It’s a one-off recital during a time when South Florida is beginning to swelter and all the snowbirds have gone home, but violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’s appearance tonight will include two new pieces of music that she’ll be championing all this year. Meyers, a native of Southern California, came to prominence at age 11 with two appearances on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show (she … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Feb. 14-16
Art: Everyone loves a mystery, and it’s even better when it involves a work of art. This Sunday, scholar Robert Simon will explain how he identified a Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, painted for France’s King Louis XII and last seen in the collection of that noted aesthete, King Charles I of England, in 1649, the year he went to the chopping block. It did make one … [Read more...]
Merling Trio persuasive in Dvorak at Duncan
As the cellist Bruce Uchimura said, the world is a better place for having once had Antonin Dvořák in it. Uchimura, a member of the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Merling Trio, offered his tribute to the great Czech Romantic composer during the trio’s appearance Wednesday afternoon on the Classical Café series at the Duncan Theatre’s Stage West. On the second half of that program, the … [Read more...]