By Dennis D. Rooney The Zimmermann’s Café Chamber Music series, modeled after the similarly named Leipzig establishment where J.S. Bach led a collegium musicum, features South Florida composers. Chamber music by five of them was heard April 29 in a concert at Frazell Hall at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lake Worth. In addition to the music, the audience, seated at … [Read more...]
Core Ensemble explores gender, mystery of ‘Mona Lisa’
Write about the Mona Lisa, and chances are some variation of the word “enigma” will be pulled out of your authorial toolbox. Although Leonardo da Vinci probably didn’t mean to make Lisa del Giocondo (née Gherardini) mysterious when he painted the cloth merchant’s wife in 1503, it has always struck viewers that way, and no doubt that has helped encourage speculation about who … [Read more...]