Grab-bags of eclectic programming, a hallmark of the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival since its inception 24 seasons ago, are always interesting in themselves, though in many cases the disparate works don’t necessarily hang together as an entity. But the second concert in its four-concert weekly series, presented last weekend at the Crest Theatre in downtown Delray Beach, had … [Read more...]
Delray SQ, Aleida deliver impressive Danielpour at Mainly Mozart
For two centuries or more, the string quartet has been the favored medium for a composer’s most intimate, profound thoughts. In his series of quartets, the American composer Richard Danielpour has explored themes of the Holocaust (No. 3, Psalms of Sorrow) and farewell (No. 6, Addio), and for his Quartet No. 7, which received its world premiere May 31 in Coral Gables at the … [Read more...]
Unsettling thriller ‘The Silence’ is impressive directorial debut
There’s something to be said for a well-done, straightforward thriller – the kind that doesn’t treat its audience like Silly Putty to be shaped and reshaped on a twisty roller coaster. Danny Boyle’s dreadful, masturbatory Trance contains a narrative puzzle so dense and disconnected that its logic doesn’t hold up to the most generous scrutiny. But, as simple marionettes in … [Read more...]