Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Only Angels Have Wings: Howard Hawks’ 1939 masterpiece (Criterion, $26.19 Blu-ray, $19.69 DVD) is set in an exoticized South American airfield, where Cary Grant’s emotionally crippled American expat runs a commercial aviation business. He’s accustomed to sending pilots off into treacherous conditions and, often, … [Read more...]
High-energy pieces do best for Lula Washington Dance Theatre
A scene from Global Village, choreographed by Lula Washington. (Photo by Eric McGinnis) By Tara Mitton Catao Could there have been a better way to start off the Lula Washington Dance Theatre’s show at the Rinker Theatre on Jan. 22 than with Michael Tomlin III tipping the brim of his hat to us and proceeding to dance to the music of Terence Blanchard? It wasn’t long before … [Read more...]
Master Chorale opens with impressive Buxtehude, Mozart
Encrusted as it is with myth and the very real act of a tragically early death for its remarkable composer, the Requiem of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is sometimes hard to see clear, even with its continued popularity. But what it represents along with the meditation on last things that its text embodies is a splendid piece of sacred composition, at least for its first half — it … [Read more...]
Hahn, New World triumphant in Mozart, Prokofiev
Here’s something we can agree on for 2014: It might be time to stop worrying so much about the future of classical music, and of the symphony orchestra. Two superlative reasons why that is came together Saturday night when the great American violinist Hilary Hahn appeared for the first time with the New World Symphony, in the Knight Concert Hall at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 14-16
Art: This is the last weekend to catch Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture From the Victoria and Albert Museum, showing through Sunday at the Society of the Four Arts. This national touring collection of 60 alabaster panels and sculpture from the 15th and 16th centuries is the work of anonymous artisans who created devotional pieces for aristocrats and … [Read more...]