After the ailing Claude Debussy finished his Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp in 1915, he wrote to a friend that the music reminded him of an “antique” Debussy, writing as he had done 20 years before in the Nocturnes. Not antique, perhaps, so much as distilled to its purest essence, as a performance of this work showed last weekend in the final concerts of the Palm Beach … [Read more...]
Rustic Brahms and engaging American Romanticism in chamber fest’s Week 1
Johannes Brahms had a healthy respect for the music of the past, and probably would have made a formidable professional musicologist had he chosen to go that route. Even in his earlier works there is an engagement with older forms that would bear fruit throughout his compositional career, until his very last work, a series of 11 austerely beautiful organ chorale preludes based … [Read more...]
Women-oriented short films play Delray in Lunafest
Lunafest, a traveling film festival established in 2000 by Luna, the “whole nutrition” line of snack bars for women, comes to the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach on Friday for a one-night-only screening. In conjunction with the Junior League of Boca Raton, the event is a fundraiser for the Junior League and for the Breast Cancer Fund, which is dedicated to eliminating … [Read more...]