March 9 marked the third concert in a series of conductor tryouts for the post of Atlantic Classical Orchestra. This time it was the turn of Rei Hotoda, associate conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra and a woman with credentials equal to those of the two men heard and seen on the podium so far this season. She opened her program with Mozart’s Symphony No. 32 (in G, K. … [Read more...]
Third Sunshine Music & Blues fest strong and satisfying
Husband-and-wife guitarists Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, co-leaders of the Tedeschi Trucks Band and founders of the Sunshine Music & Blues Festival, put together an impressive and varied lineup to precede their closing set during a Sunday stop at Mizner Park Ampitheatre in Boca Raton, and got relatively cool, clear weather to go with it. A capacity crowd, which slowly … [Read more...]
Sundays: In memory yet green
By Myles Ludwig The mist of history swirls still around the life and especially, the death of JFK. Fifty years later, that mist has not dissipated for those of us who were accidental eyewitnesses-once-removed; it refuses to leave. He is very much alive in our collective imagination. He had been born a year before my father. My daughter, born a few days earlier than his death … [Read more...]