Art: This is the last weekend to see Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. Landau is a philanthropist and a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States and the exhibition on display at the Norton is a selection of the more than 300 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper that Landau gifted to the … [Read more...]
Mancini legacy has new home in South Florida
Location, location, location. It's the well-known rule of real estate, but it also applies to musical institutions of higher learning. Witness the case of the Henry Mancini Institute. Founded by composer/conductor Jack Elliot in 1997 to honor its namesake Grammy-and-Oscar-winning composer (who died in 1994 of pancreatic cancer at age 70), the institute provided fully … [Read more...]