Festival Schedule

Festival Schedule

 

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Friday, February 29
07 : 00 PM

Boca Bacchanal – Vintner’s Dinners at Private Homes.


*The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents: Degas In Bronze:  The Complete Sculptures
January 25th - April 27th, 2008  Degas in Bronze offers a rare opportunity to view 73 sculptures cast in bronze from Degas' original composite and wax models. Also being presented at this time is Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection. Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection has been curated by Alastair Duncan, the world's foremost authority on Tiffany glass and the author of numerous books on the decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries.  A fully-llustrated exhibiton catalogue authored by Mr. Duncan, will be published by the Museum, and will present the entire Holtzman Collection in print for the first time.
 
Saturday, March 01
06 : 00 PM

Boca Bacchanal – Wine Auction The Boca Raton Resort & Club.

08 : 00 PM

Gipsy Kings - a Festival concert presented by Fantasma Productions

Sunday, March 02
12 : 00 PM

Boca Bacchanal – Grand Tasting – on the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater Green.

Monday, March 03
07 : 00 PM

Boca Ballet Theatre
Les Sylphides, music by Frederyk Chopin
A "romantic reverie", Les Sylphides is composed of a suite of dances in the romantic atmosphere of a moonlit park.  The sylphides (magical figures) dance with the "poet" in search of the ideal.
Pre-show event- film: The Impressionists: Degas (2006)

FREE EVENT

 

 

Tuesday, March 04
06 : 00 PM

Family Programming (TBD)

Wednesday, March 05
07 : 00 PM

Family Musik with Rob Kapilow
Boca Raton Philharmonic Symphonia
Rob Kapilow, conductor and host, PickleShoes Dance Company
This musical fantasy is about a disobediant boy who leaves the safety of the garden for the unknown world of the meadow, cleverly conquering the danger he encounters. 
FREE EVENT

 

Friday, March 07
07 : 30 PM

Literary Event with Doris Kearns Goodwin – Lecture "Presidents at War"

Saturday, March 08
05 : 00 PM

Literary Event with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend – Lecture. 

08 : 00 PM

Russian National Orchestra – with Lang Lang , piano, Claus Peter Flor, conducting

*Overture to Ruslan and Lydumila - Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
* Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, CT. 48 - Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
   Lang Lang, piano
* Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 -Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Sunday, March 09
05 : 00 PM

Literary Event with Joyce Carol Oates, David Ebershoff  – and Raymond Smith. Topic – "Writers and Editors on Writing and Editing".

07 : 30 PM

Pat Metheny Trio with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez.

Monday, March 10
07 : 30 PM

Literary Event with Joyce Carol Oates – Reading and Reflections.

Tuesday, March 11
07 : 30 PM

The 5 Browns, 5 pianos
* Home Blues from American in Paris, George Gershwin/Jeffery Shumway,The 5 Browns
*
Suite No. 2, Op. 7, Sergei Rachmaninoff,
Desirae and Deondra Brown
*
Retrato de Alfredo Gobbi (A Portrait of Alfredo Gobbi), Astor Piazzolla,
Ryan Brown
*
The Swan from Carnival of the Animals, Camille Saint-Saens/Leopold Godowsky,
  
   Melody Brown
*
Fantasia on "Dives and Lazarus," Ralph Vaughan Williams/Greg Anderson,
  
The 5 Browns
*
Grande Tarantelle, Op. posth. 67, Louis Moreau Gottschalk,
Gregory and Ryan Brown
*
Gretchen am Spinnrade (Margaret at the Spinning Wheel), Franz Scubert/Franz Lizst,
  
Ryan Brown
*
Embraceable You,  George Gershwin/Earl Wild,
Desirae, Brown
*
Aunt Hagar's Blues, W.C. Handy,
Gregory Brown
A Conversation with The 5 Browns
* 18th Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, S. Rachmaninoff/Greg Anderson
* Vers La Flamme (Into the Flame), Poeme, Op. 72, Alexander Scriabin,
Melody Brown
*
Ich liebe dich (I love Thee), Op. 41, No. 3, Edvard Grieg, 
Deondra Brown
* Toccata, Op. 11, Sergei Prokofieff,
Gregory Brown
* Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque, Claude Debussy/Greg Anderson,
   Desirae, Deondra and Melody Brown
*
The Firebired (from the 1911 version), Igor Stravinsky/Jeffery Schumway, 
The 5 Browns

Wednesday, March 12
07 : 30 PM

Russian National Orchestra  with  Conrad Tao,  piano and Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway, flute, Teodor Currentzis, conducting
* Le nozze di Figaro K. 492 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1761-1791)
* The Magic Flutes - David Overton (b. 1942)
    
Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes
*
Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1761-1791)
     Conrad Tao, piano
* Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 314 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1761-1791)
     Sir James Galway, flute
*
Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - Sergei Prokofiev (1840-1893)

Thursday, March 13
07 : 30 PM

An Evening with Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Duets.

Friday, March 14
07 : 30 PM

Russian National Orchestra with Joshua Bell, violin and Teodor Currentzis, conducting.
* Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture in B minor - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
* Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
     
Joshua Bell, violin
*
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Saturday, March 15
04 : 00 PM

Literary Event with Ann Patchett - and Renée Fleming Discuss the "Mutual Admiration Society of Ann Patchett and Renée Fleming".

08 : 00 PM

Latin Symphonic & Dance Night with Tiempo Libre and the Lynn University Philharmonia - Raphael Jimenez, conductor. Featuring the Florida Premiere of Rumba Sinfonica by Ricardo Lorenz, composed in collaboration with Jorge Gomez.

Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez - Rumba Sinfonica
Second half of program to be announced from stage

 

 

Sunday, March 16
07 : 30 PM

Closing concert with Russian National Orchestra, with Renée Fleming, soprano, and Teodor Currentzis conducting
*Overture to La Forza del Destino, Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
  Arrigo! Ah, parli a un core, from I Fespri Sicillani
* Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
* Poveri, fiori, from Andriana Lecouvreur, Francesco Cilea (1861-1950)
* Ebben?... Ne andro lontana from La Wally, Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893)
* Overutre to La Gazza Ladra, Giochino Rossini (1792-1868)
* O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
   Vissi d'arte, from
Tosca
* Fanfare for the Common Man, Aaron Copeland (1900-1990)
* Medley: (Two Rivers) Shenendoah and the Water is Wide Traditional, Lee Ritenour, arr. David Grusin
* Chicago Suite, John Kander (b.1927)
   A Letter from Sullivan Ballou
* Carousel Waltz, Richard Rodgers ( 1902-1979)
* So in Love, from Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter ( 1891-1964)
* Summertime, from Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin ( 1898-1937)

 

 

 

 

 

Festival events will be presented in the Festival Tent - a clearspan tent with a floor area of 35,000 square feet (an area equal to the area of the Amphitheater Concert Green or 3/4 of the area of a football field.)

Program subject to change