Music: Any number of fine pianists visits South Florida each year during the season, and a series of lesser-known but still formidable players are on hand each winter to perform recitals at Lynn University in Boca Raton. But Saturday night, one of the best pianists of an older generation, Peter Serkin, will join that series in a recital at Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall. His … [Read more...]
Four Arts to offer overview of paintings by Winston Churchill
In 1947, Winston Churchill, then age 73, wrote about his dead father appearing to him and the imaginary conversation that unfolded between the two. When his father asks him what he is doing, Churchill answers him he is trying to copy an old portrait of his. Later on, the father inquiries how the son makes a living. “Not, surely, by these,” he says, pointing at several … [Read more...]
Actor Cox takes on the daunting mantle of ‘Churchill’
What do Albert Finney, Rod Taylor, Timothy Spall, Richard Burton, John Lithgow and now Brian Cox have in common? They have all played British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on film. In Cox’s case, he is in a new film called simply Churchill, opening in South Florida this Friday. The classically trained, Scottish-born actor looks a great deal like the pudgy politician who … [Read more...]