Music: Here’s a good sign that summers are more active than ever in South Florida. On Saturday night, no less a musical eminence than Deborah Voigt will kick off the second annual Miami Summer Music Festival, singing with the MSMF Orchestra led by festival founder Michael Rossi at Barry University’s Shepard Broad Performing Arts Center. Voigt will sing music by Richard Strauss … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2015
‘Farewell Party’ packs melancholy punch amid the laughs
It’s not the first time I’m warning you, and it won’t be the last: Don’t believe the trailer. The latest film that deserves this precaution is the Israeli box office sensation The Farewell Party, which presents, in its truncated teaser, as a daffy retirement-home comedy with a saccharine center. While laughs do occasionally puncture the gravity of the film’s subject matter, … [Read more...]
Stravinsky hommage stands out at PBCMF’s first concert
A young American composer’s tribute to Igor Stravinsky made a remarkable impression during the opening concert last weekend of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival’s 24th summer season. San Francisco-based Stefan Cwik, not yet 30 years old, composed his Eight Miniatures for the Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition in 2010, and it was easy to hear Sunday afternoon at … [Read more...]
The View From Home 71: A French ‘Twin Peaks,’ Czech surrealism, Hitch, Ibsen, Schiller and more
Li’l Quinquin: We’re barely 10 minutes into this three-and-a-half-hour Bruno Dumont epic (Kino, $22.99 Blu-ray, $19.99 DVD), and surrealism has gripped us for the long haul: A helicopter airlifts a cow from its resting place in a seemingly inaccessible bunker, a shot as majestically strange as the Christ statue hovering over the Roman aqueduct in La Dolce Vita. Only this symbol … [Read more...]
Theatre at Arts Garage’s new boss plans move to edgier material
Get ready for some changes at the theater in Delray Beach’s Arts Garage. For starters, the storefront performance venue underneath a municipal parking garage is opening a black box second space, where two of the company’s four plays will be presented. But more importantly, there has been a changing of the guard, with Keith Garsson taking over as producing director of the … [Read more...]
Cultural Council Biennial heavy on color, nature
With all the recent dialogue challenging longstanding notions of gender, race and marriage, one would expect to find these themes daringly reflected in art. And they are — just not so much in Palm Beach County. The Cultural Council Biennial 2015, running now through Aug. 29 at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County’s Lake Worth locale, sounds promising. One finds a … [Read more...]
Singer Rexha brings ‘genre-less’ vibe to Vans Warped Tour on Fourth
By Hilary Saunders It’s hard to believe, but this summer marks the 20th anniversary of Vans Warped Tour as a cultural institution for teens across America. Founded in 1995 by Kevin Lyman of Vans in conjunction with the Creative Artists Agency, the skate shoe company has sponsored the festival since 1996. And over the past two decades, seemingly every punk/pop … [Read more...]