Jazz pianist and composer Hiromi. Japan native Hiromi Uehara has gained first-name recognition worldwide since moving to the United States to attend the Berklee College of Music in 1999. The 37-year-old pianist’s recording and touring career began a few years later, and has essentially been split between her 2004-2009 trio with fellow Berklee grads Tony Grey (bass) and Martin … [Read more...]
Manasse, Schwarz bring standout Mozart to Symphonia
It’s always a good day at a concert when you can hear something new in a pillar of the repertoire like Mozart. And so it was Sunday afternoon at the Roberts Theater for the season-closing concert by The Symphonia Boca Raton (though they’ll appear later this month as the orchestra for the Master Chorale of South Florida), which brought the eminent conductor Gerard Schwarz to … [Read more...]
Chioldi to bring fresh Verdi experiences to PBO’s ‘Macbeth’
It’s a common, affectionate criticism of opera to point out how fast improbable things happen in the stories the art form tells. Rodolfo and Mimi, for instance, in Puccini’s La Bohème, are strangers in a Paris apartment building who meet cute when her candle goes out, and are pledging undying love 10 minutes later. But Michael Chioldi knows differently. “Opera really is a … [Read more...]
Legendary boys’ choir to bring world flavor to Lauderdale show
By Tom Tracy Fresh off his first-ever U.S. performance earlier this week in Clearwater, the choirmaster for one of the world’s oldest boys' choirs said his upcoming concert conducting for Vienna Boys Choir in Fort Lauderdale will take audiences on a little globetrotting. “We want to take people on a journey all over the world not only with European music and classical … [Read more...]
Maltz to bring movie classic a little closer (bring your poncho)
Traditionally, the first four rows of a theater are the most sought after seats, unless you are attending a show by The Flying Karamazov Brothers ― those comic jugglers of hazardous objects ― or the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Singin’ in the Rain. For audience members at the Maltz seated close to the stage will be issued waterproof ponchos to protect them during the … [Read more...]
French film lions bring weathered charm to ‘Potiche’
An alternative title of Potiche could have been Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. In this, the latest film from French directorial chameleon François Ozon, the men are the irrational ones – clingy, petulant and generally bewildered – while the film’s female protagonist, played by Catherine Deneuve, is the film’s rational, resolute, forward-thinking, confident and wholly … [Read more...]