The Festival Beat

How George Gershwin was tricked into composing one of the most important American works of all time.

How much do you know about the multi-talented Isaac Mizrahi?

Over the centuries, flamenco has developed a complexity and richness that can be difficult to encapsulate, and certainly to explain. There are numerous styles (palos) of Flamenco music and dance, but what perhaps most sets it apart is its emotional intensity, the spontaneity of the dancers, and the way the singer interprets the words.

Richard Blanco is many things: author, poet, playright, recipient of 2021 National Humanities Medal, professor, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Education Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets, Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County, Cuban-American, Floridian, Down-Easter. And he will bring all of these things in the melting pot that is himself when he reads and speaks, as part of Festival Boca’s Authors & Ideas series, on March 7.

It seems that Nicholas Thompson may be in the running for the title of The Most Interesting Man in the World.

The mission of the Future Stars Performing Arts Competition is to give South Florida’s most talented high school and middle school performers a professional quality production worthy of their amazing talent. It is the largest event of its kind in the Southeast United States.

That music affects our brains, mood, and emotions in often inexplicable ways is something we have known instinctively since the dawn of consciousness. But over the last few decades, advances in neuroscience, psychology, and brain science have been spurring symphonies of research and findings to help us understand the how and the why of it all.

How can one even begin to do In Depth justice to an artist like Renée Fleming? One of our country’s most acclaimed artist’s, she is a five-time Grammy winner (18 nominations), a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, a Kennedy Center Honor (just weeks ago), the Crystal Award from the WEF in Davos, France’s Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit, Sweden's Polar Music Prize and honorary membership in England's Royal Academy of Music.

Workparenting was built on Daisy Dowling's interviews with thousands of parents about how they had finessed this or that part of the dual roles of parent and worker.

Pathbreaking film, allegorical fable, heart-stopping thriller – no matter how you slice it, JAWS is in a league of its own.

Sometimes a simple truth can also be a huge understatement. For instance, asserting that Henry Mancini was one of the most prolific, influential composers of the twentieth century.