Jason Bonham. It seemed inevitable that drummer Jason Bonham would eventually put together an act paying tribute to Led Zeppelin, the band of his late father, drummer John Bonham. The primary reason that Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience didn’t launch until 2010 — a full 30 years after the senior Bonham’s death — was that the younger Bonham was the logical replacement … [Read more...]
Few surprises at 86th Oscars show
There were few surprises or upsets at Sunday evening’s 86th annual Academy Awards ceremony, which is to say that my posted predictions were pretty accurate. I called 20 of the 24 categories correctly and, if you are willing to ignore the two short film categories, it was 20 of 22. With the pool bets I made, I could afford to chip in for the pizzas that host Ellen DeGeneres … [Read more...]
A radiant evening of Renaissance music
As intriguing as the upcoming Seraphic Fire concerts with the Firebird Chamber Orchestra are likely to be, there’s still something so purely beautiful about unaccompanied Renaissance polyphony that the listener feels he is in the presence of a rare and endangered animal, one content to be radiant, beautiful and unexampled. The Miami chamber choir opened its 12th season last … [Read more...]
ABT evening beautiful but skimpy
By Tara Mitton Catao On Saturday night at the Kravis, American Ballet Theatre, one of the most outstanding ballet companies in the world, made a long overdue visit to South Florida in a program that featured a mixed repertory including Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo, Mark Morris’ Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes and the White Swan pas de deux from Act II of Swan Lake. It was a … [Read more...]
Firebird’s evening of serenades shines, enchants
The days when your basic high-end party for the swells featured fresh music by a talented local composer are long gone, but the music itself lives, and in a good performance, can go some way toward reviving a lost era of graceful living. The Firebird Chamber Orchestra’s current program of serenades does just that, with refreshingly buoyant and engaging performances of early … [Read more...]