For 14 summers now, René Reder has joined her colleagues in the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival as they transform a South Florida July into a sonic oasis. And the violist wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s some of the most satisfying playing of my life,” said Reder, whose fulltime job is as a member of the viola section in the Alabama Symphony in Birmingham. “I can’t … [Read more...]
Tenor trio Forte wows Boca festival audience
By Dale King Not since Hurricanes Frances, Jeanne and Wilma has a trio of any kind hit Boca Raton with the impact of Forte, the power-voiced operatic tenors whose nearly two-hour show Saturday night wrapped up the eighth annual Festival of the Arts Boca on a high and mighty note. The men with stellar, soaring voices played to four standing ovations and performed two encores — … [Read more...]
Composer Zwilich’s Septet to get local premiere Sunday
In the life of every creative artist, there must one day come The Leap. It's that moment of mental alchemy when all the bits and pieces the artist is trying to fit together suddenly come together, often while the creator is sleeping, paying bills or doing something else entirely other than concentrate on the work. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich demonstrates by singing, in a sweet, … [Read more...]