There isn’t much precedent, except maybe on a college seminar evening somewhere, for the kind of program the Filipina pianist Cecile Licad is playing Sunday afternoon at Festival Miami. Here’s the lineup: Pieces by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edward MacDowell, William Mason, Leo Ornstein, Ferruccio Busoni and Cecile Chaminade. No Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms or Chopin in sight. … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2013
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 19-20
Art: This weekend, the Wimberley Library at Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus welcomes Alaskan artist and bookbinder Susan Share for the opening of an exhibit featuring her work that will be on view until Jan. 19. Last night, Share gave a performance featuring her art, which incorporates movement, costumes and experimental books, all of it as a way of invigorating … [Read more...]
Community theater: Lake Worth Playhouse does fine by Elvis jukebox musical
By Dale King Lake Worth Playhouse has opened its season with All Shook Up, an energetic musical featuring Elvis Presley’s greatest hits, tucked very neatly into a dramatic frame based on William Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night. It rolls out so smoothly, you’d think the songs were written specifically for this show. Before long, nearly every cast member is sporting blue … [Read more...]
‘Fifth Estate’ chooses cliché over the big story
For moviegoers who are unaware of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and the media sea change of the new millennium — which, sadly, is probably the majority — The Fifth Estate may serve 0as a functional overview of the website, its complicated founder and its vast implications. For the rest of us — the blog-surfing, Times-reading, cable news-viewing, NPR-cranking, book fair-visiting, … [Read more...]
News briefs: A painted-piano gala; Muse candidates sought
The inaugural "Keys to the Cities" kickoff party will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Lake Pavilion in West Palm Beach. During the event, the Kretzer Piano Music Foundation will unveil 18 distinct baby grand and upright pianos, all of which have been whimsically designed – each with its own theme – by local artists. A piano owned by late baseball Hall-of-Famer Gary … [Read more...]
Contemporary American works add much interest to PBCMF’s second fall concert
By Donald Waxman The planets must have been in alignment last Thursday evening when the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival players, with their accustomed professionalism and virtuosity, presented an uncommonly interesting program at Lynn University’s Wold Center for the Performing Arts auditorium, arguably one of South Florida’s most beautiful and comfortable new performing … [Read more...]
A powerful ‘Of Mice and Men’ at Dramaworks
John Steinbeck, chronicler of the Depression-era common man, has created many indelible characters, but few resonate with us with the impact of those odd couple drifters, George Milton and Lennie Small, in Of Mice and Men. A symbiotic team where most migrant workers are loners, scrappy, parental George is unusually protective of hulking, slow-witted Lennie. For quite … [Read more...]
Sundays: The call of the wrecking ball
By Myles Ludwig Scoff as you may, but I’ve been musing on the meaning of Miley. I‘ve come to think the emergence of this self-described “bad bitch that I am” from the animatronic cocoon of Disneyworld, sanctified by SNL and Fallon, sanitized by Ellen, glorified by Rolling Stone and celebrated with a way-pre-tour promo video on MTV, this tall, pig-tailed, lizard-tongued … [Read more...]
For grieving daughter, modern medicine was the villain
Eleven years ago, doctors told retired Wesleyan University professor Jeffrey Butler that he needed a pacemaker to ensure that his heart did not stop during hernia surgery. So he was outfitted with the device, which kept his heart going, “while doing nothing to prevent his slide into dementia, incontinence, near-muteness, misery and helplessness.” A year earlier, Butler had … [Read more...]
‘AGT’ standouts take acts to Kravis stage
By Dale King Like a blast from television’s variety show heyday, America’s Got Talent Live, the post-season, cross-country tour of finalists and favorites from the popular summer TV show, took the stage at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach last Saturday for a single-night performance. Lacking only the likes of Ed Sullivan and Topo Gigio, the show that is now on a westward … [Read more...]