WXEL radio becomes WPBI with close of sale to APMFORT LAUDERDALE – Classical South Florida, the American Public Media radio subsidiary, said it has completed the purchase of WXEL-90.7 FM.The Boynton Beach-based radio station’s new call letters are WPBI. The Minneapolis-based company bought WXEL radio last year from Barry University in Miami Shores for about $4 … [Read more...]
Art review: ‘Extraordinary’ apt word for Flagler’s Urban retrospective
The Ziegfeld Theatre (1926-27), designed by Joseph Urban. Demolished in 1966.By Gretel SarmientoCertain media, subjects and sizes benefit an artist more than others. And something in the creation process usually gets lost, while going from one to another. Some highlight skill while others harm it. Some encourage innovation while others enforce limits.It is … [Read more...]
Music review: Splendid Shostakovich as Enso Quartet plays Flagler
The Enso String Quartet: Richard Belcher, Melissa Reardon, John Marcus and Maureen Nelson. By Greg StepanichOne of the joys of seeing small concerts that are part of a good music series is that you get to hear not just the venerable players but the rising stars.Surely Tuesday night’s performance at Palm Beach’s Flagler Museum by the Enso String Quartet was a case of … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 7-9
A section from Idiotheim (2010), by Chris Vicini.Art: Elwa Productions, a New York-based contemporary art company with roots in West Palm Beach, returns to the city tonight to open A Connection That Binds, a show featuring work by Swedish sculptor Chris Vicini and American painter Devin Powers, at Elayne and Marvin Mordes’ Whitespace gallery on Australian … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in Palm Beach art
A soundsuit by Nick Cave, at the Norton Museum of Art.(Photo by James Prinz)By Gretel SarmientoThis coming art season is to art lovers what the 24-hour gym is to procrastinators: the end of the Excuse. If you typically shy away from museums out of fear of being bored to death, don’t.There’s plenty to choose from, which means something is bound to delight … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 8-11
John Leonard Thompson and Kim Cozort in Candida.Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new season by continuing to take the high road, giving its audience “theater to think about,” the triangular comedy Candida by the all-too-rarely produced in South Florida George Bernard Shaw. Kim Cozort stars in the title role, the wife of a “moralist and windbag” … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: ‘Spring Awakening’ set for Kravis; Classical South Florida chief mum on WXEL changes
Sarah Stevens and Trey Gerrald in Spring Awakening.(Photo by Joan Marcus)The Kravis Center’s 19th season of theater, film, music, dance and comedy will include a performance in March of Spring Awakening, the Duncan Sheik adaptation of Franz Wedekind’s play that won the Tony for best musical in 2007.In its initial run, the musical starred Lea Michele, the … [Read more...]
Art review: Flagler Museum’s tropics show intimate, inviting
Large and Small Orchids With a Beetle (1875-90), by Martin Johnson Heade.By Gretel SarmientoA "Wow!" is heard in the first room of the Flagler Museum's second-floor gallery.It's uttered in response to Martin Johnson Heade's massive The Great Florida Sunset, one of the highlights of the Flagler's winter show, New World Eden: Artist-Explorers in the American Tropics, running now … [Read more...]
Music review: Amelia Trio excellent in program of teen trios
The Amelia Piano Trio: Anthea Kreston, Rieko Aizawa and Jason Duckles.By Greg StepanichFrederic Chopin did not write much chamber music, but it's fair to say that the two major works that qualify -- the early Piano Trio and the late Cello Sonata -- have been too often overlooked.In this bicentenary year of Chopin's birth, the Connecticut-based Amelia Piano Trio is redressing … [Read more...]
Music review: Violinist Almond shines in Ravel, both Schumanns at Flagler recital
Violinist Frank Almond.By Greg StepanichThe violinist Frank Almond was equal parts artist and advocate Tuesday night as he opened the Flagler Museum's 2010 concert series, making an eloquent case for the music of Clara Schumann.Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, performed one of the German pianist's Romances for violin twice in a broad-ranging recital … [Read more...]