By Tom Tracy If you were to stroll past Talia Cervetti’s studio on Lucerne Avenue in artsy downtown Lake Worth earlier this year, you might have found her seated low to the floor, listening to an old Sade CD while stitching a design into one of her acrylic paintings. Or she might have been drawing one of her abstract figurative series in black-and-white using pencil, graphite … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2012
Will the iPad mean the end of the page turner?
Of all the jobs that computer-related technology has caused to disappear, one other may soon need to be added to the list: Page turner. Concertgoers are used to seeing a turner come on stage, trailing the pianist, then sit unobtrusively to his or her left, and rise to turn the pages of the music when the time comes. It’s a job that is small but vital for musical continuity, … [Read more...]
Lisitsa, Lynn Philharmonia stand out at Boca fest
Last week, the Boca Raton Symphonia gave a respectable performance at the Festival of the Arts Boca 2012 of the soundtrack for Casablanca as it accompanied a well-attended screening of the movie. But the Lynn Philharmonia, which appeared Wednesday with the Ukrainian-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa, is a much larger orchestra, and has this year performed the First Symphony of … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 17-18
Film: One of France’s greatest exports is surely actress Audrey Tautou, the winsome creature of Amelie and The Da Vinci Code. She current stars in a sweet little film called Delicacy, playing a recent widow having difficulty starting over after her husband’s sudden death. The last thing she wants is the attentions of an awkward geek at work who declares his love for her. Before … [Read more...]
Veteran stars take roles in Maltz’s ‘Hello, Dolly!’ reworking
Sure, Hello, Dolly! is one of the landmark musicals of the so-called Golden Age of the 1960s, racking up a then-record high 2,844 performances on Broadway. But ever since, the Jerry Herman show has been under the hammerlock of its originating star, Carol Channing, who has clung steadfastly to Gower Champion’s Tony Award-winning staging and choreography. When Maltz Jupiter … [Read more...]
Sentiment turns ‘Jeff’ into something precious, not sharp
Jason Segel has a face for radio. He possesses the kind of pocky countenance that, were he around in the ’40s, would have landed him roles as a bruising heavy in the film noir canon, and not much else. These days, he gets to make out with Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher, which doesn’t suggest that we’ve become less image-conscious in our society (ha!). Instead, his ascent to … [Read more...]
Now in 21st year, Broward Center targets educational efforts
A performance calendar, online ticketing and membership options are musts on the website of any performing art center, but not all have a tab marked “Education.” And of those, few play the educator role as aggressively as the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. A student discussing Charles Dickens in class will go on to watch A Christmas Carol live on stage and return to … [Read more...]
MCB’s ‘Giselle’ ecstatic, classic
The Miami City Ballet’s performance of Giselle Sunday afternoon at the Kravis Center proved to be an ecstatic rendering of Adolphe Adam’s classic Romantic ballet. Tricia Albertson gave a lovely nuanced and technically sound performance as the young peasant girl betrayed by Albrecht, a cad of an aristo, danced by Renan Cerdeiro, just prior to his marriage to a noblewoman. … [Read more...]
The View From Home 36: New releases and notable screenings, March 6-31
There may be no better way to tee off an evangelical conservative than to emblazon the bumper of your Prius with one of those “Jesus was a liberal” stickers. The politicization of the Son of God is a perennially popular topic, with both sides picking and choosing to support their theses. But in Martin Scorsese’s still-controversial The Last Temptation of Christ (Blu-ray, … [Read more...]
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra shows why jazz matters
When you think about it, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is essentially the only ensemble in the entire country quite like it, a group whose purpose is to keep a flame for the benefit of the American people and occasionally stoke it with fresh wood. There are many hundreds of university-based jazz bands, and most of the major symphonic orchestras do plenty of outreach at … [Read more...]