By Lucy Lazarony The ninth annual Festival of the Arts Boca will feature its own version of the 3 Bs — Beethoven, bluegrass and Bernstein — as well as a lineup of authors that includes four Pulitzer Prize winners. The festival, which will take place March 6-15 at Mizner Park in Boca Raton, will begin with a showing of the film West Side Story with live orchestra and close … [Read more...]
Authentic bluegrass, by way of Switzerland
The decline of major recording labels may be the most famous byproduct of the online music retail and radio booms. But another result has been the cross-pollination of genres, the categorical descriptions that were largely created for now-dwindling record stores and musical airwaves in the first place. A versatile case in point is the Kruger Brothers, a North … [Read more...]