Sara Bareilles.Pop music: Fresh off her third Grammy nomination, announced Wednesday in Los Angeles, Sara Bareilles plays Boca Raton’s Mizner Park on Saturday night on a bill with Michael Franti and Spearhead, the always barefoot social-justice singer’s dub-ska outfit. The two acts are playing as part of WRMF-97.9 FM’s annual No Sno … [Read more...]
ArtsPaper Interview: Jon Robertson making a difference at Lynn
Jon Robertson.(Illustration by Pat Crowley) By Greg StepanichIt is perhaps not generally realized in the wider world of area classical music that Palm Beach County has a thriving music conservatory, that it is in the middle of building a $15 million concert hall that will be a major addition to the area’s art scene, and that its dean, Jon Robertson, used to run the school of … [Read more...]
Music review: Sierra shows star quality with Lynn Philharmonia
Soprano Nadine Sierra. By Greg StepanichBOCA RATON -- One way to measure the still-developing art of the young soprano Nadine Sierra is this:After her climactic high B-flats at the end of Un bel di, Sierra waited out Puccini's brief postlude not as a singer waiting for the orchestra to finish or as a happy musician smiling at the audience. Instead, she was staring straight … [Read more...]