By Tara Mitton Catao Simple clothing and straightforward staging, bathed in vibrant lighting, set the mood Thursday at the Kravis Center for an exuberant foray into the world of Savion Glover and his virtuosic tap dancing. At the ripe age of 39 (and after having performed professionally for almost three decades), Glover is recognized as one of the most famous tap dancers in … [Read more...]
Exuberant Dohnanyi wraps chamber fest’s 22nd summer
A work of teenage exuberance was served up with high spirits and full-on late Romanticism on Sunday as the 22nd season of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival’s summer season came to a close at Delray Beach’s Crest Theatre. The very first published opus of Ernst von Dohnányi (or Ernö Dohnányi, to give him his Hungarian name), a powerful Brahmsian piano quintet, occupied the … [Read more...]
Exuberant approach enlivens Euclid Quartet concert at Duncan
For all the praise that has been lavished on Franz Schubert’s shade for the past two centuries, his skill at string quartet writing is sometimes underappreciated. The earliest of his quartets are often dismissed as half-successful attempts at imitating Beethoven and Haydn, but I’ve yet to hear any quartet of his that didn’t contain some substantial moments of freshness and … [Read more...]