Alexander Platt conducts violinist Vadim Gluzmanand the Boca Symphonia in theTchaikovsky Violin Concerto in December 2008.(Photo courtesy Boca Symphonia)The Boca Raton Symphonia is, along with the Master Chorale of South Florida and the Delray String Quartet, one of the few area cultural institutions to have emerged and thrived from the demise of the Florida Philharmonic in May … [Read more...]
ArtsPaper Interview: Conductor Eve Queler forges ahead
Eve Queler conducting. Eve Queler may perhaps be the most acclaimed conductor to lead the popular Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition in some years. The internationally renowned conductor and founding music director of American’s leading opera-in-concert organization, Opera Orchestra of New York (OONY), will be on stage at the Kravis Center at 3 p.m. Sunday.Queler has a … [Read more...]
ArtsPaper Interview: Michael Hall, artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre
Michael Hall, founding director of the Caldwell Theatre.(Illustration by Pat Crowley)In early March, the Caldwell Theatre’s founding artistic director, Michael Hall, announced that he was stepping down into retirement after 34 years at the Boca Raton nonprofit resident professional theater.Three weeks later, Hap Erstein of Palm Beach ArtsPaper sat down with Hall to discuss his … [Read more...]
The ArtsPaper Interview: James Reston Jr. on ‘Frost/Nixon’
James Reston Jr., right, with former President Richard Nixon. The man at left is unidentified.By Hap ErsteinJames Reston Jr., a former assistant to the secretary of the interior during the Johnson Administration and a respected journalist, has written 13 books, including The Conviction of Richard Nixon, his account of the broadcast interviews between the resigned but … [Read more...]