Ray Bolger, Judy Garland and Jack Haley in The Wizard of Oz.The film industry has been one of the best things ever to happen to the symphony orchestra, and tonight at the Festival of the Arts Boca, both will be together again. Restoration specialist John Guberman is bringing the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz to the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater tonight, to be screened to … [Read more...]
Music roundup: A fine young violist, two admirable quartets
Peijun Xu.(Photo by Greg Stepanich)Peijun Xu (Feb. 10, Steinway Gallery, Boca Raton)If the concertgoing world doesn’t fully appreciate the variety that a viola can bring to a recital, that won’t be the fault of Peijun Xu.The Shanghai-born musician performed two local recitals this week for the Kronberg Academy, an organization based in that German town near … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 19-22
Bjorn Lomborg in Cool It!Film: Somehow the matter of global warning has become a political football, perhaps in part because it veracity was expressed so eloquently by former Vice President Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Now comes what is essentially a rebuttal film, Cool It!, in which Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg argues that a … [Read more...]