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.
