Pianist Frederic Chiu.By Greg StepanichBOCA RATON -- When an orchestra wants to introduce its audience to unfamiliar repertoire, the time-honored pattern is usually to offer only one such piece and leave the rest to the workhorses.But on Sunday afternoon at the Roberts Theater, the Boca Raton Symphonia made the case for two overlooked, rarely played works, and those arguments … [Read more...]
Music 2008: A look back at classical’s most memorable
Violinist Vadim Gluzman.By Greg StepanichThe pressure of work earlier this year being what it was, I can't really offer a true "best of" list for 2008. I didn't get to enough of the concerts I wanted to see, and the ones I missed I heard good things about.So allow me to offer this list instead of some memorable performances from 2008:Vadim Gluzman, violin: Earlier this month, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks
Sean Penn (center) stars as Harvey Milk in Milk.FILM: The year-end Oscar deadline is approaching, so the studios start rolling out their prestige product, like Milk, the superb biography of openly gay San Francisco board of supervisors member Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn in an award-worthy performance and directed by Gus Van Sant in a career comeback. Opening locally on … [Read more...]