When the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival got started back in July of 1992, its organizers were pleasantly surprised to see so many people in that first audience at the Duncan Theatre. Perhaps that will be the case when the festival looks back on its first fall series, which opened earlier this month at Lynn University and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lake Worth. The … [Read more...]
At the Four Arts: Three music reviews
Editor’s note: Here are late reviews from three concerts at the Society of the Four Arts. Technical difficulties prevented them from being posted earlier. Nordwest Deutsche Philharmonic (March 14) Visiting orchestras often come to our balmy shores this time of year; 20-city tours exhaust the best of them, riding on buses around the Florida peninsula. It was not so with the … [Read more...]
At the Flagler: Two standout string quartets
Editor’s note: Here are two late reviews of recent concerts at the Flagler Museum: The Moscow String Quartet (Feb. 21) Sitting in the magnificence of Henry Flagler’s Gilded Age mansion, Whitehall, I was struck by the ironic contrast of listening to a string quartet that began life in the old USSR. This was the Moscow String Quartet, four women whose exceptionally high … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 19-21
Art: As the summer winds down (though not heat-wise) and students return to the classroom, the Norton Museum offers a little exhibit put together by its five summer interns. Drawing from the museum’s own collections, the interns – who include college and high schools students – chose 16 European prints from the 16th to the 19th centuries, including works by Mary Cassatt and … [Read more...]
Concerts in brief: Rare Taneyev, lively Mahler
Editor’s note: Here are three brief reviews from local concerts over the past weeks. Amernet Quartet (Oct. 24, Josephine Leiser Center, Fort Lauderdale) The Russian composer Sergei Taneyev has been largely overlooked in the United States, but he had much to offer, and in the first concert of the Chameleon Musicians chamber music series, listeners had a rare chance to hear … [Read more...]