Jazz pianist and composer Hiromi. Japan native Hiromi Uehara has gained first-name recognition worldwide since moving to the United States to attend the Berklee College of Music in 1999. The 37-year-old pianist’s recording and touring career began a few years later, and has essentially been split between her 2004-2009 trio with fellow Berklee grads Tony Grey (bass) and Martin … [Read more...]
Powerful visions from women modernists at the Norton
Red Flower (1919), by Georgia O’Keeffe. By April Klimley The Norton’s exhibition of Four Women Modernists in New York is full of surprises. Of course, many people will visit it to see Georgia O’Keeffe’s work, especially her Jack-in-the-Pulpit series. But you are in for an additional treat at the exhibition when you examine the work of three other New York women modernists … [Read more...]
Powerful Prokofiev, middling Rachmaninov from Jerusalem SO
By Robert Croan There was a sense of intended internationalism and ecumenism about the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra’s Feb. 25 performance on the Broward Center Classical Series. At the start, the orchestra, conducted by Russian-born, American-trained Dmitry Yablonsky, played The Star-Spangled Banner followed by the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. The repertory was … [Read more...]
Powerful Prokofiev, Bernstein from Boston Brass, PB Symphony
The quintet known as Boston Brass — two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba — joined the Palm Beach Symphony on Monday at the Flagler Museum for two memorable pieces dedicated to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: one by Prokoviev, the other by Bernstein. Devoid of its own brass section of 12 players, Palm Beach Symphony fielded strings and percussion only. What an irony: In the … [Read more...]
Letter from Bard: Powerful production makes good case for ‘The Wreckers’
The Bard (College) Summerscape Festival at Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., has gained fame for digging up old operas and breathing new life into them. Dame Ethel Smyth’s 1906 opera, The Wreckers, ended its five-performance run in the magnificent Frank Gehry Theatre on Aug. 2, selling out to full houses. Leon Botstein, the artistic director and conductor of Summerscape, revived … [Read more...]
Community theater: Gritty, powerful ‘Cabaret’ closes LW Playhouse season
By Dale King If you’ve never seen the musical Cabaret, you still have time to catch the show at Lake Worth Playhouse before this well-tooled performance about sordid pre-war Berlin closes with a matinee Sunday. And if you’re already seen Cabaret, you are strongly advised — no, make that urged — to return. The Lake Avenue venue wraps up its 2014-2015 season with a production … [Read more...]
Powerful ‘I and You’ at Arts Garage saves a surprise for last
The second shoe to drop in Theatre at Arts Garage’s “Celebration of Women’s Voices” season is Lauren Gunderson’s compact, crafty two-hander, I and You, which arrives with the badge of this year’s $25,000 Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. Reviewers, perhaps more than civilian theatergoers, enjoy being surprised and Gunderson more than obliges on … [Read more...]
Powerful Brahms, Kodaly for ACO’s opener
Celebrating 25 years of music-making, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, a fine, chamber-sized orchestra of 41 players, came to the Eissey Campus Theatre of Palm Beach Gardens State College from its Fort Pierce headquarters Tuesday to give the first of its four concerts scheduled there. The orchestra’s stated mission is to broaden its outreach, and by using an all purpose name … [Read more...]
A.I.M.’s ‘Pavement’ timely, powerful art
By Tara Mitton Catao Kyle Abraham took careful aim at gun violence and suppression in his powerful and intimate portrayal of life in the historically black Pittsburgh neighborhoods of East Liberty, Homewood and the Hill District where he grew up. In a short time, Abraham has established himself as an award-winning choreographer (last year, he received a so-called “genius … [Read more...]
Oliveira powerful in Beethoven with Judd and Symphonia
The American violinist Elmar Oliveira, gold medal winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia in 1978, has been assiduously working on raising his local profile in the past several years, having made a mark for himself on the national and international scenes since then. A part-time resident of Jensen Beach and a teacher at Lynn University in Boca Raton, he has made … [Read more...]