Liam Neeson, Unknown shares, and whose color … [Read more...]
Too late, ‘Unknown’ leaves thriller re-treads in search of meaning
As far as studio actioners go, Unknown has its share of well-crafted set-pieces and steely suspense, but well-versed viewers of modern thrillers won’t help but feel an almost immediate sense of déjà vu. The most obvious reference point is Taken, whose star, Liam Neeson, Unknown shares, and whose color palette of dark blues and antiseptic off-whites are mimicked here by … [Read more...]
Art review: God of ‘Cassadaga’ is in photographer’s details
Spiritual Piano (2008), by Christiaan Lopez-Miro.By Emma TrellesThe interstate is really the one road that leads to Cassadaga, I-4 to be exact, and it takes travelers from both the east and west coasts of central Florida to this small hamlet of spiritualists, mediums, psychics, and healers.Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this … [Read more...]
God of ‘Cassadaga’ is in the photographer’s details
The interstate is really the one road that leads to Cassadaga, I-4 to be exact, and it takes travelers from both the east and west coasts of central Florida to this small hamlet of spiritualists, mediums, psychics, and healers. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this 116-year-old Volusia County community draws both believers and naysayers, those seeking … [Read more...]