Caddyshack actor, classical music trio tell the story of Americas.
Palm Beach Daily News
Fans of actor and comedian Bill Murray who saw him perform at The Society of the Four Arts on Saturday discovered two things about him: he loves classical music and can do a pretty good rendition of “Guantanamera.”
In his Americas, classical music goes hand-in-hand with any number of modern songs in a program that seeks to break down barriers between classical and popular music, between continents and cultures, and between music and the spoken word.
He took the show to Palm Beach last weekend for its global premiere, with a show at The Four Arts on Sunday, and a dress rehearsal Saturday with an audience of local teachers and first responders to the delight of fans.
Palm Beach Daily News Staff
Pianist Wu Han, a frequent musical visitor to South Florida and the co-director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, has been named artistic adviser for classical music at the Society of the Four Arts.
A Taiwan-born musician, Wu Han is an internationally known performer with numerous recordings to her credit. In addition to being artistic directors of the Lincoln Center chamber music group, she and her husband, cellist David Finckel, founded and direct the Music at Menlo summer chamber music series in Atherton, California. With this stressful pandemic year, we all understand music can bring us beauty and hope. To have art and music in our lives is what makes a civilized society, Wu Han said in a prepared statement. I am extremely honored to be associated with this distinguished organization and I look forward to many more opportunities to bring the best music to the Four Arts.”
Dale Chihuly has a reputation for creating stunning art by manipulating the mesmeric beauty and aesthetic of glass.
On Monday, The Society of the Four Arts unveiled installations of two of his works Black and Yellow Herons and Red Bulbous Reeds from his Fiori (Italian for flowers) series, which will be on view at the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden through May 2.
Although many of Chihuly s fans know him as a glass artist, his artistic career started with weaving as a primary medium.
He told the Daily News it was the beauty and power of stained-glass windows he encountered during his travels during the 1960s that moved him to start incorporating glass shards into woven tapestries while in college at the University of Washington in 1963.