By Steven J. Smith BOCA RATON — The 10th annual Festival of the Arts Boca promises a compelling line-up of international superstars, thinkers, authors and performers, according to festival chairman and co-executive producer Charlie Siemon, who unveiled the season Friday at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center. “The 10th Annual Festival of the Arts Boca will be our most … [Read more...]
Chorale’s Mozart Requiem solid, but too cautious
One of the more tantalizing aspects of the career of Mozart is his work in sacred music, and that’s primarily because it feels somewhat unfulfilled. There is much great music in the Coronation Mass and even in the epistle sonatas, and choral ensembles across the land would be lost without the motet Ave verum corpus, but the finest of his sacred music was unfinished: The Mass … [Read more...]