WEST PALM BEACH —Palm Beach Atlantic University’s biennial concert series of new music, the Frontwave Festival, begins tonight at the college in West Palm Beach and runs through Saturday. The special guest for the festival is composer John Fitz Rogers, who teaches composition at the University of South Carolina. He holds degrees from Oberlin, Cornell and the Yale School of … [Read more...]
Festival of the Arts Boca’s 10th season gets underway
What to see first is the biggest challenge facing those planning to take advantage of the full roster of events at this year’s 10th Festival of the Arts Boca, which opens Friday in Mizner Park and runs through March 16. Conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos will open the festival by conducting the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra from the University of Miami’s Frost School of … [Read more...]
Arts buzz: Brief notes in local arts
Flagler Museum director Blades retiring after 21 years PALM BEACH — John Blades, executive director of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, will retire at the end of this month, the museum said. Blades has been the museum’s executive director since June 1995, and is credited with overseeing the revitalization of the museum, which began life as Henry Flagler’s Whitehall mansion. … [Read more...]
Jewish film, poetry festivals return for another year
Next week brings two favorite cultural festivals back to Palm Beach County — the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, now in its 12th year, and the Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, which is in its 26th year. Each brings its own perspective and interpretation to two different but similar art forms — contemporary poets and their oeuvre and contemporary filmmakers and … [Read more...]
Comfort ye: A calendar of holiday music and dance for December
One minute it’s Thanksgiving, and the next, you’re stocking up on champagne to welcome the new year. The holidays go by in an instant, but we all try to steal a little time for the ceremony of the season, for its sounds, sights, aromas and traditions. Finding that time is difficult, especially with the growth in the past few years of South Florida’s arts season, which has … [Read more...]
Joshua Bell, Fareed Zakaria to lead 10th Festival of the Arts Boca
By Steven J. Smith BOCA RATON — The 10th annual Festival of the Arts Boca promises a compelling line-up of international superstars, thinkers, authors and performers, according to festival chairman and co-executive producer Charlie Siemon, who unveiled the season Friday at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center. “The 10th Annual Festival of the Arts Boca will be our most … [Read more...]
New Old School Square CEO has big plans for Delray Beach arts center
By Steven J. Smith Beating out nearly 100 applicants for the job, Rob Steele was recently chosen to take the reins at Old School Square — formerly the Delray Beach Center for the Arts — as its new president and CEO. Steele, 57, is originally from Flint, Mich. He earned an undergraduate degree in business administration from Adrian College and his master’s in business … [Read more...]
Van Gogh, Degas at the Norton; student film contest; arts grants for the Kravis
It’s about to get crowded at The Norton Museum of Art. The exchange initiative that brought Monet’s Nymphéas to its walls last year is back with two French 19th-century masterpieces showing Thursday through April 17. A reciprocal loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh’s The Poplars at Saint-Rémy (Les peupliers sur la Colline) was painted in 1889 while the … [Read more...]
News briefs: WLRN launches classical channel; Harid gets $250K grant; Kravis to install organ
MIAMI — Radio station WLRN will launch a 24-hour classical music station on its HD-2 radio channel Aug. 10, officials said Friday. The “Classical 24” station will replace the current “Alternative News and Talk” station at WLRN’s HD-2 channel, and is being started to fill the gap left by the departure last month of Classical South Florida from the airwaves. “We understand the … [Read more...]
NPR’s Ulaby to speak on arts journalism; Maltz launches young professional training
FORT LAUDERDALE — Neda Ulaby, arts and culture reporter for National Public Radio, will speak June 24 to the closing session of the Broward County Cultural Divison’s Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute. Ulaby, whose talk is called “Arts Journalism in a Fractured Cultureverse,” reports on arts, digital media, entertainment and cultural trends for NPR’s Arts Desk. Born in Amman, … [Read more...]