By Tara Mitton Catao Of all the full-length classical ballets, it is Don Quixote that continually delights audiences, and Miami City Ballet’s production was selected to be a crowd-pleaser as well as a natural fit for the largely Hispanic company. The popular ballet has all the ingredients that make it easy for audiences to enjoy. The lavish costumes and sets by Santo Loquasto, … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
Sundays: Looking for answers
By Myles Ludwig We seem to be sloshing through a media debris field. The globalization of media, the diversity of delivery platforms and their consequent overarching narratives of mystery, fear and grief involve us all within reach in news stories that seem so close, yet are so far. Those of us not directly affected by catastrophic events are nevertheless drawn into the … [Read more...]
Violinist Pine astonishes at PBAU
It’s been more than 10 years, Rachel Barton Pine said, since she’s played South Florida, the last time being in an appearance with the Florida Philharmonic. In the meantime, her hero status in her native Chicago has only grown, and in that city, she’s one of the leading lights of classical music (and thrash metal, too, but that’s another story). The full house at Palm Beach … [Read more...]
Whit Stillman: Chronicler of the urban haute bourgeoisie
There are people like you and me in Whit Stillman’s movies, but they’re outnumbered by a different class of folks: Worlds of big money and elitism and cocktails and intellectual pedantry, where terms like “titled aristocracy” drift in and out of conversations. These days, we call these people the One Percenters, and their offspring the sufferers of “affluenza;” in the ’90s, … [Read more...]
Norton’s ‘Industrial Sublime’ a poem of water, iron, stone and sky
If New Yorkers won’t come to New York, the city will come to them, in the form oil paintings, watercolors and oil pastels with impressionist, cubist and realist tones. A rich selection of works depicting the pros and cons of the booming city makes up Industrial Sublime, which opened March 20 at the Norton Museum. The gallery rooms are filled with cityscapes by famous and … [Read more...]
‘King and I’ brilliantly reimagined at Maltz
Unlike most audience members, reviewers yearn to be surprised. If civilian theatergoers take comfort in the familiar, critics crave an encounter with the unexpected, particularly in a show they have viewed countless times before. Not that director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge makes novel staging choices for the sake of being different, but nor does she settle for the … [Read more...]
Inventive, explosive Koresh Dance closes Duncan season
By Tara Mitton Catao The Duncan Theatre’s dance season came to a resounding finish with the explosive performance on Friday night of the Philadelphia-based Koresh Dance Company. Artistic director and choreographer Roni Koresh unleashed a movement vocabulary that was a fascinating flurry of endless invention. As the show unfurled, one got a tremendous sense of the artistic … [Read more...]
Anderson and Roe, dancers brilliant in Stravinsky at CMSPB
Pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Roe brought a capacity crowd of 280 to their concert in the Grand Ballroom of Mar-a-Lago on March 20. The largest audience yet for this fledgling arts organization heard expert playing and superb dancing by students from the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The pianists met at the Julliard School in New York in … [Read more...]
‘Sixth Extinction’ is an urgent, chilling warning
More than 60 million years ago a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. Four other mass extinctions in the past 450 million years destroyed countless other animal and plant species. In her profound new book, The Sixth Extinction, science writer Elizabeth Kolbert argues that Earth could be heading for another extinction that would kill off many … [Read more...]
Strong Brahms, radiant Chopin at PB Symphony
Under the 16 glittering chandeliers of Mar-a-Lago, the most tastefully decorated concert hall in America, Palm Beach Symphony played to the great, the good and the glamorous: scattered among the 600 guests were stand out beautiful young women in designer evening gowns — a coterie from Donald Trump’s Miss America pageant, perhaps? Thanking Trump for his hospitality, Symphony … [Read more...]