The Palm Beach Symphony’s concert Jan. 28 at Mar-a-Lago got a late start owing to the breakdown on the road of the principal horn player’s car. Champagne and hors d’oeuvres were served to concertgoers while they listened to the children’s orchestra from The Conservatory School at North Palm Beach, a new performing arts school, under a tent on a chilly night at Donald Trump’s … [Read more...]
Strong singing stands out at fine FGO ‘Tosca’
Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca is, with the exception of the one-act Il Tabarro, the most veristic of the Italian composer’s works, and it needs a lot of good red blood to make it work. I don’t mean literal blood, of course, though there could have been some in several spots in the opera Saturday night at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, but the figurative kind: A … [Read more...]
Affleck’s ‘The Town’ not enough out of the ordinary
If you’re not wary of the clichés of the heist movie by now – the well-laid plans gone violently awry, the criminal with a heart of gold who wants out of the racket after this “one last job,” the cop always on his tail with superhuman relentlessness – then you’ve managed to remain blissfully sheltered from one of Hollywood’s most exhausted formulas. Every now and then, a movie … [Read more...]