A pitcher by Ellen Bates.Art: Today and tomorrow, the Ceramic League of the Palm Beaches is holding its annual holiday sale and exhibit. On display will be affordable, handmade art that is ideal for gifts, including pottery, sculpture, fused glass and mixed media. The Ceramic League is a nonprofit artist group dedicated to the advancement of its members as well as promoting … [Read more...]
Music review: Works by Tower, Vine enliven Atzinger recital
Christopher Atzinger.By Greg StepanichFor an instrument that has been such a central part of music-making for the past 200 years, it’s interesting to hear that there are new compositional things that can still be done with the piano.In his Piano Lovers recital Sunday afternoon at the Steinway Gallery in Boca Raton, the pianist Christopher Atzinger, a St. Olaf College professor … [Read more...]
Music review: Cellist Jaffe elegant, polished in Boca recital
Cellist Claudio Jaffe.By Greg StepanichHearing a good chamber music recital in a small room out of season is comforting: While our local world is focusing on other things than the classical realm, it's heartening to know that fine musicians are still at it, working away and making admirable art.This past Sunday at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Boca Raton, the Brazilian-born … [Read more...]
Music review: Lisitsa impressive in big-sonata Boca recital
Valentina Lisitsa.By Greg StepanichBOCA RATON -- "Did Beethoven write that just to drive pianists crazy?" a man in the audience asked Valentina Lisitsa on Wednesday night just after the pianist had finished taking her listeners through Beethoven's momentous Hammerklavier Sonata."He was crazy," a woman in the audience said in reply, and in truth the 29th piano sonata of … [Read more...]