George Hamilton, 76, star of stage, screen and impeccable tan, flies into South Florida this week to appear at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival this Friday evening (7:15 p.m., Nov. 13, at the Sunrise Civic Center) with writer-director Rosemary Rodriguez to introduce their new movie, Silver Skies, co-starring such familiar, if aged, faces as Valerie Perrine, … [Read more...]
ArtsPaper Interview: Jon Robertson makes a difference at Lynn
It 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 music at UCLA, one of the largest music schools in the country. … [Read more...]
ArtsPaper Interview: Alexander Platt, conductor
The Boca Raton Symphonia is, along with the Master Chorale of South Florida and the Delray String Quartet, one of the few area cultural institutions to have emerged and thrived from the demise of the Florida Philharmonic in May 2003. Since October 2007, the Boca Symphonia has been led by Alexander Platt, 43, a New York-born musician now resident in Chicago who, in the … [Read more...]