Art: As the summer winds down (though not heat-wise) and students return to the classroom, the Norton Museum offers a little exhibit put together by its five summer interns. Drawing from the museum’s own collections, the interns – who include college and high schools students – chose 16 European prints from the 16th to the 19th centuries, including works by Mary Cassatt and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Striking Impressions also features pieces by Durer and Manet, making this a good one-stop exhibit to track very different approaches to this craft. Catch it now, as the Norton will be closing for much of September for a gallery reinstallation; after it reopens Oct. 1, the exhibit will only be around another eight days. Admission to the museum is $12. Call 832-5196 or visit www.norton.org.
Music: Just like that, Delray Beach’s Arts Garage has added the role of classical music concert producer to its fledgling resume. Its semimonthly jazz concerts have been filling the hall at the garage on First Street, but this weekend, it’s two classical concerts back to back. The first, as mentioned earlier this week, pairs violinist Tomas Cotik and pianist Tao Lin in an all-Schubert concert Saturday night, and the second, on Sunday evening, brings the first appearance here of the South Florida Symphony’s chamber group. The Fort Lauderdale-based orchestra, which has been controversial for its tardiness in paying its musicians, also plans several appearances this coming season at Old School Square. On Sunday, pianist Jeffery Chappell is joined by violinist Alla Krolevich, violist Kenneth Martinson and cellist Claudio Jaffe in the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor (Op. 60) and the beautiful one-movement Piano Quartet of Gustav Mahler, a student work written when the composer was 16. Tickets for the 6 p.m. performance are $35 and are available through http://artsgarage.eventbright.com.
Also on Sunday, Keith Paulson-Thorp’s Camerata del Ré Baroque ensemble returns to its home at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Delray Beach for a concert of music from 17th– and 18th-century Germany, and as usual, it’s a concert made up entirely of fresh, off-the-beaten-track programming. The program includes a string sonata by Johann Rosenmuller, a suite for flute and strings by J.K.F. Fischer, a trio for two flutes and viola d’amore by Karl Friedrich Rust, a sonata for two flutes and strings by Ernst Eichner, and a quintet for flute, oboe and strings by Karl Toeschi. Soprano Karen Neal will sing Johann Hasse’s cantata Quel vago seno, and be joined by soprano Anita Smith in two of the Little Spiritual Concertos of Heinrich Schütz (Herr, ich hoffe darauf and Verbum caro factum est). The concert also includes Samuel Scheidt’s canzon for strings on O Nachbar Roland. Tickets for the 4 p.m. concert are $15-$18. Call 278-6003 for more information.
Meanwhile, country favorites Rascal Flatts return to the area Saturday night for a concert at the Cruzan Amphitheatre, where they’ll be joined by Easton Corbin, Justin Moore and Sara Evans. The trio of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney have had one of those wildly popular touring careers as well as having repeat chart success, and their audience is much wider than just hardcore country fans. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show range from $35.25 to $58.75 and are available through Live Nation/Ticketmaster.
Film: After the largely uninspired parade of romantic comedies we have seen this summer, you might understandably think that there is nothing new or unpredictable to be said for the genre. But you would be wrong, as a quirky little French film called The Names of Love (Le Nom des Gens) proves. In it, perky Sara Forestier plays a free spirit who makes a point of bedding right-wing stuffed shirts in order to convert them to her liberal politics. She guesses wrong, however, when she encounters Jacques Gamblin, playing an uptight Jewish medical examiner whose ancestors were Holocaust survivors. The two of them provide the tongue-in-cheek narration for this life-affirming tale which has been understandably compared to the neurotic comic stylings of Woody Allen. In area theaters beginning this weekend.
Theater: Davie’s Promethean Theatre rarely ventures into the realm of musicals, and when it does the results are bound to be unconventional. This weekend it opens Song of the Living Dead, the saga of a young couple who stumble onto a full-fledged zombie attack. “Oh yeah, that again,” we hear you saying. But this is only the show’s second production ever, following the world premiere at Atlanta’s Dad’s Garage. Margaret M. Ledford directs a cast that includes Christopher A. Kent, Noah Levine and Lindsey Forgey, with a script and score by Matt Horgan, Travis Sharp and Eric Frampton. Tickets available through Sept. 4 at https://web.ovationtx.com. On the Nova Southeastern University campus.