When Joshua Habermann looks into the upturned 100 or so faces of the Master Chorale of South Florida, he sees a neighborhood. “Choirs are the ultimate community. There’s no question that singing brings people together,” Habermann said. “I look out at that choir on Monday nights and I see lawyers and nurses, and professional musicians, people who are unemployed, retired people, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Nov. 13-14
Art: The art of Raymond Pettibon is intimately tied to the punk culture of California, which perhaps isn’t surprising considering that his brother, Greg Ginn, founded Black Flag. This weekend at Florida Atlantic University, the college hosts Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years 1978-86, featuring drawings and designs done for Black Flag and other bands including Sonic Youth and the … [Read more...]
The View From Home 15: New releases on DVD
The Magician (Criterion) Standard list price: $29.95 Release date: Oct. 12 Ask 10 film scholars to name the 10 most important Ingmar Bergman films, and it’s quite likely The Magician wouldn’t make any of their lists. This is both a testament to the director’s career-long consistency in producing masterpieces and perhaps a grave oversight. Where anointed art-cinema benchmarks … [Read more...]
Concerts in brief: Rare Taneyev, lively Mahler
Editor’s note: Here are three brief reviews from local concerts over the past weeks. Amernet Quartet (Oct. 24, Josephine Leiser Center, Fort Lauderdale) The Russian composer Sergei Taneyev has been largely overlooked in the United States, but he had much to offer, and in the first concert of the Chameleon Musicians chamber music series, listeners had a rare chance to hear … [Read more...]
‘12 Angry Men’ a tribute to democracy, director says
As two-time Tony Award winner Frank Galati (The Grapes of Wrath, Ragtime) keeps in mind, “angry” is the 1954 Reginald Rose jury deliberation play’s middle name. Twelve Angry Men, which opens this evening at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, is more than half a century old, but it is also extremely timely. “Now everyone seems to feel that this is a climate of anger. That the entire … [Read more...]
Peter Nero, still exploring the intersection of musical styles
Born in Brooklyn in 1934, pops pianist Peter Nero (né Bernard Nierow) began his formal musical education at the age of 7. At 14, he was accepted to New York City’s prestigious High School of Music and Art and won a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music. A two-time Grammy award winner and 10-time nominee, Nero has released 68 albums over a career of 50 years. His early … [Read more...]
For Adami, everything is allegory
They may look like comic book art, but there is a perturbing sadness to the world that Valerio Adami creates in his large-scale paintings, 23 of which are currently on view until Jan. 9 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in a retrospective exhibit that spans four decades of the Italian artist’s work. The exhibit is merely a glimpse into Adami’s vast oeuvre, which has been shaped … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 30-Nov. 2
Film: The long waited third shoe in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest -- has just dropped locally, and it snaps the trilogy back into form, paring down the third weighty, introspective novel about Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) into an involving, fast-paced … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in jazz
South Florida's creative jazz concert calendar is always a case of feast or famine, and there's usually more of a feast south of Palm Beach County. That's partly because there's a stronger jazz nightclub presence in the Fort Lauderdale and Miami areas than on the practically nonexistent West Palm Beach scene. And while the Kravis Center is every bit the equal of the performing … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in books
The economy may still look scary, but for South Florida’s four major literary festivals, there will be no double-dip recession. Learning from last year’s challenges, each plans robust programs for the serious and casual book lover over the coming season. Take Miami Book Fair International (Nov. 14-21), the region’s oldest and biggest literary festival, and the first one on … [Read more...]