The Miami-born composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, first woman to earn a Pulitzer Prize for music and the first woman to earn a composition doctorate at Juilliard, remains busily composing in her 70s. The part-time Pompano Beach resident’s piano concerto Shadows, which premiered in 2011, had its first Florida performances this past week on the programs of the South Florida … [Read more...]
Mizner Park crowd turns out for the Monkees
By Dale King Monkee-mania gripped Boca Raton for a couple of hours last Saturday night. The surviving three members of the Monkees — the put-together pop quartet assembled by NBC executives in the mid-1960s for a TV show designed to capitalize on the success of the Beatles flick, A Hard Day’s Night, are still performing 47 years later. The Mizner Park Amphitheater concert … [Read more...]
Elegant setting enhances richness of Beethoven
In olden days, the Elector of Cologne nurtured the young Beethoven and gave him the opportunity to play in his Bonn Court Orchestra. The nobility, back then, knew that cultivation of the arts made for a happy populace: Music-making reflected well on them. Jump to the 21st century and we find another kind of nobleman, billionaire Donald Trump, baron of all he surveys, placing … [Read more...]